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Front Yard

The front of the same brick ranch as the backyard plan, laid out from drone photos: a curved wall of the backyard's buff limestone running along the front walk, sweeping out of the lawn in front of the west wing and up the west side with stone window wells at the basement windows, a white marble bed behind it, a stone ring that keeps the mature weeping Japanese maple at today's grade, and drip irrigation from the hose bib.

// views

Rendered view of the front yard from the street
From the street: rendered in Blender straight from the plan's model, every stone, chip, blade of grass and leaf placed by the plan's numbers.
Drone photo of the front edited to show the wall, the marble bed and the maple
The drone photo of the west wing, edited by FLUX Kontext to show the finished look. An illustration, not a drawing.
Model render of the wall, ring and bed
The model, from the southwest.

The model and the drawings come from the same Python module (cad/plans/front_yard.py). Fourteen checks run on every export: the ring clearing the maple's root protection zone, the bed staying 4 in below the brick and falling away from the house, the wall's height against its depth, the wall reaching the driveway, the window wells clearing their windows and the drip loop sitting under the canopy.

// the drawing set