A few years ago these folks moved into my parents’ neighborhood, painted their house black, and covered their entire yard in rocks. 😶

by xanthochr0i

40 Comments

  1. Colonelfudgenustard

    I don’t think it looks too bad, actually. Maybe the best part is the color of the house just helps it fade into the background, sort of camouflages it, so it doesn’t announce itself to boldly. Love that look.

  2. Own_Reaction9442

    With all those trees, there’s no way grass was going to grow there. I know someone who has a yard like that without the rocks, and it’s mostly dirt.

  3. Competitive_Touch_86

    Nice to see someone going against the grain of cookie cutter grass lawns! Hopefully the trend continues.

    House actually blends in pretty well imo.

    That said, needed better execution and better maintenance on the rock. Needed weed cloth put down and likely more rock depth.

    Fix that, and plant some more trees if possible and I really dig this a lot!

  4. Signal-Gate2065

    I don’t get it. What is wrong with it? It looks good. This type of landscaping used to be quite common in Europe.

  5. Looks better than a grass monoculture with zero trees

  6. MarshallStar6

    It doesn’t look bad. But I don’t know what the rest of the neighborhood looks like to know if it looks out of place or not.

  7. ScotVonGaz

    All I heard was “just because you like something and it’s your house, doesn’t mean I like it”. People are all different. People’s tastes are all different. Maybe keep to yourself.

  8. Shad loving ground cover would’ve been a great option.

  9. I think we need to see OP’s house and yard now.

  10. Acrobatic-Fox460

    Who even cares? Buy your own house and do what ever you want to it.

  11. squeekstir

    As long as they kept the weeds or additional grass clear between the rocks, love it.

  12. conitation

    OP you have the right to your opinion, and I disagree. Also, saves money on watering all that lame grass.

  13. H0LYT0LED0

    Guy who doesn’t live in neighborhood comments on a homeowners cool style choices

  14. PinkWitches

    is there a before photo? because this looks pretty nice to me

  15. RPGreg2600

    Looks ok to me. Not my personal taste, but I’ve seen way worse. That style house looks pretty good black.

  16. Unzensierte

    I would spread moss over the rocks. My yard is really shaded and I like all the moss everywhere.

  17. Jboyghost09

    I would rather mow then try and spray all those weeds all the time

  18. YouDumbZombie

    Looks fine to me, you’re the weirdo taking pictures of someone’s home and posting about it online lol.

  19. House_DeMota

    I will never understand the public shaming on a complete stranger in front of complete strangers and the urge to defend it when questioned why 🤷‍♂️

  20. wintersicyblast

    There isn’t anything wrong with it really.

  21. This is actually really nice.

    OP is one of the HOA people lol

  22. Relevant-Group8309

    Mind your business, that’s the problem with people.I think it looks nice.

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