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/ March 3, 2025 
3. Flat-Out Lovely
Yard at a Glance
Who lives here: A retired couple with children who have just moved out
Location: Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England
Size: 2,690-square-foot (250-square-meter) side yard on a one-third-acre property
Landscape designer: Henry Scott of Pehrsson Scott
Before: With a drop of almost 6½ feet from end to end, this part of a couple’s yard in southern England simply wasn’t usable. And below a newly added studio, a gap highlighted the unevenness of the terrain and made for an awkward entry. The couple tasked landscape designer Henry Scott, whom they found on Houzz, with turning the slope into an area where they could relax and entertain, and with better incorporating the studio.