Red Handed Jill
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I never thought this would be an issue for us! We have great parking...if only, we could get people to use it!
Here's the deal: We have more than ample guest parking - paved - on the side of the house. We, however, park in back of the house (there is a short driveway to our parking; guests can park in the lot directly form the street). We don't want guests parking back in our space. Why?
We have put lights all around the lot to define it. Nope.
I finally bought (and this is lovely, let me tell you </sarcasm>) orange safety cones to put in the turn in for our personal driveway. THAT works. They see the cones, they park where they're supposed to. Or maybe, they just can't park where they want to.
Yesterday, we put in 8 bushes which I'm hoping, as they grow, will create a natural "wall" that will indicate, "the space beyond this is different, and not part of where the public - you - should go."
Eventually, we plan to pull out the nasty, torn up macadam that is there and put down a nice brick parking lot. But that is a big project and it is far down our priority list. I guess we'll stick with the orange cones for now. Blech.
Here's the deal: We have more than ample guest parking - paved - on the side of the house. We, however, park in back of the house (there is a short driveway to our parking; guests can park in the lot directly form the street). We don't want guests parking back in our space. Why?
- When it rains (and while we do have dry spells, it can POUR here), they have to walk a very long way through the lawn before getting to the porch. If they use guest parking, maybe 8 feet in the rain...and it's all sidewalk.
- Meh, maybe there's a little privacy thing. It's part of our space.
- Our kids play back there. They're good kids, but they're kids. Sometimes they do stuff like...throw rocks. Believe me, it'll be bad enough if they damage our car. Oy.
We have put lights all around the lot to define it. Nope.
I finally bought (and this is lovely, let me tell you </sarcasm>) orange safety cones to put in the turn in for our personal driveway. THAT works. They see the cones, they park where they're supposed to. Or maybe, they just can't park where they want to.
Yesterday, we put in 8 bushes which I'm hoping, as they grow, will create a natural "wall" that will indicate, "the space beyond this is different, and not part of where the public - you - should go."
Eventually, we plan to pull out the nasty, torn up macadam that is there and put down a nice brick parking lot. But that is a big project and it is far down our priority list. I guess we'll stick with the orange cones for now. Blech.