How to Make Your Garden More Private and Secure
For various reasons, people tend to overlook the full potential of their gardens, but that’s a mistake. With a little time, effort, and money, your garden can become an outdoor living space that greatly enhances your lifestyle while at home. If you add some garden furniture for relaxation and a firepit and covering for year-round use, you’ll find that the garden quickly becomes your favourite place on your property.
With that said, to fully enjoy your garden and also to protect your house, you’ll need to work to ensure that your garden is private and secure. While it’s unlikely that anyone will watch you while you’re relaxing or try to break into your house, you’ll feel a lot happier knowing that they couldn’t even if they tried.
Below, we’ll run through some handy tips that will significantly boost the security of your garden.
Build It Up
As we said above, it’s unlikely that anyone will look into your garden while you’re there. Even still, it’s just nicer to feel that you’re in your own private oasis. By building things up, you’ll ensure that no one can see in and, just as importantly, you can’t see out. Look at adding a large fence and adding some trees to your garden.
You can also think about adding a covering that will provide shelter from the elements. With heatwaves on the rise in the UK, sun safety is becoming more important than ever.
Add a Shed
You can’t prevent criminals from trying to break into your home via your garden. But you can make it difficult for them to succeed. One common mistake homeowners make is leaving garden tools out in the open, especially during the summer months, when there’s less chance of rain.
Those tools might be designed to help you make your garden beautiful, but to a criminal, they’re perfectly designed for gaining entry into properties. By adding a shed, shed base, and secure lock, you can keep your tools well away from would-be criminals. Plus, adding a shed simply helps to keep your garden neat and tidy — it’s much nicer to have your tools tucked away rather than cluttering up your beautiful outside space!
Light It Up
Crime thrives in darkness. Your home will look a lot more appealing to a burglar if they know they can attempt to gain entry to your home in darkness. You can secure your property by adding an automatic light system to your garden — if anyone is snooping around your yard, they’ll quickly turn around once they see a beam of light in their face. A light can also make sitting out in your garden during the evening more inviting, too.
Look for Weak Points
Finally, one of the most effective ways to make your garden more secure is to look at it through the eyes of a criminal. Are there weak points that an opportunist could exploit? Most people don’t think like a criminal (and that’s a good thing), but it’s worth doing from time to time — it might just keep your home safe!
