Artificial grass - Opinions

victoriavictorious

I think it's absolutely fine but only in a very small area, eg a courtyard or as part of a roof garden, etc as long as it was the good quality type and blended in well with plenty of real planting around it.
It certainly wouldn't put me off buying a house the way that paving slabs (and too much decking) would; they would be definite deal breakers for me.

Skippy13

The environmental side wasn!!!8217;t a consideration for me. I!!!8217;ve got a cat and we!!!8217;ve cat proofed the garden so I!!!8217;ve never encouraged birds into the garden as it seems a bit cruel!

One of the main reasons we went for artificial grass was how low maintenance it is. I would never have gone for one of the cheap ones as they look awful but I don!!!8217;t like gardening, although I like a nice garden, so it made more sense than turf.

stripedbanana

The garden of the house we are buying has artificial grass and it's a bonus for me! It's not a level garden so the fact we don't have to mow a difficult space is a positive for me! My opinion may change once we actually live there, but for now I see it as a positive.

thelem

We've just offered on a place that has artificial grass in the garden. It is definitely a negative for us, but it's just one of a number of things we'd change once we moved in. An important question for us is what's under the grass. If it's just wood and weed proof membrane then soil then it should be pretty easy to get rid of. If it's concrete or paving underneath then that's a bigger job.

glasgowdan

Artifical grass doesn't cost £20/m2... that may be the price of a cheap grass for the roll alone... I can't imagine ANYONE having an area 25x25m done due to the cost...think the price of a Range Rover!

Getting rid of it and returning an area to proper grass is also going to be horribly expensive. You'll need skips and skips, possibly diggers... then imports of soil and turf. It's not a simple cheap job to rectify.

catkins

It wouldn't put me off buying a house. I quite like artificial grass. I have 2 big dogs so it would be much easier to look after plus I HATE cutting the grass.

Unless you really look after grass, cut it all the time and feed it it never looks good.

seven-day-weekend

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For the benefit of those who are seeing the references to LemonSqueezer, but cba to trawl through and find the link from another page of the linked thread...




I don't think that looks particularly good, but for a small urban patch like that, I can see the benefits.

For 25m x 25m...? No.

I would rather have hard landscaping than that 'lawn'.

Our last house had a long thin garden as many terraced houses have, we had no lawn at all, just raised beds, planters, a pond and places to sit. Looked great.

The bungalow we live in now has a big enough garden to have a lawn, flowerbeds and more informal barked areas with a pond and places to sit. It's a wildlife haven. We are about to redesign it so that there is less lawn and more flowerbed and hard landscaping, but we won't be having artificial lawn.

Chumphrey81

Personally i do not like artificial grass, but i can definitely see the pros for having it. It certainly would not put me off buying a house as if i wanted to, i would simply replace the artificial grass for real.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

My dad's an old school gardener and his face was classic when he saw my neighbours had installed a fake lawn....

You don't have to have lawn in difficult areas; there are loads of interesting bog plants (very wildlife friendly) you could grow in the marshy area, and you could try shade lovers around the tree.

steph2901

Personally I don't like fake grass, I've walked past a few houses around here that have it and some look ok, whilst others don't.