Brick Edging Ideas for a Small Front Yard

This last Fall we tilled up our grass front yard area because they area was full of weeds and the grass needed to be refreshed. Unfortunately we didn’t get time before the weather turned to re-plant the grass and complete a border around the lawn. Now that it is summer we decided to finally tackle this project and we wanted to create an edging around this yard area so that there was a more defined edge where the lawn ended and the driveway begins. We have a lot of bricks laying around that we received second hand years ago so after researching brick edging ideas we came up with this solution.

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Tools Needed for Brick Edging

Play sand or any type of leveling sand
Pick ax or narrow shovel (depends on how hard the ground is that you are digging)
Rubber mallet
Brick edging

A view of the front of a blue farmhouse with a covered white porch and two dirt patches on either side of a walkway

An above view of a dirt area with green bushes to the right

My husband, Justin tilled the area again and the dark brown dirt you see is compost that was tilled into the yard to give it some extra nutrients. He then used a pick ax to start making the trench that the bricks would be laid in. After he had the trench completed I ran to Ace Hardware to grab some sand so that we could level the area before the bricks were laid.

An above view of a trench in dirt with green shrubs on the right

A view of a trench in the yard that leads from a pathway to a driveway

Justin then started laying the bricks on their side and after placing sand in the trench he would level out the bricks and used a rubber mallet to pound the bricks into place.