House with yard wide enough indeed has many advantages. You can optimize the existing area for various purposes, whether related to design, greening, or relating to the economy though.
If we see, some of the existing yard, it seems more likely to be used for design purposes, such as for example by planting a variety of plants and also to make the yard more attractive layout.
So that the result of optimization of the yard can be satisfying, of course, before starting to build a variety of designs, you have to specify in advance, what the design will be used to optimize the yard.