We live on the ground floor of the house, the owners live on the top floor. We are generally on good terms, though not close. We basically all keep to ourselves.

Part of the backyard is officially ours. However, the owners have let us know they will have to walk across our lawn to get to their clothesline.

That’s fine. Their newest idea, on the other hand, we are not happy about: they want to install a path along the edge of our backyard. We don’t want to be looking at a path when we could be looking at plants instead – and we had been planning to turn that part of the yard into a vegetable garden.

They are very excited about their plan. Should I approach them, and risk making our lives less peaceful?