Ideas to turn a yard into a fun food producing garden that looks good

Now that spring is in my thoughts I am trying to come up with ideas to turn the rest of our yard into useful garden.  I want raised beds but I also want them to look good.  Here are some great pics of ideas to have a useful kitchen garden that wont annoy the neighbors (and might make them jealous) and is easy to plant and maintain.  My plan is to have half the yard in garden, fruit trees, and berries and the other half in grass for the kids to play.  We don't need allot of grass because right up the street is a lovely shaded park with nice new toys and a pool.  Bonus!  We dont have to maintain it. 

Source: flickr.com via Jen on Pinterest

Source: gardenplansireland.com via Jen on Pinterest

Both of these are attractive and will provide enough space to plant a good amount of veggies.

my plan on growing a green curtian for high sun windows

We have several windows that face the sun most of the day without any shade, and unfortunately we can't plant any trees there to shade them.  In the summer this side of Washington gets HOT so I want to shade those windows to save energy and keep the rooms cool.

Here's more info on growing a green curtain:

http://lifehacker.com/5635574/grow-a-green-curtain-to-cut-down-on-cooling-costs

I have a nice old window box and I'm going to plant pole beans all through it and place in front of the windows.  They will grow up a wire trellis and cover the window in nice green leaves.  You can use any vine plant but I want something that produces food. 

I will post pics when it actually warms up enough to plant my beans.