What should I do with this space next to my carport?

Apologies for the blurry photo. Didn't realize it was this bad until I pulled it up on my computer.


This is not attached to the foundation and is elevated about half an inch above our carport slab. We have a lot of trees on this side of the driveway that have cause it to crack and raise along it and it has ruined this entire section. I got the house like this years ago and it hasn't really gotten much worse outside of the bottom right of the photo where you can see someone (not me) tried to fill in a spot with concrete mix and it just looks dumb. That's where our tree is raising the drive way and where I'd like to start removing the concrete and replace it with something else.

To the back right of the photo, someone apparently decided to pour what looks like a weird fat curb along the edge? It's pretty goofy and I'd get rid of that too.

My initial idea would be to put sod down or put a small shed there to store lawn equipment that we currently have in a room behind the house. The space does not get much sunlight outside of the first hour of morning sun, so we can't grow anything there. I'd be worried that whatever sod I put down would just die immediately. If we go the shed route, maybe I can do a small compacted gravel base and cut off the gravel area from the plants in the background with some landscape edging.

I wouldn't mind some type of hang out spot on that side of the house, however I just can't think of anything that would look great aesthetically. If anyone has anything similar on their property or has ideas, I'm interested to look at those as well.

I'll get better photos in a bit. This is just an idea I'm considering since I will have Baby #2 coming in a few months and probably won't have the time in the future to work on something like this while I have that extra free time.