How to beautify & maintain a leaf covered lawn-no grass?

I need suggestions, guidance, help!! Please!! My lawn is covered with leaves, front and back-absolutely little to no grass at all!! My lawn also has about 50 VERY tall trees. I reside in Tucker, Georgia. How does one help improve AND maintain this type of lawn/yard?
Thanking you in advance for ALL suggestions and sound advice!!

Are you open to the idea of not having a grass lawn? Big trees and leaves that aren't raked up promptly are a recipe for dead grass, honestly even if you stay on top of the leaves the shade from the trees and the trees' thirsty roots will make it hard for grass to thrive there. I would consider putting in as much in the way of garden beds as you want, then if you want an open "lawn" area, you can put down gravel or river rocks instead of grass, or turn the whole thing into garden beds with just some flagstone paths through it, or add a flagstone patio/sitting area in the shade of the trees if you want to sit out there, etc.

Hi lachris, can I assume that you are new to this garden, if so then the best way to care for your lawn is every week, getting outside with the mower, set the blades at high and that way, you hoover up all the leaves, also your high trees and so many of them, think, do you need them this hight, if not, then get them chopped lower, if you dont need so many, get some removed, that will let more light and sun onto the lawn area, NOW the lawn, you have to keep removing all these leaves or they will bring with them all sorts of grass growing problems, from water , dryness, fungus, shade and will take all the neutrients out of the soil, I have to think that as you do have a sort of lawn area, then the trees were never that big before, if you inhereted the trees, then the previous owners could not have imagined that they would grow to the extent that they are now, or they would never have had a lawn in the first place, if you want to try salvage your lawn, then you need to aeriate it as in hire a machine that will do this, then you need to give it as much water as you can, feed it with a summer, then in autumn feed and keep mowing, but not too short, you need to let the grass get some strength bach again and if you keep it bald by mowing, it will never recover, after you have done all that, in late summer when the weather cools a bit, or early spring before it gets too warm, you should re seed the bare bits, once that has been growing for a few months, you have to start the feeding, mowing again, you could add some lawn sand also so that you are gradually adding bit more soil for the grass to grow into and eventually with a strict lawn routine, you may get a lawn back again, but I would deffinately have a good think about the trees first, do you need them, as many, as tall etc, then you will prob find the answers to the situation you find in the garden, watch these trees dont come crack your foundations also, your lawn is starved of light, moisture and has a constant blanket of leaves on it, so unless you sort out these probs, then you will need to go with the other sugestions, remove the lawn and go with flower beds instead. Good Luck, WeeNel.

Use your mower to chop up the leaves and blow them into piles - then choose where you want your compost pile and move all the chopped leaves there. Then head to the local garden center and find some grass seed marked for Shade.

You'll just have to stay on top of the leaf removal evrey year to keep the grass from being suffocated. Or as WeeNel said - remove a few of the trees to give yourself an open sunny area to have lawn in. My in-laws live in the woods and do both, and they have grass under the trees even in the dense shade - it isn't going to be thick and lush, but it will be there.