Encouraging moss

Banbh

Has anyone any advice on how to encourage the spread of moss in a grassy area. I hate 'lawns' and the power tools necessary to maintain them and would love a nice self-maintaining green area of soft moss.
I believe that a lot of water is necessary and that might be counter-productive.

In the USA front 'gardens' are often seeded with no maintenance green stuff but I'm not sure what it is or how to get it started.

My front lawn is like this, dense thatch of lawn moss, Rhytidiadelphus. It gets little enough sun, and rainfall is as you would expect. Low maintenance, a few cuts a year with removal of cuttings, never any fertilisers, no raking. The relative shade is probably the single most important thing, but fairly low nutrient soil helps. I got a few Marsh Orchids the last few years too, they self seeded.

Banbh

That's very encouraging. Thank you.
I presume the 'few cuts a year' are to remove grass.