backyard layout

The courtyard of a country house is a nearby square that welcomes both owners and guests. We can say with confidence that the first impression of the owners is formed from the very first minutes, as soon as they approach the exit to the backyard or garden plot.

Before decorating the backyard of a private house, think about what is the concept of beauty for you? Visualize the desired result, and focus on what matters to you: practicality in use, stay in it, or attractiveness and magnificence of design?

Pay attention to your lifestyle, the presence of children or animals, the frequency of meetings with friends, organizing parties. The choice of details and elements of the courtyard interior depends on the answers to the above questions and on personal preferences.

If you take into account all sorts of nuances at the initial stage, then in the future, you will save a considerable amount of money and time for changing, finalizing and straightening the design of the backyard.

The main condition on which your landscape design depends is the size of the site. If the area is large, then the only thing that will limit the flight of your fantasies will be the lack of a lot of money. Important in planning is the type of soil, placement in relation to the cardinal points.

If you have a small area, then it is important not to litter it with unnecessary details and use every free square meter for aesthetic benefit. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the priorities, because it is impossible to place a place for a hammock, a barbecue, a playground on a few square meters.

Having decided and choosing the best option, we go to recreate the practical part, that is, the placement of all elements and objects. Professional designers advise dividing it into square segments for easier and rational use of space, each of which will contain a certain detail (flower beds, ponds, furniture, gazebos).

Using this technique, the entire area will be evenly filled with various buildings or decorations in the form of flower beds, which will create a harmonious appearance of the backyard.

Before starting construction work, we check the condition of the soil, if we find a place where water accumulates, we lay a drainage system (drainage).

At the same time, all work is underway to place all the mechanisms necessary for the full operation of artificial reservoirs, fountains and irrigation of vegetation.

Tiled paths, stairs

Garden paths are an indispensable part of every country house. In addition to the main one — safe movement, they also perform secondary, but important functions — dividing the area into zones, decorating the territory. When laying out the paths, concrete slabs, flat stones, cobblestones are used, or they are simply covered with a large amount of pebbles, while fencing off with a low curb.

By creating combinations of the above materials, it is possible to obtain not only the desired practicality, but also a wonderful decoration for any backyard.

Hermetic forms and landscaping are things that are closely related. Someone finds harmony in the smoothness of contours, lines, rounded bushes or flower beds, while the other prefers rigor — straight garden paths, square-shaped bushes, cut as if “under the ruler”.

As they say: “There is no friend for taste and color”, because it depends only on you what the decor of this site will be and only you know what will bring harmony to your soul.

Planting vegetation in flower pots or flower beds should be planned so that the flowering of some varieties is followed by the flowering of others. In this situation, the backyard will be able to delight you and your loved ones with bright floral colors for a long time to come.

If your area is represented by humps, hills — do not rush to level them and harm the environment, just create artificial embankments and level their bevels. Also, so that there is not such a noticeable difference between hills and lowlands, attach neat steps that will focus all attention on yourself.

Fountains and ponds in the backyard

In rare cases, oriental-style landscape design does without any water sources (pond, fountain). As you know, all European specialists in landscape design are inspired by the oriental style, which brings harmony with the surrounding and spiritual world.

Eastern sages believe that water is the source of life, and in combination with the earth it symbolizes balance, harmony, unity.

It is quite difficult to build an artificial reservoir, it is necessary to resort to the help of professionals, who, in turn, will study the features of the site, select a suitable place, and carry out all the communications necessary for reservoirs.

All the money spent, time and effort will pay off at the moment when you watch the splashing of fish in the pond or calm down from the noise of the water in the fountain.

fire bowl

Every modern backyard must have a fire pit, where you can gather with a large company, chat, barbecue or roast marshmallows. It is not difficult to create such a corner, but it is difficult to put into words how much good mood it will bring.

To create a fire bowl, you need to purchase the bowl itself and chairs, curved benches in the store. It is not necessary to buy benches, you can build them yourself using several meters of iron mesh and medium-sized stones. Such impromptu «shops» will not leave anyone on the sidelines.

backyard photo