Probably, each of us dreams of a large country house, where everything is perfect, from the interior of the home to the garden area. In recent years, landscape design has been given special importance, because with its help you can change the appearance of a site and a cottage, highlighting it against the general background. With proper design of a personal plot and competent planning of landscape design, you can create not only a beautiful, but also a modern plot that will captivate with its appearance.
Choosing a landscape design style
To decorate the garden plot of a cottage, modern designers use one of the styles presented below:
- Formal style, the characteristic features of which are adherence to lines and geometric shapes, rigor and proportionality. The entire site is divided by more than a few symmetrical sectors, and each of them should look laconic. The minimum area of such a territory is 40 acres or more.
- Thematic design. In this case, a certain idea is used to design the landscape design of the cottage, for example, based on a book, film or fairy tale, strictly observing all the subtleties.
- Landscape design. In this case, they are trying to create a natural landscape in the area around the cottage, to return the pristine nature that was here thousands of years ago. For this, various stones and boulders, large and wide trees, artificial ponds and other elements are used. This style is considered the most difficult to perform; only professionals with many years of experience can cope with it.
Where to begin?
In order to start creating a beautiful and fashionable landscape design for a cottage, you need to make a plan (project), according to which work will be carried out to improve the area. You can make a drawing yourself using a piece of paper and a pen, using photographs of finished work, computer programs or the services of a designer. In any case, it is important to take into account every feature of the site, because all of this can play a key role.
It is important to display all buildings on the plan, to highlight functional and decorative areas. In addition, you need to think through a system of paths connecting recreation areas, play areas for children and residential buildings, making the paths as simple and convenient as possible.
In general, the number, quality and type of elements used in the composition are influenced by only one factor - the financial capabilities of the cottage owner. Depending on the budget, you need to decide whether there will be fountains and ponds, columns and artificial lighting on the site, since the installation of communications, electrical networks and the arrangement of reservoirs requires high-quality financing. If the work is not completed, the appearance of the area around the cottage will be spoiled.
To landscape a site, you need to buy perennial or self-seeding plants, which can be purchased from special organizations that professionally grow and sell plants for landscaping. When choosing lawn seeds, it is important to take into account the climate in the region, the load on the clearing, the condition of the soil and other factors.
It is better to lay communications with plastic pipes, since they do not corrode, and their service life is about 30-50 years. When designing a site, it is important to think about how water will flow to the artificial reservoir, as well as organize the flow of water directed to the bushes and trees.
