Garden Decor – Tips on Making the Design With the

Garden Decor – Tips on Making the Design With the

January 13, 2011 by in garden design with Comments Off

Garden Decor – Tips on Making the Design With the Right Sketch

There are certain practical considerations you must take into account when planning your garden decor. It is a good idea to take a piece of tracing paper, place it over your survey and put down the basic facts about the way in which you use your garden in a diagrammatic form. For instance, there is an obvious desire line between the gate and the front door, back door and garage entrance. There is probably one sheltered place in which you like to sit in the sun (your designing can create any shade you may need). There may be other inescapable factors, such as the need to park a boat or caravan in a particular position, other desire lines from back door to back gate and so forth.

Garden decorations are important and need to be carefully planned. Some of the above mentioned factors may be shifted slightly, but you cannot ignore them and they will have an important bearing on the final look of your garden decor. Obviously, the garden should not only be attractive but convenient. Kitchen gardens are best near the kitchens they are to serve, so are clothes’ lines and small children’s play areas. Areas for entertaining and general outdoor living must have good access from the house and should preferably not be approaches by steps which make the carrying of chairs, cushions and loaded trays a hazardous undertaking. The service yard not only needs good access to all parts of the garden (and remember if you have steps, that barrows and mowers will need an alternative ramped approach) but also easy access to the road so that peat, manure and other garden materials can be delivered without being carried through the rest of the garden.

Planning on having a tennis court in your garden? It should then be built on a north/south axis to avoid problems from low lying evening sun, whereas the swimming pool needs to catch as much sun as possible but is better kept out of sight of the house because of its dreary aspect in the winter.

Do not be afraid of discarding partly finished sketches which do not seem to work, but do not throw them away altogether as some further development of your ideas to improve your garden decor may solve the problem which prevented one of them from satisfying you completely. If you are absolutely stuck it is better to leave the work altogether and return to it again. Sometimes it is even helpful to reverse all the decisions you have made, put the sitting area in the shade, the compost heap by the living room and so forth. Although naturally your finished plan will not really be like this, the total reversal of all preconceived ideas will often free your mind so that designing in exactly the opposite way to your first intentions can provide a key to some problem which will allow you to proceed with your garden decor as you originally intended.




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