How to equip a yard in a village. All stages of landscaping

All residents of private houses are well aware that the allotment, which is up to the limits, is their property. But everyone should understand that there is also a local area of ​​a private house. In order to understand what kind of area this is, it is necessary to familiarize yourself in detail with the information about what the adjacent territory of a private house is and what rights the person who owns the real estate has on this land.

The design project of the adjacent territory of a private house
Design options for the site and courtyard

The adjoining territory of a private house is the area of ​​the land allotment, which is located outside the fence. The space located in the area of ​​the site can be used for the following purposes:

As for the land plot outside the fence, it is determined by specifying the boundaries of the adjacent territory indicated in the cadastral passport of the site.

If the land plot located outside the fence is not included in the above document, then the adjacent territory can be considered the property of municipal services.

Option for the layout of the local area

However, if necessary, the owner of the land plot can then dispose of it as an owner.

Who can own the house territory

Depending on whether the land allotment outside the fence is privatized or whether it is not the property of the owner of private houses, the authority to dispose of this site is determined. Land outside the fence may belong to:

If the land is owned by the owner of the house

If the adjoining area is framed for the owner, then his duty is as follows:

A complete list of the rights and obligations of the owner, to whom the adjoining area is registered, can be studied by reading the Land Code, everything is described in detail in this legislative document.


It is imperative to know these rights and obligations in order not to encounter difficulties and fully understand whether it is really necessary to spend time on registering the land plot of the local area as personal property.

Municipal service owner

If the land plot located outside the fence does not belong to the owner of a private house, the district municipal service has full rights to dispose of the space. The responsibilities of the structure are:

The rights of the municipal service can also be found in detail by reading the land code. Everything is clearly and comprehensively described in it.

What part of the land is owned by the owner of the house

To clearly understand the boundaries of their possessions, the owner of a private house must learn how to define these zones. There is nothing difficult in this process.

Plan of the boundaries of the land plot of a private house

It is enough just to study in detail the cadastral passport, which fully describes what are the property of the owner of real estate.
can carry out any transformations, deal with the arrangement of the backyard sector, in the space of the house and the land allotment, the owner can implement any project that is convenient for a comfortable life for a private owner. The main thing is that all actions meet the prescribed standards and requirements of legislative projects.
How to get ownership of the territory.

Sample certificate of ownership of land

If the owner of a private house needs to improve the area outside the fence, then it is necessary to complete the registration of the owned site in accordance with the current legislation.

In order to, you need to provide special information that confirms the need for this procedure. Such information may be:

In general, there are many options to privatize the zone so that the site becomes landscapable.




The main thing to know is that owners of private houses are required to study the housing code and legislative norms before contacting district self-government bodies. This will help to understand whether it is possible to carry out registration of privatization in different cases.

A package of documents for registration of ownership

In order to legally formalize the territory adjacent to the house, you need to find out how many and what documents should be submitted to the municipal district service of the district or city. Regardless of whether parking is planned in the local area or just the owner of a private house wants to expand the boundaries of ownership, you must submit the following package of documents:

An example of a private parking lot

When the package of documents is accepted for work, the authorized services announce the deadline for consideration to the applicant. When this deadline approaches, the owner of the land allotment must submit documents for the privatization of the land. The video tells about the process of determining the boundaries of the local area.

How the area can be used

The adjoining area, which is registered to the owner of a private plot, can be used for the following purposes:

• To ensure proper lighting of the residential area;
• You can also decorate the above part of the land with various ones or place beautiful decorative elements;
• In place of the local area may be;
  
• Also, the owners of a private house can use the local area for arranging parking lots for public use. In this case, you need to obtain a number of documents prescribed in the legislation, which give the right to such use of the land allotment;
• Ennobled earlier by municipal services, the territory of the local area can be redone at your discretion;
  Installation options for tracks on the site

  

• Also, with the help of the influence of the local area in the total area, a new one located near;
  Option for planning a plot near a private house

  
  

• Many people use a house adjoining piece of land to increase comfort. For example, they equip a bench, a swing or stools near the fence, on which you can relax while talking with neighbors in the area;
• And also some, instead of decoration, use the territory of the house adjoining area for storing firewood, building materials.

Everyone is free to decide how to organize the space.

Organization of space in the backyard of the site

And also, the owner of the property will be able to decide whether their adjoining territory belongs to the useful zone or to a piece of land that will be landscaped after registration in the property. In any case, the registration of a house adjoining property is a great opportunity to equip the most beautiful flower beds on the territory, devices for lighting the necessary ones.

An example of finishing and landscaping a recreation area

The adjoining territory of a private house photo of the boundaries, which can be seen on various resources, opens up great opportunities for the owner of the land. The main thing is to understand who should assist in the process of registration of a piece of land.

A country cottage or a private house within the city is a source of pride for the owners. Once upon a time, such housing was certainly associated with beds, a vegetable garden and greenhouses. But times are changing, and the functional use of the courtyard area has long faded into the background. Landscaping has gradually reached even the most remote villages, private houses are now real recreation parks in miniature. Where potatoes grew, now there is a decorative pond, gazebos rise in place of greenhouses, and beds have been replaced with flower beds and fountains.

It takes a lot of effort to decorate the territory adjacent to the house, and maintaining order requires a lot of time. But all the work is rewarded by the fact that in return you get a luxurious place to relax in silence or get-togethers with a noisy company.

The courtyard of a private house is made in several levels

In the backyard you can organize a dining area

Small bridge in the courtyard of a private house

The first stage of designing a courtyard design is choosing a stylistic direction. This choice plays a huge role, since it determines in which direction the designer needs to move on. It is worth deciding here not only on the basis of personal preferences, but also taking into account the following factors:

• the area you have;
• the time limit that you allow to spend on maintaining the proper appearance of the yard;
• climate and soil type.

There are several of the most popular options that experts offer for the design of the courtyard of a private house.

This style is ideal if the house is located in the back of the site and shows an open facade. Then in the courtyard you can place an alley leading to the front door, and arrange a recreation area in the backyard.

English style suggests maximum naturalness. The territory should look as if the human hand did not touch it. This means smooth lines, lack of asymmetry, winding paths and landscape irregularities. It is customary to place plants in tiers: first grass and flowers, then shrubs and trees.

An artificial reservoir in the form of a small pond will also fit perfectly here.

The original path from saw cuts of wood

Highlighting a recreation area with bushes

Japanese style

Here, a reservoir is not just a desirable, but an obligatory element. Usually it is the central object, and everything else is built around it. The pond is decorated with bridges, stones, gazebos are installed on its banks. The main representatives of the flora are rhododendron, juniper and dwarf pine.

The Japanese style is quite complex in design and perception, its beauty is deeper and is revealed gradually.

Such a courtyard sets one up for philosophical reasoning, relaxes and gives a person peace of mind.

Paths connect all functional areas on the site

Backyard with dining area

Recreation area in the courtyard of a private house

mediterranean style

Representing a harmonious combination of ancient Greek and Roman styles, this Mediterranean style is a favorite of landscape designers and recalls the wondrous beauty of southern nature.

Its distinctive feature is the abundance of stone in all its manifestations: marble chips, sea pebbles, and simply raw rocks.

The Mediterranean-style courtyard should be associated with the mountain coast, so it is customary to place various hills on it. It can be a staircase, a retaining wall or a slope with a terrace located on it.

Plants are of great importance here. In such gardens, topiary is widely used - curly haircuts of plants and giving them bizarre shapes. In addition, the Mediterranean flora pleases with delicious fruits: citruses, pistachios and olives. Small palm trees, flower beds planted with roses or colorful perennial flowers, and herb lawns are also used.

As for the architectural elements, there are enough of them here. In the inner part, a patio is arranged, the territory is decorated with arches, terraces and hedges, and, of course, fountains.

In the backyard, you can organize a small fountain and put a dining table.

In the yard you can organize a gazebo

We plan the design of the yard

A beautiful courtyard plays a very important role, because it is with it that the first impression of the house and its owners begins. Therefore, the backyard should be given no less attention than the cottage itself.

In order to save time and money, to avoid alterations and reconstructions, when starting planning, it is worth answering a couple of questions.

What is more important to you - beauty or practicality?	If the need for practical use prevails, then first place the most necessary things in the yard, and only after that fill the free space with decorative elements.
What will you be using the yard for? How often do you get together with friends and arrange gatherings in the fresh air?	Are you planning to relax alone? Take care of a shady corner, install a fountain or a pond. Gathering groups of friends? Build a gazebo, equip the territory with a place for cooking.
Do you have children and pets?	Take care of their safety. Refuse deep water, be careful with fire and electrical wiring.
How do you imagine a beautiful yard?	Choose a style according to your own preferences, add decorative elements, plant plants.

Thematic corners in the courtyard

Zoning different parts of the yard
can be made into plants

Recreation area on the site of a private house

It is on the answers to these questions that all your subsequent decisions depend. This is especially true for small yards, where there is no way to arrange everything at once, and you have to prioritize.

Having in mind some plan for creating landscape design, you can start placing objects on the ground. It is recommended to mentally divide the site into squares that are responsible for various functional areas. Each zone will correspond to one key figure - a gazebo, rock garden, pond, flower bed or patio. In this way, all objects will be distributed evenly and balanced throughout the yard.

Before proceeding directly to construction, check the condition of the territory. If water accumulation is found, lay a drain. At the same stage, all communications necessary for watering plants and the operation of reservoirs are laid.

The courtyard of a private house is made in several levels

In the backyard you can organize a dining table

Laying the tracks

After we have divided the territory into zones, it is necessary to make it possible to move between them safely. To do this, it is worth equipping special paths in the yard. They can be completely different: someone will like winding paths, someone will prefer straight paths, and some will like something in between.

The material of the tracks also provides a huge choice:

• large flat stones;
• brick;
• gravel;
• concrete plates;
• cobblestone.

Paths can be left without fencing or emphasized with a small fence or decorative border.

If the territory is uneven, it can be arranged in different planes by connecting adjacent segments with the help of stairs.

We plant plants

At first glance, it may seem that planting plants is a question that cannot cause any particular difficulties. However, many garden crops are quite capricious and excessive self-confidence here can lead to the fact that after a while all the work done will have to be redone again. To prevent this from happening, when gardening the yard, it is recommended to be guided by a number of rules.

1. Do not place coniferous plants and shrubs in covered areas. Despite the fact that they look quite impressive here, removing their needles from the terrace every morning is far from the best thing to do.
2. Do not torment yourself with unnecessarily whimsical plants that require constant care. If you don’t feel a particular craving for gardening in your soul, then opt for more modest bushes and trees.
3. The pond implies an elegant decor, but not the plants rinsing their leaves in it. Therefore, deciduous plants should be removed from it away.
4. There is a growing trend to replace fences with hedges. In this case, the plants used should be thick enough and have an average height, since too high ones will look sloppy, and low ones will not be able to hide the territory from prying eyes.
5. There is no such site that would not be decorated with a beautiful flower bed. You can split one large one or several small ones. But remember that if you plant several at once, it is important that they are combined with each other.
6. A small area is not a reason to refuse landscaping. Use a vertical arrangement, using alpine slides, ledges and cascades.

In the yard you can put a decorative well

Japanese style house design with forest background

The stone fountain in the middle of the courtyard looks very beautiful

Arranging decorative elements

In order for the view of the backyard plot to be complete and make it clear that professionals have put their hand in here, some decorative elements should be added to the landscape design.

Classics of the genre - garden sculptures. They should resonate in style with the overall design of not only the site, but also the house. It can be both classical statues and abstract installations. Of great importance is their size, which is selected depending on the free space that you have. They can advantageously fill the free space of a large yard, and it is better not to clutter up a small area with them.

Decorative arches look good on almost any site. To create an additional effect, they are entwined with ivy or other plants, and special lighting is selected for them. You can arrange them one by one, one after another or in one row.

Be sure to maintain the overall style with decor. If this is Provence, then clay pots and wicker fences will come in handy, amphoras of different sizes will be appropriate for the Mediterranean style, and a drop of magic in the garden can be added with the help of figures of animals, gnomes and other fairy-tale characters. The last option is sure to be appreciated by your children.

Stones combined with flowers will perfectly complement the design of the yard

You can make a path out of stones, and plant flowers nearby

We create reservoirs

Just imagine how pleasant it is to enjoy the coolness of a clean pond in a shady corner of your own garden on a hot summer afternoon. The construction of a reservoir is a rather laborious, but worth it, process.

An artificial reservoir can be performed in completely different variations.

• Small pond. Populate it with fish, decorate it with stones and water lilies, and this place will become of great interest to guests, as well as become a favorite place for games for the younger generation.
• Graceful fountain. This structure can take up very little space and is suitable for small yards. But its pleasant spray will be a real salvation from the summer heat.
• A mischievous stream or a miniature waterfall. Their murmur relaxes and creates a unique atmosphere of relaxation alone with nature.

In order to be pleasant in the yard, you need to keep it clean.

Well-groomed flowers and trees will look great in the yard

You can plant flowers next to the path

We illuminate the territory

Artificial lighting of the yard performs several important functions at once.

• Provides the ability to move in the absence of natural light.
• Favorably highlights the elements of decor, creating their aesthetic appearance.

The backlight should be installed so as to cover the entire perimeter, leaving no dark corners and to equip all stairs and paths.

The mandatory lighting program also includes the following elements:

• facade of the house;
• outbuildings;
• parking;
• main entrance;
• rest zone.

After that, we move on to decorative elements. It would be a shame if all this beauty can only be enjoyed during daylight hours. Therefore, we also shed light on all fountains, alpine slides, sculptures and flower beds.

A real find for decorating a night garden will be LED strips. They can emphasize the beauty of trees or place them along the edge of the stairs.

Decorate the yard with flowers

Design of the courtyard of a private house with a gazebo

We organize a place of rest with a hearth

On the territory of the personal plot and asks for a place for cooking on an open fire. The most common options for such a place are barbecue and barbecue, but you can find a more non-standard approach.

• Tandoor. This Asian oven is quite bulky, so be sure to consider your capabilities when installing it. You can fold this oven with your own hands, or purchase it ready-made.
• Outdoor fireplace. It creates an amazing impression, as if you were just sitting in the living room, and were transferred to the garden in some magical way. Place upholstered furniture near it and make yourself comfortable, enjoying both the beauty of nature and the warmth of the hearth at the same time.

The owners of private houses with adjacent territories are really lucky - landscape design opens up many opportunities for their aesthetic and functional arrangement. In the courtyard of your own house you will find a garden for walking, a relaxation area, and even a place for cooking.

Video: We equip the yard of a private house

50 photos of private house courtyard design ideas:

To achieve a compositional idyll on a personal plot, it is not enough just to build a chic house - it is equally important to decorate the area around it beautifully and functionally. Planning the courtyard of a private house is a very responsible process, since you need to take care of the correct placement of both household and technical facilities, as well as places for recreation and entertainment. It is worth missing something at the initial stage of arrangement - and then it will take a lot of time and money to correct the shortcomings.

What to consider when planning

The first thing to do when planning the territory of the yard is to make a list of required and desired objects. Mandatory can be called technical and utility buildings, without which it is impossible to ensure comfortable living for people, and the desired ones usually include all decorative delights designed to ennoble the territory and give it an aesthetic and attractive appearance.

• garage or parking for at least 2 cars (even if the family does not yet have a car - think about the future or about the guests who will come to visit);
• outbuildings (guest houses, workshops, summer kitchens, rooms for pets, etc.);
• access roads to the garage, paths for moving around the territory;
• yard lighting system;
• places and areas for recreation and entertainment (for example, a gazebo, a bathhouse, a swimming pool, a platform for parties, active games, sports, a place for a stationary barbecue or pitching a tent in the summer);
• green spaces: vegetable garden or vegetable beds, decorative flower beds, fruit or ornamental garden;
• other objects of landscape design: fountains, artificial waterfalls, ponds, sculptural compositions, etc.

Even if the family does not have a car, a parking space should be provided.

General requirements for landscaping the yard

In addition to the wishes of the owner, in the design of the courtyard area, it is imperative to adhere to the construction and sanitary standards for the improvement of courtyards, including private plots. This will help to avoid all sorts of inconveniences, problems with neighbors and government oversight services.

Rules for the placement of residential buildings

Quite strict requirements exist in relation to the location of residential buildings and other architectural objects relative to the boundaries of the site.

A residential building, as well as a guest house, should be located at a distance of at least 3 m from the border of the yard, and if a motorway passes immediately outside it, then at least 6 m. This is done to protect residents from excess dust, exhaust gases, excess noise.

The layout of the courtyard of a private house in the countryside is somewhat different from urban courtyards. Mainly due to the fact that the villagers are very often engaged in the cultivation and breeding of domestic animals, constructing special premises for them on the territory of their personal plot. According to architectural standards, as well as out of respect for neighbors, such buildings for livestock or poultry are erected no less than 4 m from the neighbor's fence, other household structures - at a distance of 1 m.

Features of the location of green spaces

It is customary to plant tall and large trees no closer than 3 m from the boundary fence so that their branches and roots do not create inconvenience to the owners of the neighboring plot. For the same reasons, the norm for medium-sized trees is 2 m, for shrubs - 1 m. These standards should definitely be taken into account when equipping hedges to mark the boundaries of the yard.

It is advisable to coordinate this issue with the neighbors in advance, including discussing the type of plants that are planned to be used to create a green fence (some types of plants can cause allergies or asthma attacks).

Garden area layout

Sanitary and hygienic planning standards

A comfortable and safe existence, as well as basic hygiene, are designed to provide the following standards regarding the location of objects in the yard:

• if the toilet is located on the street, and not inside the house, then it is built 20 m from the residential building. At the same time, the distance from the toilet to the dwelling of the neighbors should be the same;
• a bath or sauna, equipped in a separate room, should be located at a distance of 5 m from a residential or guest house;
• the well must not be dug near compost pits, latrines, latrines, or livestock enclosures. The optimal remoteness of the water source from such objects is 20 m;
• it is better to remove premises for keeping animals from the house at least 15 m.

Even in a small courtyard you need to provide a recreation area

Planning the courtyard of a private house of 6 acres is the most difficult task in creating landscape design, because, in addition to the house, you always want to equip a full-fledged parking space, a corner for outdoor recreation, break a flower bed, plant a couple of fruit trees or beds with spices.

To facilitate the planning process, the yard should be conditionally divided into 3 mandatory zones:

• zone of residential and commercial buildings;
• green area (garden, kitchen garden);
• rest zone.

An example of successful placement on the site of all the necessary zones

It is very important to choose a place for it at the stage of laying the foundation of a residential building so that the shadow from the building does not fall on the main part of the site, otherwise there will be a problem with growing vegetation in the future. The ideal option is the construction of a building in the northern part of the courtyard.

It is also better to place utility rooms or a greenhouse there. If it is planned to set up an orchard on the site, then the trees should be located in the direction from north to south, observing a distance between seedlings of at least 3 m, otherwise, over time, overgrown trees will form a dense cover with their crowns, preventing normal natural lighting of the site.

The layout of the courtyard of a private house in the photo below is one example of the ideal placement of all the most necessary objects in a small area.

The most practical option for arranging small courtyards is geometric. It allows you to economically use every centimeter of land.

Equipping a narrow yard, it is better to use round shapes

Ideas for arranging areas of non-standard shapes

It often happens that the courtyard around the house has an irregular shape (triangle, truncated trapezoid, rhombus, etc.). This may immediately seem like a problem, but with a balanced and thoughtful approach to planning, this disadvantage can be smoothed out and even turned into an advantage.

For example, in sharp corners you can hide utility rooms, sheds, animal pens or compost pits, where they will not attract so much attention. Sharp corners can be fenced off with hedges, placing recreation areas behind them.

It is better to divide a narrow long yard in half by a house, placing all other elements on both sides of it. At the same time, making out paths, flower beds, green spaces, it is better to use rounded shapes. Winding paths help out very well in such a situation, which visually make the courtyard wider.

If the yard is round or oval, it is not necessary to place the house in its center. The displacement of the building towards the edge of the site will visually increase its size even more.

It is necessary to plan the yard even before the start of any construction work, since in the process of arranging for providing lighting or equipping additional buildings, it may be necessary to connect communications, adjust the relief, which is quite difficult to do when the site is almost already designed.

When a private house has already been built, it remains only to ennoble the territory itself. We will give you ideas on how to improve the courtyard of a private house and arrange a suburban area in an interesting, beautiful and cost-effective way.

Create a beautiful yard with flower arrangements

Who among us will remain indifferent to flowers? Flowers are one of the easiest ways to give the yard bright colors and comfort at the same time. In the matter of how to decorate the yard, flowers are simply irreplaceable.

Everyone can plant flowers, making a bright composition out of them, but to make something more original, you need to show imagination.

A flower motorcycle or a bicycle will look very unusual. I think for those who used to have such a "friend" problems with this should arise. There are two ways to make a flower bed out of a bicycle:

We take this “miracle of technology” as a basis and cover horizontal and partially vertical surfaces with a mesh filled with nutrient soil.

We install ready-made pots. If you chose hanging planters for flowers with coconut flakes, then below, you can put a baby diaper so that the water does not immediately flow out when watering, but remains inside.

Next, let's start decorating. In order to make the creation look more original, it is best to decorate it with climbing annuals, low ground cover flowers. In such bicycle beds they live well:

• petunias,
• marigold,
• viola,
• geranium.

If you are preparing for a flower show, you can cover the entire body of the bike with garden flowers. A flower arrangement will look very impressive if the flowers are of the same color.

It is very good to decorate a country house with curly flowers. To do this, you can use both the simplest, unpretentious plants, for example, morning glory or girlish grapes, as well as more noble flowers - climbing roses or clematis. These plants are able to create a real paradise in the suburban area.

Climbing roses can brighten up your yard in such a way that it will simply be full of flowers, especially if you pick up climbing roses that bloom all summer.

Do not forget that even unnecessary old shoes can become an original decoration of the site. Take a pair of bright children's rubber boots, make holes in the sole, pour drainage into it, then soil and plant flowers. You will get excellent garden pots for outdoor flowers. And it is especially pleasant that we decorate the yard with our own hands at no extra cost.

To make an original garden flowerpot, you can use not only shoes, but also old broken jugs, garden watering cans, old kitchen utensils, basins, buckets, tubs, wheelbarrows, bathtubs, barrels.

In old stumps, you can also arrange beautiful garden beds with your own hands. They are very simple and elegant. Such a decoration of the yard with your own hands can be seasonal if you plant tulips in stumps

Old logs will help us a lot to decorate the patio in the country. If there are rotten logs, then you can gouge a hole in them, lay the ground and create a beautiful flower arrangement.

Topiary

Another good way to make a beautiful yard and give a zest to the site is to give the bushes an unusual shape. This technique is very often used by experienced owners of country houses, creating stunning topiaries and a beautiful courtyard of a private house.

Some of them even manage to turn their yard into a real zoo by cutting out the figures of different animals with the help of pruners, which enliven the yard of a private house.

Waterfall, fountain, pool - the main decorations of the yard in the summer season

If you are thinking about how to landscape the courtyard of a private house with your own hands, then be sure to create a fountain or pond in a suburban area. How nice it will be to be near the water in the summer heat.

Splashes of water from the fountain will protect the plants from dryness, and the pool will become a real salvation from the sun's rays, especially children who love to splash in the water will be especially happy with it.

Looking at the waterfall, you imagine yourself somewhere far from home. Landscaping the courtyard of a private house with even the smallest fountain is very relaxing.

It is very easy to make such beauty your own. Surely, after construction, many will find pieces of tiles, tiles, stones. River stones will look more realistic.

A fountain installed in the depths of the garden will look very harmonious. You can also put benches and swings for children there. Thus, the garden will turn into a real park where you can relax with the whole family and the arrangement of the yard will be completed.

Stone garden - beautiful and mysterious

For those who want to stand out, we offer to make a stone garden on their backyard. It can consist only of stones and sand, but it is better to dilute it with different flowers, green plants, as well as a small pond or waterfall. This is a very unusual decoration of the yard.

Stone elements can become the decor of the path. From stones or bricks, you can make incredibly cozy recreation areas - patios that can decorate any courtyard of a private house.

From all this, we can conclude that if you have at least some skills in working on the ground and show imagination, you can turn an ordinary yard into a work of art!

Arbor in the courtyard of a private house

One of the most obligatory things in decorating the courtyard of a private house with your own hands is a gazebo. Arbors can be different - open, closed, attached to the house. It can be awnings and tents, tents.

The most practical gazebos in the courtyard of a private house with their own hands are made of polycarbonate.

The most romantic pavilions in the yard are tents, in which fabrics flutter and a lot of beautiful country furniture. Landscaping the courtyard of a private house with such a tent is one of the most enjoyable activities!

The classic layout of the courtyard of a private house usually includes a wooden gazebo, with carved elements. Equipping the courtyard of a private house with a gazebo is as easy as shelling pears!

Owning a homestead requires much more effort from the owners than an apartment in the city. And a considerable part of these efforts is directed to the environment of the house. Despite the fact that country preferences are already beginning to be forgotten, when the main area around the residential building was allocated for planting edible plants - a garden and a kitchen garden, and the owners also do not really want to turn a country house into a village courtyard with beds and sheds for breeding domestic animals. You can't leave the yard empty anyway. Right now, a solid mansion (or at least a nice mansion), surrounded by a picturesque area, where it is so pleasant to relax, is in fashion. And watching well-groomed suburban areas on movie screens or pages of magazines, many owners are wondering if it is possible to improve the courtyard of a private house with their own hands.

Courtyard of a private house in general

We each have our own tastes and preferences. And they are expressed most often not by loud statements, but by the environment. And any little thing that really pleases our hearts unequivocally gives an idea of ​​​​us. Therefore, before taking on the improvement of the courtyard of a private house, try to see in your mind's eye the general picture of the planned activities and think about whether it will coincide with your personal idea of ​​convenience and beauty. After all, you yourself understand - if in a year some creative ideas, so enthusiastically perceived today, make you curse the presence of a backyard territory, then instead of resting you will get only a headache. By the way, often such ideas for landscaping the courtyard of a private house are photographed and posted on the Internet, and seeing such beauty, it is difficult to resist the temptation to try it on your site.

However, let's move on to more specific things. So, what exactly do we want to have in the yard of our house? There are a lot of options, but some values ​​\u200b\u200bare present almost always. These details include:

• terrace or patio
• garage, by the way, nearby you can make parking for guests
• bathhouse - it is better to build it separately from a residential building
• outdoor shower (although it is more in a rustic style, but if properly designed, it can decorate even a modern villa)
• summer kitchen, which recently looks more and more like a barbecue and is a platform with a hearth or barbecue
• outbuildings, in a simple way - sheds, for storing various equipment that has no place in the house
• dog kennel
• playground
• a web of paths connecting all buildings into a single ensemble
• various green spaces: trees, shrubs, flower beds, lawn and other floristic thickets
• decorative elements: garden sculptures, lanterns, alpine slides, rock gardens and other decorations of the area

It seems to be a small list, but if you start to implement it, and even with your own additions such as gazebos, fountains, ponds or other landscape design tricks, then there may not be enough space for everything. Therefore, first you should play around with the plan of the courtyard of a private house, try to arrange everything on paper (remembering the ravines, of course). And only after your project of the courtyard of a private house becomes the most optimal, it will be possible to start marking the yard itself and building the outbuildings you have chosen. And landscaping will have to be dealt with at the very last turn, when all objects are in their places with communications connected.

Here's how you can equip the courtyard of a private house - a photo selection:

The layout of the courtyard of a private house - some little things

It would seem that everything has already been said about planning - imagine, draw on the plan and do it. But this is just a sketch. In the same way, one can say about the birth of a child - to conceive, endure and give birth, nothing complicated ... And yet, even an unborn baby requires vigilant care and constant trouble, and we don’t have to independently develop a project for a new person, such duties are taken on mother nature herself. And when landscaping your own yard, you will have to work a little as a demiurge - in a single country farm.

Of course, the best will be the overall planning of the entire complex, from the residential building to the thickets behind the fence. But even if the mansion itself is already proudly flaunting its facade decoration, all is not lost. Given that in the end we want to get something solid, then the entire interior of the courtyard of a private house should be designed in the same style, this applies to buildings and decorative elements.

First of all, let's evaluate our personal plot - its size and landscape. If the area is not too large, do not clutter it with a large number of outbuildings. Choose only the essentials or simply combine several elements with each other. Parking with a canopy may well replace a full-fledged garage, combining a patio with a small barbecue will also save space, and it is recommended to attach an additional room to the bathhouse where household supplies and firewood will be stored. For a vast farmstead, there are no restrictions, except for aesthetic ones.

And now a little about the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house - a photo of various options:

Making the courtyard of a private house - building codes

However, in any case, it is necessary to comply with building regulations, for example, the distance from buildings to the road and other outbuildings. Residential buildings are built at least 3 meters from ordinary roads and 6 meters from the motorway. We hope that your suburban area is located in a fairly remote place, because the proximity of the main highways negatively affects the ability to enjoy clean air and the sounds of nature. Housing and outbuildings (sheds and a garage) should be at least 7 meters apart from each other, remove your dog’s aviary from the house at least 4 meters, but wells, separate toilets and compost pits (what if you still decide build them) must be built no closer than 15 meters from the house. The fence should be separated from any buildings by a meter and a half, or even more, so that it is possible to carry out various types of repairs as needed, and sufficiently tall plants (bushes and trees) - depending on their height - at a distance of a meter to three .

Having fully planned the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house with all outbuildings, we proceed to marking the paths. They should not be narrower than 75 cm - this is again a requirement of building codes. If the size of the territory allows, make a circular path along the entire site - you will get a great cycle track for your children. In general, it is better to make these sidewalks with smooth rounded bends and turns, because such a design of the courtyard of a private house will visually increase the area and even smooth out sharp corners in family life. Although in different styles the paths and paths differ in their appearance and material, but more on that later.

Here's a look at how the interior of the courtyard of a private house looks like - the photo wonderfully demonstrates all the details:

Landscape design of the courtyard of a private house

We coped with the dirtiest and most financially intensive stage - the construction is completed, all the buildings we need for a comfortable life are already in place, to which paths have been laid. And now it's time to start putting the area in order, that is, to become a landscape designer.

It is most convenient, of course, to work with a flat surface - here the flight of fancy is simply unstoppable, because anything can be depicted on a clean sheet. If you want, plant a park, lay out flower beds, sow lawns with lawns, install fountains or gazebos overgrown with vines - for every taste and color. But if the area resembles Russian roads, where there is a ravine on a gully and seven bends per verst, then here you still need to be able to turn all the shortcomings into an individual and original face of your territory. But - you can discard any doubts - no one can repeat such a design.

But in any case, the design of the yard with the help of landscape design requires special knowledge. And they consist not only in the ability to beautifully use all the features of the site. Much more often, botanical knowledge is needed - which plants are best planted in your area. So that they please the eye and do not require special care (it is unlikely that you want to hire a gardener or constantly take care of green spaces yourself), and feel great in your climatic conditions.

So, to start independent work on the landscape, it is necessary to clearly define all the environmental factors that affect plants:

• the amount of light that your green pets get (this is both general data on the approximate insolation of a given area, and specific data on your site - some flowers are planted under trees, in the shade, on the north side, and some need almost constantly lit by the sun clearing)
• ambient temperature (here we need data on the average temperature of the summer and winter period)
• humidity - both the earth and the air (that is, not only the average amount of precipitation, but also the proximity of groundwater)
• terrain
• the chemical composition of the soil (chernozem, loam and others), water (acidity or alkalinity) and air

Knowing all the conditions, you can already easily find those types of plants that will grow normally on your site without much additional investment. And from the complete list, you can select those that you like or fit into the overall design of the courtyard of a private house. Photographs of plants in encyclopedias or simply on the Internet will help you make the right choice, but you still need to take into account that in such cases the pictures show not only the most successful specimens, but also professional photographers try to choose the most favorable angle. So you will get an idea, but you still should not count on the same ideal result in your own yard.

How to decorate the courtyard of a private house - different styles

You have already decided on all the little things, but something in the depths of your soul gnaws with uncertainty - is everything done right. Sometimes it happens. Some people are satisfied only with the ideal, which just asks for the pages of a magazine about the life of successful people. Well, the ideal is what each of us should strive for. Therefore, now we will slightly analyze the already recognized styles of decorating the courtyard of a private house, on the photos of which many look.

So, the main division of styles goes to classic (regular) or landscape (natural). Moreover, the regular style implies strict lines and clear geometric shapes of both path buildings and plantings. It is believed that this style softens the storm of feelings among the townspeople who returned to nature because of the outlines that are more familiar to the city. But I warn you right away, the regular style requires constant and tireless work to maintain shape, otherwise in a year or two only horns and legs will remain from your classic style - everything will overgrow at random. In the natural style, everything is much simpler. There is no need to rest so much on "driving" the plants into the frame. On the contrary, the result of all efforts should be the visible naturalness of the landscape.

However, as you yourself understand, the concept of naturalness is different for everyone. It seems to someone that there should be garden trees on a suburban area, someone likes park crops more, and someone prefers flower beds and shrubs. Therefore, the landscape style is divided into several (or even many) different categories, mainly differing in the peoples from which these styles came. If you go over the information about the styles of decorating the courtyard of a private house, you will see, basically, such names:

• french style (one of the varieties of regular)
• English (or landscape) style, strict but natural
• Slavic style - slightly careless, but nothing better has been invented to surround a wooden house
• Japanese style (elegance and the ability to relax even on a tiny patch of a stone garden)
• European country style - somewhere in common with Slavic, but more streamlined
• modern style - the last word in landscape design and modern architecture, allows you to combine the interior space of the house with the surrounding nature at the level of sensations

Of course, this is not a complete list - there are many peoples and styles too. You can add Chinese, and Mediterranean, and Alpine, but we will not scatter. Why does a person living far from the sea need a Mediterranean style? Therefore, only those styles that can be useful in our conditions were listed. The choice is yours.

And I want to warn you right away - please decide for yourself in advance whether you want to live peacefully and enjoy the delights of the surrounding landscape on your private estate or you need to become the envy of your neighbors. Because in the latter case, a quiet rest does not threaten you in any way - after all, you will need to constantly return to your yard that very ideal view that should outshine everything around. But even in this case, you will be quite capable of doing everything yourself. Good luck!