Making the courtyard of a private house with your own hands (photo)

If you live in a private house, you probably have at your disposal at least a small backyard area. Regardless of its size, the yard always wants to be properly landscaped, to give it an aesthetic and cozy look. Now landscape design is more popular than ever, so there are many options for decorating the territory near a private house.

Landscape design and arrangement of a small yard

The landscaping of the territory adjacent to the house is always a very creative and enjoyable process that allows you to fully show your decorating abilities. You can find a suitable option for decorating the courtyard of a private house even with the most modest initial data.

If a private house is located within the city or on the outskirts of the city, most likely the yard around it is not at all large. Arranging such a yard with your own hands will require some skill and imagination. But the task is not at all hopeless. Quite the contrary, from a small inconspicuous courtyard you can make a real paradise and a fragrant oasis for spiritual relaxation.

The landscape design of such a territory should take into account 2 main points:

1. The yard will have to be partially "paved" - finished with tiles or natural stone. This is necessary to ensure cleanliness in a miniature area where there is simply nowhere to make tracks.

2. Part of the territory near a private house must be planted with greenery, otherwise the whole landscape design generally loses its meaning. This can be done with the help of small flower beds, under which you need to specially leave a place, and plants in pots or hanging planters as in the photo.

Carry out gardening of the yard with special care and love, combine shrub plants with small trees and climbing vines. Don't skimp on flowering plants. They look especially advantageous and beautiful. The more different colors and colors will fill the courtyard of your house, the more pleasant it will be to be in it.

If the area of ​​the yard allows, put a small wooden table and a couple of chairs. Create a shady corner around it with your own hands. Here you can have breakfast in the morning and read your favorite books in the shade of the trees during the day.

Do-it-yourself landscape design of a spacious yard

Before you start digging the ground and chaotically equipping a large yard around a private house, it makes sense to sketch at least a rough draft of its future design. To do this, you do not need to be seven spans in the forehead and be able to famously manage the appropriate computer programs.

Everything is much easier. Take a sheet of paper, a pencil and draw by hand where you would like to see in your yard a flower bed, paths or a gazebo in the shade of dense thickets of wild rose (photo). Mentally divide your yard into different zones.

For example, part of the territory can be taken as a recreation area. Here it is worth installing home-made wooden benches, a table or ready-made wicker rattan furniture (photo). Do not forget about the convenience of those who will be in this part of the yard. Lead paths to the recreation area so that you do not have to walk on wet grass in wet weather. An umbrella will not hurt either - there will be somewhere to hide on a hot day.

If you like to invite guests to your place and have picnics, provide a place for a barbecue. Put it away from the house, in the far corner of the yard, so that the smoke and heat from the fire does not penetrate into the open windows of the house.

Be sure to make space in your project for paths, a place to park your car (if necessary), and other details that are important to you. If you are lucky enough to have a small lake in the courtyard of your private house, be sure to consider its design. The shores can be laid out with a stone and lined with flowers as in the photo.

Landscaping the yard with your own hands

Beautiful landscape design is hard to imagine without green grass. There are two ways to plant eye-pleasing grass around the house:

- using sowing lawn grass;
- spreading a finished rolled lawn on your site.

The option with sowing grass is suitable only for the most patient and hardworking owners who love to dig in the ground. Arranging and cultivating a seed lawn will take more than one year and will require a lot of effort from an amateur gardener.

If you want to see the result of your work immediately, then use a rolled lawn. Measure the area of ​​the yard, subtract the area of ​​flower beds and other green spaces from it, and start choosing lawn grass in rolls. But do not rush to buy, because it is not stored for a long time. First, clear the area, mark out and initially arrange the yard.

You will need to cut down old trees that disfigure the landscape, uproot stumps and level the ground as much as possible. Assess the condition of the soil: if it is too clayey, add sand and gravel. Depleted land - be sure to bring fertile soil into the yard, otherwise nothing will grow on it. Sprinkle a layer of soil over the entire area. Pay special attention to the places where you are going to break the flower beds.

Only after such preparation can the rolled lawn be spread. By the way, it is quite possible to do it yourself. It is not necessary to hire workers. Grass in rolls fits perfectly and looks great almost immediately.

After installation, the lawn should be watered abundantly for a week. During this time, the grass will take root well, and the joints between the strips will become invisible. Using a rolled lawn allows you to create a very beautiful design and turn your yard into a real work of design art (photo).

Decoration of the yard with original decorative elements

You can complete the decoration with such details as unusual wooden or wrought iron benches, flowers in painted pots, original compositions from an old wheel, pots and a cart planted with flowers (photos 1-4). You can design in this style in any way you like. This decor always looks very impressive and colorful. The main thing is not to overdo it and keep a sense of proportion.

Original "vases" for flowers can be made with your own hands from the simplest materials at hand: old logs, boards, ropes. And do not forget about the small oases of wildlife - flower beds. Thanks to different flowering plants, you can draw whole pictures on them. Japanese-style rock gardens look very good in such courtyards.

Do not forget to learn all about those plants that you are going to decorate your yard with:

- on the sunny side or in the shade they grow best;
- how much moisture and what fertilizers are required;
- feel good in the neighborhood with other plants or alone;
When do they start and how long do they bloom?

Remember: if you love the flowering type of vegetation around you, you should select plants that bloom at different times and one after another. So your yard will always delight with bright colors and marvelous aromas.

These are the main recommendations for arranging the backyard area around the cottage. Following our recommendations, a little effort and a lot of imagination will give an excellent result. In a month or two, you will be able to invite friends to visit you and listen with pleasure to their many compliments to your talent as a designer and gardener. Yes, and in itself the chores of arranging your yard are very pleasant.