

But with paving materials like bricks and pre-formed concrete, order a few more to allow for breakage so you don't end up one or two pieces short. A square metre of bricks is 36 bricks so you can order exactly how many you need. The dark lines represent a square metre so you can work out exactly how much you need of turf or paving. If not, simply scuff away the design, prepare a new design and draw it on the ground again.ĭoing your plan on graph paper gives you a really easy way of estimating materials. Plotting it out this way means you can live with it for a week or two and find out if the garden's going to work for you. You can do that using a hose pipe, a rope, lime or spray paint, as long as you can see the boundaries of the different parts of your garden. Once you've completed your plan on paper it's a good idea to plot it out on the ground.


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Before you know it, you'll have a professional looking design that you can use to help calculate your material requirements from. On your graph paper, make each dark line square equal to one metre and when the outline is complete, scan it or photocopy it so you can try lots of different designs. Measure the boundary and plot everything else, systematically from there.
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Next, accurately measure your house and draw a plan on graph paper, carefully locating doors, windows and garden. It gives you architectural styles, view lines and, of course, it gives you the entry point to the garden. Think too about the house as it's such an important part of your design. Existing vegetation in your garden may be retained, or you may want to remove it if it's past its best. Look at the landscapes in neighbouring yards as you may want to either screen the landscape or, perhaps, 'borrow' a landscape so it becomes part of your garden. Make the most of the sun when you need it and you may need to screen it at other times. You need to consider the way the garden's exposed to the sun, for example. Site analysis is the most important step in your design. Do you want shaded areas or sunny areas? Do you want play areas or places where you can sit and relax on your own? Do you want to entertain lots of friends and have a big, outdoor eating area or do you need to screen the house next door? Answer those questions and you're well on the way to designing your garden. When planning a new design for your garden the first thing to do is to work out exactly what the garden is going to be used for and who's going to use it.
