What's in the yard of the house. Private house courtyard design

Your own home requires more attention than an ordinary apartment (even a 2- or 3-room apartment). Much of the concern is related to the area around the structure. In the old days, all owners of their own residential real estate with adjoining plots of land carried out the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house with their own hands (the photo below shows the trends of previous years). But what is it today?

General information

Previously, arranging the courtyard of a private house in the village with your own hands (the photos presented in the article illustrate this) was quite simple. Most of territory was allocated for vegetable crops, sheds for animals. A small area was planted with flowers. Today, summer cottage preferences are almost completely forgotten, and solutions that were used before are unpopular today. Nowadays, a solid cottage or a cozy small mansion surrounded by a picturesque landscape, flower beds, and small architectural forms is in vogue. Next, let's figure out what the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house should be. Photos of some solutions will also be presented in the article.

Territory as a whole

Each owner of his own cottage carries out the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house in accordance with his personal preferences. Many turn to specialists for help. Professional landscape designers draw up projects, taking into account not only the wishes of customers, but also the features of the area itself. Many owners carry out the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house with their own hands (the photos illustrate several options for decorating the territory). Before starting work, it is necessary to draw up a plan, in accordance with which certain structures will be erected on the ground.

Territory planning

The arrangement of the yard of a private house with your own hands begins with drawing up a diagram. There is a complex of objects that are almost always present on the territory. These include:

Courtyard (terrace).
Garage with parking.
Summer shower. This element, as a rule, is used when arranging the yard of a private house in the village (the photo shows how organically this detail can be entered into the landscape).
Children's playground.
Outbuildings.
Decorative items, small architectural forms... These include garden lights ki, stone compositions, sculptures, alpine slides and so on.
Green spaces: flower beds, trees, lawn, shrubs, etc.
An integral element, without which the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house with your own hands, is indispensable - paths. They not only create ease of movement, but also perfectly complement the landscape.

Undoubtedly, this list is optional. When arranging the yard of a private house, one should be guided by common sense and understand exactly what is useful on the territory and what is not. In addition, there are a number of requirements that must be followed.

Location of objects

When arranging the courtyard of a private house (in a village or a suburb of a metropolis), it is necessary to arrange the elements at a certain distance relative to each other. For example, if there is an aviary for a dog, then it must be removed from the residential building by at least 4 meters, the garage and outbuildings should be installed at a distance of 7 meters from each other. wells, a separate toilet should be built at least 15 meters away from housing. The fence is located from any buildings at a distance of 1-1.5 m, tall plants - up to 3 m.

Paths

You can proceed to their marking after the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house has been fully planned. When designing paths, you also need to follow certain rules. The width of the paths should not be less than 75 cm. If the area of the territory allows, you can make a circular path near the residential building. This will make it easy to get to different parts of the house. In addition, it can be a great cycle track for children.

taking into account the peculiarities of the territory

Of course, the easiest way is to arrange the yard of a private house when the terrain is flat: there are no hills or hillocks on it, and the surface itself is located horizontally, without a slope. On such a territory, a wide scope opens up for the embodiment of a variety of ideas. Great importance have the composition of the soil, climatic features of the area. When arranging the territory, you need to know not only the nuances of landscape design, but also have "botanical" skills. They consist in the ability to correctly position plants on the ground.

Environmental factors

They are of particular importance when it comes to planting distribution. The following factors influence the development of plants:

Quantity, In this case it comes about its general distribution on the ground and specifically on personal plot... Some plants like shaded places, and some plantings feel better in an open, lighted meadow.
Air temperature. When planning planting, the average indicators of the winter and summer periods are taken into account.
Humidity of the earth and air. In this case, the average amount of atmospheric precipitation during the year and the proximity to the soil surface are taken into account. groundwater.
Terrain relief.
Features of the composition of air, water (acidity / alkalinity) and soil.

Considering all these indicators, you can easily pick up plants that will decorate the site and at the same time will feel comfortable.

Territory styles

How exactly to equip a personal plot is up to each owner to decide independently. There are several fairly common styles of landscape design:

Classical.
English.
French.
Japanese.
Slavic.
Country.
Modern.

The Japanese style is very attractive in terms of compactness. You can even arrange a small area. The Slavic style is perfect for a wooden structure. With its help, you can completely carry out the arrangement of the courtyard of a private house with your own hands from scrap materials. European country music has something in common with the Slavic style, but it is more orderly. The English design of the site is considered strict, but natural. The last word in landscape design is considered Art Nouveau. With skillful use of it, you can create a unique design of the area. It is considered traditional classic style... Let's consider it in more detail.

Landscaping in a classic style

It is also called "regular". In the classical style, everything is kept in strict symmetry. The lines of paths and buildings must be clear. Geometric shapes are used. It is generally accepted that the classical style in the landscape is able to somewhat mitigate the storm of emotions that arise among city dwellers plunging into nature. It should be noted that this site design requires special and regular maintenance. Otherwise, the plantings will grow, and all clarity and severity will be lost.

What materials can be used when arranging the territory?

When decorating the terrain, you can use various structures and elements. In this case, the materials can be used in a variety of ways. For example, plastic is popular. It can be used for making Plastic delineate beds, flower beds, paths. This material is resistant to moisture and temperature extremes. In addition, plastic is flexible. It can be used to make arched structures and more. Versatile material considered a brick. They carry out the finishing of residential buildings, a brick arbor looks great on the site. The material can also be used to create flower garden fences. Brick successfully combines with tiles, metal, wood. Often used and improvised material in the design of the site. For example, curbs made of plastic or glass bottles... When arranging paths, trimming boards, shavings, chips are often used. Metal is almost universally used in landscape design. These can be ordinary rods covered with paint, along which they will curl ornamental plants... Forged elements are often installed on sites. They give lightness to the surrounding landscape. Metal is in perfect harmony with other materials.

Alcove

When arranging a site, a place for rest is of particular importance. The gazebo effectively complements the design, adds more coziness to the territory. The building can be open or closed. In the gazebo, barbecue ovens are often built or a portable or built-in barbecue is installed. Often, this structure becomes a favorite place throughout the site.

Playground

It is an integral part of many home gardens. When arranging a playground, it is necessary to choose materials that are safe for babies. Today the range of children's sports complexes on the market is very wide. They are different sizes, collapsible or stationary. A playground can be an excellent continuation of the gazebo or be located in an open meadow not far from a residential building.

Garage

If there is a car, a parking place must be provided for it. As a rule, the garage is attached to the house. The parking can also be a simple carport from shaped pipes... Polycarbonate can be used as a roof. Better, of course, to make a garage closed type... In this case, the car will be protected from bad weather. The room must be large enough to carry out repairs or wash the vehicle.

Architectural forms

These elements are often used when arranging a personal plot. Near the gazebo, you can install a small fountain or draw a trickle. From natural stone original compositions are created. They can also use the combination different materials... Small sculptures in flower beds look very attractive. These can be heroes of fairy tales or cartoons. Original garden lights look spectacular. They can be placed along the paths, around the flower beds, near the gazebo.

In order to equip the courtyard of a private house with your own hands, you do not need to have special skills. And yet this is a responsible process, because creating a truly multifunctional, comfortable and eye-pleasing zone requires a lot of creative effort at the design stage.

Even the smallest details can affect the convenience of the entire yard as a whole, and it will take a lot of money, time and effort to correct critical errors.

Layout and functional areas

First of all, you need to determine the priority needs, they can be influenced by the presence of children, pets, several cars, etc., as well as the main purposes of use - noisy parties, a peaceful place pleasing to the eye, or the continuation of the workshop.

And already proceeding from this, proceed to dividing the site into functional areas... But the following objects are the basis in any plan:

Parking or garage, if not available attached to the house. It is worth considering possible guests or increasing the number of vehicles in the family. The exit should be convenient and not cross other areas.

Playground, if not, then for the future. It should be located away from parking and cooking on an open fire. It can be combined with a sports complex, provided that the simulators do not pose a danger to the child.

A place to rest. Here it is worth letting the fantasy roam and create cozy corner for a comfortable pastime in the company or privacy. Fireplace with comfortable seats will create a warm atmosphere, and a brazier or a Pompeian oven will delight households and guests with delicious dishes.

If space permits, a full-fledged summer kitchen will fit well. Ideal would be a combination with a covered terrace in case of rain.

The rest of the furnishings and decor can be entered in the remaining space. Depending on the requirements of the owner, a pool may appear on the site, separate bath or other outbuildings.

There is no need to rush to bring the plan to life, a good thought comes after. A gazebo built out of place can result in tangible losses. Therefore, planning should be taken as seriously as possible in order to create a truly comfortable and beautiful yard.

Functional areas are best divided visually by paths. The general entourage of the project will depend on the material from which they will be made.

The most practical, durable, but at the same time expensive solution would be paving slabs... It gives you the opportunity to experiment with the most daring design findings.

So, modern materials allow you to build luminaires directly into the track, with daylight they will differ little from the rest of the elements. In addition to the price, the disadvantages include the relative complexity of laying - without observing technological standards, high-quality substrate and drainage, such a path will quickly lose its presentable appearance.

V recent times become fashionable wooden paths, but this is an option for an amateur. Cheap and cheerful - ordinary gravel paths. When you decide to walk along them barefoot, stinginess will remind you of itself.

Landscape design

When all the vital objects are ready for use, it is time to think about how to decorate the courtyard of a private house and at the same time not overload yourself with the responsibilities of caring. First of all, the relief of the site is assessed, and if necessary, adjustments are made.

Artificial embankments or depressions for water bodies should be designed taking into account the characteristics of the local soil, groundwater and spring floods. Competent system drainage and storm drains will eliminate many possible problems during the period of snow melting.

When setting up a pool or pond, safety aspects are important, especially if there are children in the family. There should be no slippery surfaces along the reservoir, the presence of auxiliary handrails is mandatory.

The next step is green space. Before choosing one or another green pets, you need to study their characteristics, vitality, requirements for soil, light and care.

Botanical knowledge is completely optional, all the options you like can be spied on the photos of the courtyards of private houses, which are full on thematic forums, and ask the owners what kind of plants they are.

If the goal is to emphasize architectural ensemble the whole site and the house, there is a huge variety landscape styles, but it is worth understanding that not every plant will take root specifically in your region.

Therefore, if you do not want to spend a lot of time and money on caring for foreign fussy, take a closer look at ours, who live in the vast expanses of the CIS. With their help, beautiful compositions are easily created without creating unnecessary problems with adaptation and survival.

In order for the site to have a complete look, there should be no gaps on it. They can be successfully filled perennial shrubs, flower beds or trees with a high crown, if they are fruitful - only a plus. A deliberately conceived lawn is not a gap.

Decor

At the final stage, decorative elements are placed on the site with the confidence that they will no longer interfere with either people or plants. Charm and comfort will give the yard:

sculptures, from garden gnomes to full-length gypsum statues in antique style;
additional lighting devices, including those working autonomously from natural sources energy;
buildings can be decorated with climbing plants such as hops, grapes or ivy;
various decorative slides and stone compositions;
fountains.

An excellent way not only to save money, but to try yourself in the creative endeavors of a designer, is to use unnecessary things in decorative purposes... For example, garden accessories that are unusable, old bicycles, car tires can be painted and placed among plant compositions as a stylish element.

From wooden pallets have been creating almost free for a long time garden furniture... You will have to spend only on paint and stylized upholstery. Old boxes and barrels will fit in as original flower beds.

Some decorative elements can also have a practical function. For example, a dog house or a summer cat house, and of course the classics represented by birdhouses.

Wind turbines and solar panels created more for benefit than for beauty, but many will like the hi-tech notes of the site and the savings on electricity, which quickly pays for the expensive purchase.

Photo of the courtyard of a private house

Guided by his own taste and preferences, the owner of the site is considering the arrangement of the yard of his private country house... Some want to create a Chinese garden with their own hands, others dream of a cozy place to relax, and someone needs a barbecue corner. In this article, we will talk about original ideas on how to create and how to decorate a cozy courtyard located in the immediate vicinity of a modern private house.

Decor and arrangement of the front yard

A cute and original arrangement of the courtyard of a country estate with your own hands is called landscape design. At the same time, of course, the main house and the adjacent territory should have a well-groomed appearance.

Creation of a similar beautiful design courtyard with your own hands can bring a lot of pleasure both in the process of translating your own design plans into life, and later, when you will be delighted with a cozy courtyard, and you will enjoy the splendor that you have created.

The idea of decorating a patio with wood and flowers

In order for the territory framing Vacation home, looked the best, you can choose a successful combination of flower beds, flower beds, a cozy gazebo and a small illuminated fountain.

If you decide to create a beautiful cozy courtyard with your own hands, then before you start equipping it, you need to think over all the subtleties so that no complications arise during the arrangement.

Combining yard style with home

A variant of the arrangement of the style of the courtyard in front of the cottage

Various areas in the yard

To do this, your backyard will need to be divided into separate zones which will look very elegant and aesthetically pleasing both individually and in overall design territory. As a kind of division of the area, you can arrange all kinds of ceramic figures, plaster sculptures, small pretty fences. A wonderful decoration general view the central zone may become a small body of water.

Layout of the division of the courtyard into zones

The place for the smallest family members will need to be arranged in such a way that it is constantly in sight, and you are calm for your baby, having fun playing in the fresh air in the shade of apple trees and pears. As a decorative decoration for the yard, you can build semicircular arches and original fountains. Looks extraordinary as a superb addition beautiful lighting... All kinds of lanterns and lamps will attract the enthusiastic glances of your guests, creating a unique cosiness.

In this case, the backlight can be done garden plants, marvelous ceramic figurines, as well as majestic sculptures and fountains.

Moreover, on your site you can, thanks to which your yard will become not only original in performance, but also useful. Your property will be multifunctional if you place a number of additional structures on their territory, for example, such as a small one.

Lovely dining area

This will be a specially designated area in the courtyard of your mansion, which will provide an excellent opportunity to good weather eat in the fresh air. To do this, near the main house, you will need to install a spacious table with a canopy and benches, which, depending on the design of your private cottage, can be replaced with chairs or other furniture. You can designate this territory,. The planting density of such an unusual fence depends entirely on your need for sunlight.

So, for example, small pretty flower beds or climbing plants near your lovely home able to create a very cozy framing dining area.

At the same time, dining furniture can be made of wood, as this material creates a feeling of coziness, comfort and tranquility. In addition, the owners who equip their private cottage often prefer stainless steel.

Arrangement of a dining area with a stone barbecue

This choice is due not only to the resistance to corrosion, but also to the ease of maintenance of the table and benches made of this material.
In addition, the shine of steel looks very beautiful against the background. natural stone from which a house can be made.

Back yard

You can also make the backyard area of your home very elegant. In addition, this is the most appropriate place for relax. Here, near your beautiful private home, it will look charming with soft pillows, surrounded by beautiful flowering plants.
Decorating and equipping a courtyard with a pond

So, for example, as if floating on water can be a wonderful decoration for your private home. Imitation of a small falling waterfall will fit perfectly into unique design country estate and will give it a charming pristine beauty.

A monument to hopelessness ...

You already want to drink more quickly to forget. No! Enough, pull yourself together, rag! Today we will make the world around us better!

I will warn you right away that it will be very difficult, only a few out of thousands will reach the finish line, the percentage of success in such matters is still extremely small. But when did difficulties stop us? People think that putting their yard in order is a fantastic, and most importantly, a very expensive story. In fact, money is secondary in this story.

But first, let's digress. Imagine that you are on vacation and you are booking a hotel by the sea. You carefully study the reviews, look at the photos. You pay extra for your windows to face the sea, it is very important for you that there was clean beach to have a green area. You are very careful to ensure that there is a bathrobe, slippers in the room, and that the food in the hotel restaurant is varied. You are ready to pay extra for comfort, because you are going on vacation! This is a completely logical behavior of a person, because comfort is important to all of us, we all want a cozy room, beautiful view outside the window and quality improvement. Would you ever rent a hotel with such a view?

Or like that?

At the same time, such a view from their own window does not bother anyone. And here the question arises. Why do you pay so much attention to a hotel where you will spend only a few days? And why then do you not think at all about the comfortable environment in your home, where you spend your whole life? Why are most people willing to spend a lot of money to have a blooming garden outside their window instead of parking, but at the same time they slam the door in front of you if you ask them to chip in for the repair of the entrance for 2,000 rubles?

This is completely illogical behavior, because from the point of view of long-term investments, it is beneficial for everyone to have a high-quality environment.

One person recently wrote to me who wanted his story to remain anonymous. And the story is very interesting. He decided to take up the improvement of his yard and put things in order there. I made an estimate, invited designers who made a landscaping project. The courtyard was formed by houses in which there were about 500 apartments. Improvement of the yard cost 5 million rubles. That is, it was necessary to collect 10,000 from each apartment. Some of the money was stolen from the municipality, and the amount was reduced to 7,000 rubles. As you may have guessed, when the man went to the neighbors with an offer to collect money, he was sent and almost a beat.

It would seem that here it was necessary to spit on everything and score. But no. The man turned with his project to several real estate companies and asked to calculate how the price of apartments in these houses would change if the residents put the courtyard in order. It was then that it turned out that thanks to the steep courtyard, real estate would have risen in price by an average of 5%! That is, by investing even 10 or 20 thousand in his yard, each resident would increase the value of his assets by 200-400 thousand! A good investment? The same applies to rental housing. People who rent out their apartments could raise the rental price and recoup investments in six months or a year.

Having made a presentation for neighbors, our hero was able to convince many of the benefits of transformations. I hope this story ends well, and I will write about it later.

In Russia, few people think about such things, but in vain. People calmly invest hundreds of thousands of rubles in the renovation of their apartments, in the tuning of their cars, but they do not at all think that if the environment around them is improved, the value of their assets will increase, as will the quality of life. Why live in shit when you can live in a beautiful garden?

After studying the experience and success stories of people who managed to transform their yard, I came up with some rules. Perhaps they can help you clean up your yard.

1. Set boundaries

It is impossible to do anything until there are clear boundaries. Therefore, of course, you need to start with surveying, if you haven’t done it yet. That is, you need to define clear boundaries adjoining territory... And, of course, the yard must be properly designed and managed by the tenants. I will not dwell on all the nuances of land surveying, this is a separate large topic, read it on the Internet.

But it is not enough to draw up boundaries on paper: they should also be in life. This is a big problem for microdistricts, which, in contrast to the block development, do not imply a clear division of courtyards. Often, looking out the window, you will see a shapeless wasteland with indistinct landscaping and parking. What to do with him?

In any case, without zoning anywhere. It is not necessary to put up a fence. You can, for example, move a parking lot to the border or plant bushes there. You can even separate your own from someone else's by a path or a lawn.

It is important that every tenant of your house clearly understands where your land is. Because in the future you will have to fight and shed blood for this land!

2. Let's rally the ranks!

Almost all stories of changes in the house or in the yard begin the same way: "I went to the neighbors and realized that no one needs anything!" Indeed: if you have a garbage dump outside your window and everyone was happy with it, then most likely you will face the indifference of your neighbors and unwillingness to change something. This is a commonplace story, and you shouldn't be intimidated by it. You just need to fix the current state and change it.

Alone, you won't change anything. To put things in order and make a cool yard, you need to make friends with your neighbors! There are many ways here, and each of you will surely find one for yourself. It can be some kind of chats and forums of your house, where residents will communicate, it can be some kind of real activity.

European practice shows that people are very well united around children. That is, your neighbor is probably an asshole, but the children are not to blame. And for the sake of children, you can be patient. Therefore, for example, creating a courtyard garden for children, where you plant various plants, and then everyone will take care of them in unison, it can help a lot.

The barbecue area can also help! By the way, you can often find a tandoor in the yard! This is the soul of the yard, and it is he who unites the neighbors when someone prepares cakes or pilaf for the entire entrance!

3. Start small

A nice courtyard is a place where you will enjoy being. Therefore, treat it as, for example, a personal plot. What is the first thing a person does on their site? Puts the table! Nothing happens without a table. The table brings people together. At the table you can play dominoes or drink culturally. At the table you can work, do outdoor homework, paint. If you look at how people themselves equip their yards, then notice that no one can do without a table.

In Finland, there are tables in every yard.

It is very convenient and inexpensive.

It is also very important to create conditions for being in the yard in any weather. This requires sun and rain canopies. These can be pergolas, which will eventually entwine plants, or ordinary gazebos.

A good solution would be to make an elongated visor with benches above the entrance.

4. A courtyard for everyone

Reading the third paragraph, many of you probably thought to yourself: "Yeah, give him benches and tables, so that there gopota drunk until late ?! So that homeless people live there?"

Let me tell you about the bum theory. Homeless people, drunks and gopniks are in any city. And their requirements for the urban environment, for obvious reasons, are extremely low. A homeless person does not care whether there is a good improvement or not - he can sleep under a bush. It's the same with drunks. They will thump in any case, and interiors are not very important to them for this occupation. But at normal people the requirements for the urban environment are high. For example, in order for a hipster to go outside to work with a laptop, you need to create conditions for it.

When conditions are unsatisfactory, we go out into the street, and it may seem to us that there are only asocial elements around us, who only do what they crap and prevent normal people from living. But there are not so many of them as it seems: there are simply no normal people. And they are not there because the environment is bad, and normal people prefer to sit in a cafe, at home or in an office, and rather run away from the street.

And now you look out the window and think: how to drive the drunks out from under the window? At this point, many make a mistake. The moment you look out of the window at an unpleasant company, you try on the situation for yourself. And you know that an unpleasant environment drove you off the street at one time. And you think that if you worsen the existing environment, then unpleasant individuals will become uncomfortable and they will leave. So you decide to remove the last bench at the entrance, insert an ugly metal door, unscrew the light bulb in the lantern so that these bastards get really bad.

This is a big mistake, since you will not be able to descend to the level of an environment that is uncomfortable for the same homeless person. Have you seen the conditions in which the homeless sometimes live? On some heating mains, in garbage, shit and insects ... Do you seriously think that you can frighten them off with a twisted light bulb and a cleaned bench?

So: the environment must, on the contrary, be improved. Your goal is not to lower the bar, but raise it! And we need to create such an environment so that as many residents of the house as possible spend their time on the street. Then, among 100 normal people, you will not notice one drunkard, and the drunkard will be uncomfortable, and he would rather go to another yard. Remember how it was in Soviet courtyards, when there was always someone on the street. Grandfathers played dominoes, grandmothers sat on benches, children played, adult cars repaired, in some courtyards on the street they even did their homework.

It is very important to make sure that people of all ages and all social status there was something to do in the yard. Comfortable chairs and shade are important for grandmothers, a gazebo for young people, a grill and playgrounds for adults, and so on. It's just that every tenant should ask himself: "What will make me spend more time in my yard"? Hand out the questionnaires to the tenants and ask them to write what they would like. And you will see:

Alcove;
- swing for adults;
- horizontal bar;
- simulators;
- hammock;
- the fountain;
- a place for car repair;
- grill;
- vegetable garden;
- a house on a tree.

It is important here to avoid noisy activities under the windows. That is, if you have a small area, you shouldn't make a basketball court or skate park. So you will preserve the mental health of those residents of your house, whose windows overlook the courtyard)

This is how the yard in Satka was landscaped. It was like this - a typical wretched courtyard, of which there are thousands in Russia ...

A gazebo with an equipped place for frying meat and a rope playground for children was built there. The landscaping of the courtyard was carried out by the team of Mikhail Shatrov from Ivanovo.

I am often asked how to inexpensively equip your yard.

Such a project is within the power of the residents themselves, if there is a desire.

This is how inexpensive and you can simply put in order an ordinary courtyard.

All this was done in 10 days last summer, during the first My Satka festival. Invited architects and designers were in charge of the improvement process, and caring local residents helped them. Satka entrepreneurs also took part: someone bought boards for designers and planners, someone provided necessary equipment, someone brought rubble.

5. Parking war

This will be the most difficult test. You have to put things in order with parking lots. This will be incredibly difficult, since most people will assume that the piece of land under the window is POSITIVE to them! By whom and why, no one knows. Apparently, in car dealerships, people are promised that a piece of land under the window is allocated to the car.

A long explanatory work will have to be done here. You can start. Finish with logic and mathematics.

The logical chain here is very simple.

First, find out how many cars the residents of your house have. Depending on the region, house and area, the number may vary. Next, take a map of your yard and see what percentage of the yard area you are ready to give for parking. Perhaps you decide to give up the entire yard - then everything was in vain. If common sense prevails, then it would be good to allocate no more than 20% of the yard for parking. At the same time, it is better to organize parking at the border of the yard.

Further, most likely, it turns out that there will not be enough space for everyone. And parking in the yard is a scarce resource that needs to be distributed fairly somehow. There are two ways. The first is the queue. That is, whoever arrived first, he parked. It is not entirely fair, since someone can leave the car and go on vacation, taking place for a week or two. And someone works late, and he will always be left without a place. The second way is to charge a fee for the opportunity to park the car in the yard. This should be exactly the same amount for supply and demand to equalize. Perhaps it will be 1,000 rubles a month, or maybe 5,000 rubles. It all depends on the area and the level of income of your residents. Yes, the richest will park their cars in a nice parking lot, and all the money will go to the improvement and maintenance of the yard.

But even if you are not ready to reduce the number of parking spaces, you can make a reconstruction of the yard, keeping the number of parking lots! For example, in 2014, the Narodny Architect bureau prepared a project for the reconstruction of a Moscow courtyard at 21 Berzarina Street.

Almost 80% of the yard was occupied by parking (140 parking spaces).

The project involved landscaping and landscaping of the courtyard with the creation of play areas and places for recreation, while parking would be reduced by only 13 spaces. Drop-out parking spaces were proposed to be organized outside the yard.

Backyard parking can be a very important resource for financing the entire project. For example, 10 cars for 5000 rubles - and now you already have a personal janitor-gardener who will keep the yard perfectly clean. And in six months it will be possible to buy a new gazebo or plant new trees.

The rest of the residents will park in the adjacent streets and in other parking lots. I am sure you can find a parking place in the immediate vicinity of any house. Yes, you have to walk 5-10 minutes to the house, but nothing. Don't fall apart.

In parallel, it is very important to stop any unauthorized parking. Here effective solution there will be installation of posts that do not interfere with pedestrians, but prevent cars from entering the sidewalks and lawns.

6. Wastelands

In any yard, the question of the purpose of ownerless territories arises. These are plots of land that, for various reasons, cannot be used, but they must be monitored. One of the types of such plots is the land under the windows. You won't do anything special there, because people live on the first floor: you can't put a horizontal bar under their window. On the other hand, someone has to clean and improve this land. It turns out such an exclusion zone.

It is most logical to give the plot under the windows for free use to the residents of the first floors. This is how all modern housing in Europe is now being designed. The second floor has a balcony, while the first has a small area... There they can make themselves a personal recreation area, a vegetable garden - whatever.

The main thing is that they deal with this land. This still happens in many courtyards, when some grandmother plants flowers under her window or makes figurines from bottles. Then we get a living yard.

Your goal is to strive to ensure that there are no square meter unused land.

7. Garbage

Nothing spoils your yard like garbage cans. Foul-smelling dirty tanks that spoil the view, the air, create unsanitary conditions. Trash cans must be fought. It is clear that this is not exactly your area of responsibility, and you cannot make an underground storage if there are no special garbage trucks in your area. But the organization of a site for containers, even if they are the most ordinary ones, is very important stage transformation of the yard. Buy new trash cans, if you have old and broken ones, decorate the area for them (for example, with plants), keep it clean.

8. Tactical urbanism

This technique is often used in the city to understand the needs of the residents. The main principle here - to quickly, inexpensively and qualitatively improve the space with the help of non-capital changes. Before thoroughly blocking the street, you can block it with flower beds for the summer, put inexpensive outdoor furniture and see the effect. This is exactly what they did with Broadway in their time.

In the courtyard, tactical urbanism also works. At the first stage, you can improve the yard without special costs. Here, a pallet or pallet will come to your aid - a wooden container that is used in any warehouse for storage and transportation of goods. The standard Euro pallet measures 80 x 120 cm and is ideal for outdoor furniture. Here are some ideas:

It is not difficult to create such furniture, it is not worth any big money, but you will be able to understand what will be in demand by residents and what will not. This usually takes a year. During this time, you can move furniture around the yard, make playgrounds and recreation areas in different places, arrange flowers and plants.

If you organize the process correctly, it will be possible to involve neighbors in it, to accustom residents to the new life of the yard. When you understand where it is convenient for people to rest, and where they prefer to walk, taking a shortcut, etc., then everything can be done more thoroughly.

The same goes for the grill area. For starters, you can simply buy an inexpensive regular barbecue or equip a barbecue area. Further - to see how residents will use it, whether there will be complaints, whether it is conveniently located. And only after that, make already solid constructions.

9. Entrance groups

Make good entrance groups in the entrances. Good idea- make a large visor and arrange seating areas under it. Change the doors to transparent ones, put up benches, put things in order at the entrance itself. I recently wrote how.

In one of the Moscow houses, the chairman of the council of the house installed new door in your entrance at your own expense. The rest of the tenants donated money at will after the fact. As a result, out of 20 apartments in the entrance, only 5 were not happy with the positive changes.

Became:

The entrance with a transparent door immediately became much more pleasant, and special efforts no one was required. This is a very simple example of basic changes in your yard and home that will immediately improve your quality of life.

The simplest change would be to replace the door. And here you have to overcome another myth. The metal door in the entrance has nothing to do with security. Moreover, it is much more dangerous than a transparent door. From a security point of view, a metal door cannot in any way solve the problem of unauthorized access to the staircase.

Residents, apparently, build such a logical chain: if a metal door is safer for an apartment, then the same rule works in the entrance. Here, any burglar starts laughing) After all, they break not the door, but the lock. But okay. I hope I won't upset anyone if I say that the front door and the door to the apartment are different things? And the material from which the door to the entrance is made does not matter at all. The reader may notice that the doors to restaurants, cafes, shops, banks are made of glass - and nothing ...

The biggest problem is deaf metal door in terms of security, it is opaque. Used to be in homes entrance doors tried to make it transparent as much as possible so that you can see what is behind it. This is precisely what security is. You come to the entrance and understand that there is no one behind the door, no one will hit you on the head, no one is waiting for you there. In addition, when the entrance is visible from the street, hardly anyone will "crap" there in every sense of the word. It's the same when you go outside. Already at the entrance you see that there is a maniac with an ax behind the door, the goparis are waiting for you, or the grandmother is sitting on a bench.

10. PR

It is important not only to do something well, but also to tell the world about it. Any successful cases of transforming the urban environment today attract a lot of attention. Even replacing the door at the entrance is already a reason to write about you. Publications in the media and social media motivate people to do more and do better. Compliments from neighbors and approving comments can convince even the most ardent opponents of positive changes in your yard. People are conceited, so feel free to share your successes with the world.

The PR part is underestimated by many, but in vain. Even at the level of your home, it is important to educate residents about the changes and their benefits. Make propaganda leaflets and put them in boxes, hang up advertisements, tell all residents of your house what you are doing and why, what will be the effect of this. It will be very useful to print the correct articles and also put them in the boxes.

If you go through all these 10 steps sequentially, perhaps your usual courtyard in an ordinary Russian city will become like this:

Or like this:

Everything is more than real.

By the way, there is a shovel hanging in almost every Finnish yard:

It is needed in order to beat skeptics over the head, who whine that nothing can be changed. I collect success stories. If you were able to tidy up your yard or entrance, if you have experience of communicating with neighbors and bringing people together, write to me: [email protected] .

Well, spread the post) Than more people reads it, the better.

When private house already built, it remains only to refine 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 inexpensive way.

How to create a beautiful courtyard with flower arrangements

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

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

A flower motorcycle or a bicycle will look very unusual. I think for those who had such a "friend" before, 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 nutritious soil.

We install ready-made pots. If you have chosen hanging flower pots with coconut flakes, then you can put a baby diaper below so that the water does not drain out at once when watering, but remains inside.

Next, we start decorating. In order to make the creation look more original, it is best to decorate it with curly annual plants, low ground cover flowers. In such bicycle beds, they live well:

petunias,
marigold,
viola,
geranium.

If you are preparing for a flower exhibition, then you can use garden flowers the whole body of the bike. A flower arrangement will look very impressive if the flowers are of the same color.

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

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

Remember that even unnecessary old shoes can become original decoration plot. Take a pair of bright children's rubber boots, make holes in the sole, pour drainage there, then soil and plant flowers. This will make excellent garden pots for outdoor flowers. And it's especially nice that we decorate the yard with our own hands at no extra cost.

To make the original garden pot for flowers, you can use not only shoes, but also old broken jugs, garden watering cans, old kitchen utensils, basins, buckets, tubs, wheelbarrows, baths, barrels.

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

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

Topiary

One more good way to make a beautiful courtyard and give a zest to the site - this is to give the bushes an unusual shape. This technique is often used by experienced owners. country houses creating stunning topiary and beautiful courtyard of a private house.

Some of them even manage to turn their courtyard into a real zoo by carving with the help of a pruner the figures of various animals that bring the courtyard of a private house to life.

A waterfall, a fountain, a pool are the main decorations of the courtyard in the summer season

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

The spray 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 happy with it.

Looking at the waterfall, you imagine yourself somewhere far from home. Beautification of 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 back of the garden will look very harmonious. There you can also put benches and swings for children. Thus, the garden will turn into a real park, where the whole family can have a rest and the arrangement of the yard will be complete.

Stone garden - beautiful and mysterious

For those who want to stand out, we suggest making a stone garden on their personal plot. It can only consist of stones and sand, but it is better to dilute it different colors, green plants, and a small pond or a waterfall. This is a very unusual yard decoration.

Stone elements can be used as a walkway decor. Stones or bricks can be used to create 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 a little skills in working on the ground and show your imagination, you can turn an ordinary courtyard into a work of art!

Gazebo 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. Gazebos can be different - open, closed, attached to the house. These can be awnings and tents, tents.

The most practical do-it-yourself gazebos in the courtyard of a private house are made of polycarbonate.

The most romantic gazebos in the courtyard are tents with fluttering fabrics and a lot of beautiful country furniture... Beautification of 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 wooden gazebo, with carved elements. Equipping the courtyard of a private house with a gazebo is as easy as shelling pears!

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