Landscape Software - Landscape Design Plan
About Landscape Design Plans
Introduction
For the homeowner that wants to design a landscape plan that maybe for an entirely new landscape application or perhaps you just want to add more style and glamour to your existing exterior locations, there are many considerations that need to be prioritized. The first consideration is pre planning your project in stages, beginning with a design plan that you feel would be more appropriate to suit the nominated site in land size and shape.
The most successful part of any landscaping project should commence with a design plan, by drawing up a plan, this will help you make decisions on what you can implement or not with the space you have allowed according to size, shape and site measurements for the landscaping project, especially for home owners who have limited space and don’t want to make mistakes as proper initial planning are very beneficial and more likely to eliminate problems that might have to be rectified before and during the landscaping project. Two Categories to Residential Landscaping
Residential landscaping is categorised into two categories, one is for providing atheistic and enhancing purposes and the other is for functional and convenience purposes. For the aesthetic and enhancement purposes there are so many ways you can create beautifully landscaped gardens by using plants, flowers, trees, shrubs and accessorizing with ornamental features that include water fountains, ponds and statues where you can highlight and centralize for focal visual appearance.
For the functional and convenient applications that provide outdoor living areas such as patios, courtyards, sunrooms, pergolas and barbecue areas also require a design plan drawing. As a home owner you have two options in designing such applications, you can either draw the plans yourself following basic design principles and the other option is you can hire a builder or landscape designer to professionally draw up the plans for you. It’s much easier for home owners who have built a new home and want to design a landscape plan where they want to either establish new gardens as they are non existent, or create outdoor living areas as they have a clear site and don’t need to take any obstacles into consideration that may affect the landscape design plan. For the home owner who already has existing gardens and are engaging in a new landscape make over, you will benefit from the guidance of a design plan whether you draw it up yourself or pay a professional, as it will be worth it at the end.
The Basic Principles of Landscape Design
The following tips are the basic principles of landscape designs when featuring softscape and hardscape materials that you can include in drawing the plan process, they are:
- Unity
- Simplicity
- Balance
- Color
- Natural Transition
- Line
- Proportion
- Repetition
Draw a Base Landscape Design Plan
Initially you should roughly sketch a base design plan with a lead pencil where you can change or add your ideas of the landscape project according to your requirements. It’s very important to include in the rough sketch version to draw any existing features that may affect the design aspects. Once you are completely satisfied with the design plan and have included all the drawings of special features that you want to implement, purchase graph paper which has line indications and transfer the completed design plan as the last preparation stage.
