What does your yard say about you? It might rest outside the walls of your house, but your yard is still part of your home. We burn through hours deciding between pieces of furniture, color swatches, and carpets to make our houses comfortable and expressive; meanwhile, more see a yard than a living room, and the natural beauty of good landscaping is nearly unmatchable. It may seem daunting at first, but we’ve put together three easy DIY landscaping projects to beautify your lawn.
Creating a Space
An important idea in landscaping is that yards shouldn’t just be expanses of green – angles, balance and color should be used to make a yard feel like a space, like a room in a house. Find a diagram of your yard and understand what sort of space you’re dealing with, and then look around your yard to get a feel for it. What sorts of natural landforms are there? If you were to imagine your yard in terms of rooms, what would the rooms look like, what would you do in them, and where would they go? You can create your “walls” through straight angles between trees, flowers, and bushes, or by utilizing walkways.
Gardening
Gardening will allow you to create dynamic and beautiful spaces through arrangement of differently shaped and colored flowers. With a little work and research, you can make something much more impressive than a small square filled with flowers – use the colors to border your house and add personality, or different scents to fill your space with a calming aroma. For a real gardening challenge, try to arrange flowers so they create a vibrant walkway.
Special Landforms
You can also diversify your yard with interesting features, such as rock walkways or small bodies of water. They’re actually very easy to introduce to your yard. For rocks, just imagine what you want them to look like, and buy rocks of the appropriate shape. A small pond is a weekend project: start by contacting your town government to get digging approval, get a pump, materials to line the bottom of the pond, and whatever plants or rocks you wish to decorate its outside.
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