12 Ways to Renovate Your Backyard Garden

Design a professional garden from the tips of landscape experts.

Big cities have a lot of plans for you, but backyard space doesn’t give you many options. Designers in high-density areas such as San Francisco and New York have extensive experience in designing professional backyard garden renovations in urban areas from narrow gardens to wide, comfortable, free to tight in layout to meet the requirements of the house. There is not a general method for each specific locality, but they always try to be creative to solve the maximization of the linking space between inside and outside and turn them into unique designs to enjoy life. Below, let’s explore 12 ideas from these design experts to apply to your home!

1. Break it down into multiple functional areas 

Create multiple functions in your garden and divide them according to your wishes such as walking, dining, planting area. This space is a backyard in Brooklyn, New York that has it all four functional areas.

2. Extend the yard from the space inside the house

Architect Carson Arthur asked his client to expand a part of the interior of the house into a backyard because the courtyard is too small. The interior cut-out area inside the house is a low-demand bedroom area while the backyard area for communal living requires more space. Architects say with today’s technological developments, it is possible to create an environment that can transform from inside to outside and vice versa.

This is an outdoor living area that allows the members of this home to spend more time relaxing in Detroit.

3. Play around with angles 

If you already have a square yard then it is very easy to handle landscape design, however there are garden courtyards with complex angles that are more difficult to handle. San Francisco-based architect Rich Radford has an initiative with his backyard with 45-degree right angles to take advantage of the surface area planted with many beautiful ornamental plants. With a small deck and mini bonsai arrangement make the garden more creative and spacious with only about 30 feet of floor.

4. Use of surface materials

If you have a large garden, turn it into a multi-functional garden that combines play, rest and gardening. These functions need to be coherent in space. For example, in this space, designer Arthur designed a small garden for a family of many generations with a play area for children while adults can sit and drink tea, talk or do things. bake, plant trees together.

Surface materials help members distinguish and limit their areas such as clean tile floors for children’s dining and play areas and gravel tiles for planting, watering, and sanitation areas. Surface areas are even more meaningful for family safety, ease of cleaning and sanitizing.

5. Avoid clutter 

Any clutter in the space is also associated with hygiene, especially with outdoor spaces. Using clean materials for sitting areas and aisles gives you more control over cleaning. If there’s one area you don’t need to clean, it’s a growing area, it could be a lawn, or a garden where you can dig up the dirt and make your own planting of your favorite shoots.

Homeowner Freda advises that, to avoid clutter, instead of creating many small complex areas, you can shrink them into larger areas that are easier to control and more comfortable.

This garden is designed by architect Erik Calhoun. With a floor space of about 20 feet, he removed all the cluttered elements of a garden to create a modern garden that looks more spacious and neat with a rest area with a few rattan chairs next to it. under a large old tree and a beautiful lawn. An ideal garden for easy cleaning.

6. An intimate outdoor space 

This sounds complicated to deal with when you have a small space made it smaller by plants. But that’s what will make you feel a greater cohesion in the whole area of ​​your home. When you plant large trees in a small garden, it makes you feel more cozy and intimate in the courtyard and makes us feel like an outdoor room.

Garden architect Gary Beyerl says that when you plant effectively, it creates a greater invasion of your space, which makes you feel surrounded when resting in the garden. At the same time, you will have a private room without being too stuffy to welcome your beloved guests to your house. Urban areas will feel every square meter of their home becomes very precious from these garden spaces

7. Take into account the fences that expand the spatial view 

If you are struggling with dealing with your gardens, find a holistic perspective. From there, the position you see will have better design solutions. Beyerl recommends using short, open fences that don’t limit visibility. This garden in Chicago has a mesh fence that lets in more light. The surrounding fence is a spatial constraint that prevents wind, light and life from entering the garden.

8. Contrast 

Think interesting contrasts, says Freda, the geometrical contrasts between square and round, between broad-leaved and narrow-leaved trees… contrasts offer more interest than similarity.

9. Keep maintenance to the maximum extent possible 

One of the great things about spaces is that they are easy to clean. Therefore, the design should place the planting area lower and have a protective construction around it to make sure that the rains do not wash the dirty soil into the yard area.

Some space cases you can consider artificial grass does not require the use of water. Some outdoor furniture made of plastic, rattan imitation wood, with slots to avoid water stagnation is also a way to keep the products more durable and cleaner.

10. Design personality 

Individual design touches are more important than ever for a garden. Want a garden of your own that people will have to remember every time they visit your home? This requires a lot of your energy. For example this garden, a guitar garden is really unique style. From the simple elements of color, brick material combined with plants that designer Arthur has created for the homeowner who is a local artist who loves the guitar.

11. Create a focal point

Like creating an extra focus for your beautiful garden corner. Designer Arthur likes to use features of water, art vases and light to decorate this garden. The patterned beauty of sculptural tiles and cleverly arranged wood materials create a relaxing spa-style garden space. He believes that sculpture is an expensive design feature, just one piece of sculpture will become a phenomenon for a large space.

12. Need the help of design experts

If you can’t handle all of your space, ask good landscape design experts. Calhoun believes that, with the mindset and expertise of a good landscape designer, you’ll get better and more relevant approaches. The elements of weather, rain, wind, and light will be calculated and properly handled by the designers. Instead of manually planting clumsy nurseries, work with them to create a garden space that you love and that will last over time.