Tenets of Landscape Design
Any landscape design project may appear
daunting when you're setting out to plan, design and especially to build it. To
overcome the confusion and hesitation, professional landscapers follow a set of
guidelines. By obeying these basic guidelines, we gain a better understanding
of what we need to accomplish and how to do it. Let's look at some of these guidelines:
- Style the landscape to the house - The home still is
the centerpiece and the landscape either complements it or extends the living
space in a compatible way.
- Have a Unifying Concept - This is the major purpose for the project and the
design concept. By focusing on the key elements
and features, the distracting details are kept under control and viewed in proper
context.
- Harmony and Unity - Landscape elements need to blend together with harmony.
This includes plants, materials, style, pattern, color and functionality. All
must work together to create a pleasing result for the client.
- Proportion and Scale - Use features at a scale fitting to the property and
its landscaping zones. Large features in a small garden may look out of place,
as will small clumps of flowers in a large garden or flowerbed. Balance of width
and height in flowers, plants, trees,
pathways, walls, and fences keeps the landscape in harmony.
- Mass and Space - Keeping a balance of open usable space and the objects that
separate them allow the property to breathe and still provide a full garden
of life atmosphere.
- Pattern, Texture and Color - Some colors, textures and patterns work together
while others clash. Some go out of style to be replaced by new patterns, colors
and textures.
- Uniqueness - Of course, all clients are unique and have personalities with
many different ethnic, cultural backgrounds and experiences. They may well have
a desire to mix designs and materials as an expression of the real things they
value in their daily lives. The client's living space is their personal domain
and must be an extension of what they like. That uniqueness can be the icing on
the design cake.
SLDA landscape design practices professional landscape planning
and techniques. Our development of the Stepping Stone Process is a system we use
to make a complicated project simpler for you and easier for us to understand
and create the key benefits you're looking for. We want to be your preferred Massachusetts
landscape design firm.
Landscape
Design | Design
Tenets | Landscape
Planning | Home Gardens
| Flowers and Plants
| Trees and Shrubs
Japanese Gardens
| Paths and Walkways
| Bricks | Stone
| Waterfalls
| Ponds | Pools
| Decks | Soil
and Lawns | Fences
