Each owner of a summer residence or a country site makes out the territory adjoining the house according to own representations about a comfortable life. Some like the English neatness of the lawns, someone is delighted with the Alpine hills, and someone likes a simple village life with all the attributes attached. Today, "House of Dreams" offers you to see what is so good a country style in landscape design, what are its main features and what needs to be done to envelop the comfort of your site?
Village style in the landscape design of the site photo
The main characteristics of the village style in the design of the site
- Perhaps the first and main feature of the village style in the landscape is its simplicity. Here everything looks nice and pleases the eye, but the lawn grass is not measured to a millimeter, and it grows as it pleases, there are not the same flowerpots, but on the contrary, there are different flowerpots of different size and style, the beds with vegetables and flower beds are not clearly delineatedflowers, and organically combined in one area. But, despite all seeming, at first glance mess, chaos on the site you will not meet. Here, everything is tidied by the owners' caring hands, and clear and concise forms in the design of the site are preferred round and natural.
- Here we have brought out the second component of the rural landscape - it is its naturalness and naturalness. As if everything here was created not by human hands, but by nature. You will not see any rare and exotic flowers here, but even if an unusual variety rose grows on the flowerbed, it will probably coexist with "simple" pansies, cornflowers and petunias.
- And so, the third distinctive feature of this style - negligence - was discerned so imperceptibly. Just do not confuse it with sloppiness, this on a site in the rustic style you will not find. Carelessly arranged elements of the decor give the impression that they were just forgotten in the street by the owners entering the house, and the randomness of the neighboring flowers on the flower bed resembles a forest glade, a blooming field or a meadow where no one thinks about planting flowers in varieties: cornflowers to the left, and yarrow to the right. As their nature "planted", so they grow.
Rustic style in the landscape
Decorating the rustic-style garden
How to equip the rustic-style site
The most suitable materials for this purpose are wood and stone. What is associated most with suburban life? That's right, a log cabin, drowning in greenery, a wicker fence and bright flowers making their way through it. By the way, at present it is not necessary to build a wooden house, so that the similarity with the prevailing stereotypes about the rustic style was accurate. Modern materials will help to solve the problem, for example, siding "under the tree" is perfect for these purposes. Sewing a wooden siding house, you are one step closer to realizing your dream.
Wood-style siding in a rustic style
A fence in a rustic style is either a wattle fence or a wooden fence. In any case, we again return to the natural material - wood.
Beautiful fence in a rustic style photo
Wooden fence in a rural style
Design of a site in a rustic style
It will also include a gazebo and pergola, benches and a table. By the way, if we talk about a gazebo in a rustic style, then the most interesting option will be the construction of untreated boards with a thatched roof. More modern versions combine wooden construction, roof tiles and decorative forged elements.
Pergola with a swing in the garden Photo
Rural style in landscape design Photo
Garden paths are also not deprived attention, they are lined with rough stone blocks, stone, wood saw or just covered with gravel or sand.
Garden paths and beds in a rustic style
How to decorate a garden and a rustic garden
No village site can do without a garden and a garden. In the garden grow vegetables, spicy herbs, and the garden is buried in greenery and generously gives owners a harvest of fruits and berries. Even if your plans do not include storing vegetables and fruits for the winter, grown a few bushes of carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and zucchini you will not be burdened, believe me! But how nice to make a salad of freshly-cut tomatoes and cucumbers, add greens and spicy herbs from the garden and fill with fragrant sunflower oil. Here to you and delights of a country life!
In a rustic kitchen garden, mixed vegetables, flowers and herbs are mixed. Here, between the rows of tomatoes and carrots, you can meet bright "lights" of marigolds and cyanias. And shallots, parsley and dill carefully frame the beds with pepper.
Vegetable garden photo
In the garden decorated in a rural style, only fruit trees grow, and they are planted not strictly in some order, but somewhat chaotically, combining different species and varieties in one sector. At the same time, the owners do not set records for harvesting, for them work in the garden and the garden is, first of all, pleasure.
Beautiful rural style cart with flowers
Rustic style flowerpots are always a riot of colors. In one territory, both wildflowers and garden plants perfectly coexist, the main thing to give preference to simple types: tulips, daisies, decorative sunflowers, marigolds, zinnias, cornflowers. Particularly advantageous is the alternation of contrasting buds on one flower garden, where the blue color is intertwined with yellow, and the green shades red.
Flower garden in the tree Photo
Flower garden in the cart
The primacy of the accessories
That's what can not be in excess on the site, so it's scenery. For example, organically complete the created rural style will help small architectural forms in the form of a wheel from a cart, wooden sculptures, stuffed birds and animals. A rather popular element of decorating a manor in a rustic style is a decorative cart or a garden wheelbarrow, which, along with other objects of peasant life, is most often used as a flower bed. Agree, in a cart, a watering can, a kettle, an old bucket, a chair, a wooden tub or a worn out boot, it is much more interesting to grow flowers than in the ground. In addition, this is a pretty bright decor of the site.
Rustic style in the landscape photo
Original flower gardens in the rustic style
Rustic kettle in the village style
Rustic cart with flowers
Flower garden in the old bucket Photo
In the case of artificial ponds, it will be a simple pool or pond surrounded bylush greenery: trees, bushes, grass and flowers. Here, in the recreation area, pergolas, trellises and gazebos are covered with green climbing plants, pleasing the shadow on a sunny day.
Design of the farmstead in the rustic style
To separate the rest area from the garden or the garden, sometimes use a wicker fence up to 1 m high, it perfectly copes with the decorative function and seamlessly blends in with the landscape. It is possible to emphasize the country style in landscape design by real or artificial sunflowers located along the wattle fence, as well as clay pots and cast iron pots.
Fence in the rustic style
We hope that our advice will help you turn the site into a cozy corner.
