Landscaping for Zero Entry Farmhouse
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Comments (6)Farmdrmer, you are in the right place to get help so just need to proceed with organizing the request. It is fine to have multiple simultaneous threads running, with each one relating to a specific area. If we talk about all areas of your yard in a single thread, it will become unduly long and likely be confusing and one would always need to mention what area they are talking about. When taking pictures to let people here see what now only you can see, it is best to square up with a house face and then take slightly overlapping pictures that pan the scene from far left to far right. You need to be close enough to the house so that detail can be seen, but far enough that everything will fit in the pictures without massive distortion. For the front yard, that is probably anywhere from 25' to 40' from the house, usually, in line with the front door. If the front door is far off center, then stand in line with the center of the house. All pictures for a single scene would be taken from exactly the same position while merely pivoting the camera. You must include space beyond the ends of the house. If the house and flanking space is long, it may need to be broken into two scenes. In addition to the aforementioned pictures, you should include a picture taken from a distance away, as one would approach the house, to show the approach and how the house sets in its surroundings. Again, it would be helpful for you to talk a little about your goals and expectations for the yard. You just mentioned cistern/septic/children/dining on porch/shade ... all those kinds of things are helpful information. What else is important to you? Online resources and books may be helpful for inspiration, but the difficult part for most people is transferring that information to one's specific needs. That's where the forum is most helpful....See MoreNew Farmhouse landscape - master/garage area
Comments (17)Here are some suggestions compared to an artist's interpretation of your plan. The bed lines are yellow to make how they would be, clearer. Some of my criticisms of the plan are: the snakey bed line and that everything is plastered flat against the building. It looks pinched and the larger plants, especially, are going to grow leaning outward from the wall. The larger the plant is, the more this would be the case. It calls for permanently exposed mulch, which requires annual topdressing of same. I don't think the large shrub at the corner makes sense when there are windows also very near the corner. The annuals are in stringy lines. It would be better to move the small tree out from the building where it can grow larger. Keep in mind that there is space between it and the building so when viewed from the side, it is not smothering the building. If the tree came out of a surround base of perennials it would look more important and sumptuous. Instead of shrubs uniformly marching across the wall face, it would be better to fit them to the windows. Color in larger blocks, instead of lines would look better with the scale of the building. I think it works better to limit annuals (higher maintenance) to nearer the entrance and place perennials, for color, at other areas.. I cannot see the value of rocks, especially placed in a line ... behind another line, of plants. They would be lost. It would be better, if one had to have rocks, to have a single large boulder....See Moremaking a curved staircase look farmhouse
Comments (72)I guess the curved staircase trains you to hold on to the bannister for dear life. I have fallen down mine three times sliding down on my back. That wouldn't be such an issue if I hadn't had 3 back surgeries with tons of hardware. Gosh darn it hurts. If I have dry cleaning to take in, I just throw it over the bannister and pick it up when I get to the first floor. I also find that carpet on stairs is a fall hazard - at least for me. But my orthopedic and neurosurgeon say that doing stairs everyday is good for you - or good for their wallet if I go down it again and break something!...See MoreFarmhouse - your design advice please?
Comments (47)Have you considered putting your washer and dryer in the basement or is that not practical at your location? For privacy alone, I prefer the plan from Pill-Maharam Architects that someone else suggested better than your original; however if having three bedrooms and one bath all on one end of your home is essential because of a limit of one bath on that main upper level, at least reconsider your floor plan with regard to your entrances. If you will be accessing the basement from the main upstairs level via an interior stairwell anyway, consider putting that stairwell in a pair of enclosed entrance rooms, both on the breezeway side of the home but with one both upstairs and the other downstairs. Have the downstairs entry as your basement mud boot stomp room and use your breezeway as your mud stomp room upstairs. You could have your washer and dryer within in a closet beside another closet for dirty clothes hampers with shelving above for laundry and cleaning supplies either in the basement entry or the upstairs entry. From the downstairs entrance -- in addition to the closets beneath the stairwell for the washer and dryer and dirty clothes and cleaning supplies -- you could have two doors: one door leading to the upstairs entrance and the other door leading to a downstairs efficiency apartment to make your home a true multi -generational home. If you add a door in the dining area adjacent to the kitchen in the upper/main level to serve as your main level your "back" door, you could create a single entrance in the coldest front corner with two exterior doors: one to serve as both your front entrance and another to access the breezeway. You might consider placing the door to the master bedroom in a wall separating it from the dining room rather than entering the master bedroom from the hallway leading to the other two bedrooms and the one main/upstairs floor bath. If that one main upstairs floor bath is at the end of the hall with the two children's bedrooms on the other side of the house, you might could have two doors entering the bath -- one from the hall and one directly from the master bedroom. Make the front of the roof of your breezeway even with the front of your home and make it wide enough to enable you to have the option of enclosing it later to become a screened porch or even a "sun porch" -- a room that could double as an upper story main boot stomp room. If you tile your entry rooms and have each of them one step below the floor of the rest of that level of your home and include a covered drain in the floor and you could, literally, hose out any mud brought in. Remember that in the northern hemisphere, you'll usually want to put the rooms you want to have the most sun facing the south. Good luck on your new home. Let us know how it turns out....See MoreEmbothrium
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