Preparing For My Meeting With The Landscape Designer

Hey there! I didn’t deliberately ghost y’all final week. 😀 Tuesday was my birthday, and we had some plans for that, after which I had different enjoyable issues deliberate all through the week. So I simply gave up on the thought of engaged on the home and having progress to share with you. However I did get again to engaged on the toilet on Saturday and Sunday, so progress is being made. However right this moment is my assembly with the panorama designer, and I’m so excited at hand over my jumbled mess of concepts and see how he places them collectively and is sensible of them.

I used to be engaged on the toilet yesterday, and round 7:30pm, I had a little bit of a panic. I noticed that I had nothing on paper (or on-line) to point out the panorama designer the long run plans we’ve for the home because it pertains to the lot. And I didn’t have that as a result of I didn’t even know that data myself. I imply, I’ve common concepts, however nothing actually concrete. However the very last thing I would like is for somebody at hand me landscaping concepts based mostly on what the again of our home and our empty lot seems to be like proper now since we’ve so many modifications deliberate.

That is what our home seems to be like now…

However that little room off of the grasp rest room was the unique grasp rest room, and it’s really utterly closed off now. There’s no approach to entry it from inside the home, but it surely’ll keep there till we construct the addition. After which that massive sunroom may even be torn down.

After these are eliminated, we’ll add on a brand new master suite, laundry room, and household/media room. So the ground plan will finally seem like this…

So I needed to get an concept of the brand new format in relation to the lot measurement, together with issues that I hadn’t actually nailed down, like a deck. And since we’re retaining the carport as a carport, I wanted to determine the place I wish to finally construct my workshop. (Observe: There’s at all times confusion about my studio vs. my workshop. The studio is the place I’ve my residence workplace space, and the place I work on tasks like stitching, artwork, and so on. The workshop is the place my woodworking instruments will go — saws, sanders, and so on. Something that produces sawdust and mess will go within the workshop.)

After taking some very tough measurements of our lot (which isn’t straightforward to do with a 20-foot tape measure on a one-acre lot 😀 ), I bought out my graph paper and began drawing. Right here’s what I got here up with…

The place the again of our home presently has a variety of angles and turns, the ultimate format might be squared off on the again. After which off of the again of the home, I would like a big deck that may be accessed from the French doorways in the master suite in addition to the French doorways within the household/media room.

The driveway was initially fairly quick, and was only a straight shot from the road to the entrance of the studio, which was initially the storage. So the brand new driveway (which I’m fairly certain might be gravel) must curve round to the facet of the home, lacking a pecan tree that sits to the correct (and that I hope to maintain because it nonetheless produces a lot of pecans), to the facet of the home, to the carport, and even method past to the workshop. Now you see why it could break the bank to make use of concrete for all of that. 🙂

So far as the workshop goes, I’d prefer it to be about 20′ x 30′. I’d just like the again of it that faces the driveway and facet fence to have a storage door on it in order that I can simply get massive gadgets like full sheets of plywood/MDF into the workshop from the truck. After which I’d like a facet door that’s a straight shot from the again French doorways within the studio for simple entry that method. After which I’d just like the “entrance” of the workshop to face in direction of the yard with a really cute entrance door, possibly a bit of porch, home windows, and so on. I would like it to seem like a bit of cottage sitting there going through the in in direction of the open space within the again yard.

After which you may see the strolling path circling the whole thing. I nonetheless have my heard set on that. I can envision flower beds, sitting areas, and so on., all alongside that strolling path.

So hopefully this may give the panorama designer a leaping off level, and he will help me fill in the remaining. And naturally, he can inform me what sorts of crops I must put all all through, as a result of that’s the place I get utterly misplaced. I don’t know crops in any respect, and I don’t know what is going to develop the place. I’m in determined want of some skilled assist. 😀

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