Landscape Planning
Planning is important for any project, but proper planning is the key to a successful landscape. An integral part in landscape planning is measuring the plot you are planning to use for landscaping. Quite a good number of people will find it intimidating and at the same time difficult to measure the plot correctly. It is therefore important to find the easiest possible ways of making measuring easy and in fact enjoyable.
As you are or are not aware, you can get a plat map of your home from a developer or your builder. This will act as a design guide to help you achieve accuracy by to show you the exact location of each utility in the plot. Of course, you will not use the plat map in designing, but it would be a lot simpler when you transpose the scale. If everything is as it should be, you already have a sketch plan.
If you do not get a plat map, you can use a graph paper to design your plan. Ensure the graph paper’s grids equal the scale you intend to use in your design. The scale you choose should be able to fit in a single sheet of the graph paper and this you can only achieve after you take measurement of the perimeter of the whole lot.
The simplest way that you can measure your landscape accurately is starting the measuring process from the front or from the back yard.
The easiest way to accurately measure a landscape is to start in either the front or the back yard. Mark the measurements from the frontage corners of your house to the frontage of the property lines and repeat marking the measurements from the frontage curves to the side property lines as you record on your graph.
Measure angles and exterior walls of the house as you sketch them on the graph paper seeking to have an accurate template. Repeat the measurements at the backyard, from the back corners of the house to the back property lines, not excluding decks, driveways, sidewalks etc. After this exercise, you will have an accurate base design of a landscape-planning pattern that you will work with. As you do this, keep in mind that all the great landscapes that you come across everyday were because of proper planning
