hi everyone welcome back to our Channel
the number one place for designers
artists and creators I'm Jacqueline and
I'm an interior architect and designer
here at DMB today I wanted to show you
how you can create your dream garden in
9 steps that being said let's jump into
the video so the project that we've just
completed here in the studio it was for
a client who wants us to completely
change their garden and I'll be
referring back to this garden project
throughout the whole of this video so
tip number one before you start
designing or drawing anything out is to
establish what sort of style you want
for the garden do you want it to be a
continuation of your interior or to be
something completely contrasting now
here's a breakdown of some garden styles
to help you so we have Scandinavian
Japanese or Zen French contemporary and
modern Mexican Moroccan tropical English
country desert and Mediterranean I hope
that you identify with at least one of
these garden styles once you've chosen
your design style or perhaps even more
than one the second thing that you need
to do is to get inspiration the easiest
way to do this I feel is to create a
Pinterest board and start saving images
you can search for an image and save
them so that you can look back and
create a sense of what you would like
for your garden
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and if that's not possible for you then
even the old-school method of cutting
and sticking out old magazine images
will work perfectly tip number three is
to write down the three things that your
garden must include this is really
important because these are the things
that you will base your design on for
example my clients three things were an
entertainment or dining area or hot tub
and a barbecue area really think about
what is important to you and narrow it
down to three things and that goes on to
my fourth tip which is to create a mood
board more specifically a mood board of
the sort of atmosphere you want to
create
when is the atmosphere I mean the
overall feeling you want in this space
this is for our project for example I
wanted the client to picture themselves
cooking in a bespoke barbecue area and
then go on to eat alfresco as well as be
able to smell all of the fresh herbs and
produce within the garden so I try to
convey that within the images really
identify how you'll feel in the garden
and what activities you'll be doing also
it's important to include elements that
will be big parts of the design such as
the bulb lighting and the circular hot
tub and obviously most importantly add a
few plants and flowers that you'd like
now this tip is to find out what plants
are in season if you want them to
blossom in the summer then you need to
do your research and really find out
what plants are best suited for the
summer all this type of information is
easily accessible on the internet and
also in thousands of books
now this is the fun part they're
designing but before you start to put in
any furniture in the plan or even plants
you need to scale it back and I'll show
you some design guys that will really
really help start out by drawing the
rough shape of your garden I've also
added the clients conservatory at the
front so feel free to add any additional
structural elements then you'll need to
determine the Sun direction you don't
want to place plants that needs sunlight
in a place that's shaded therefore it's
important to work out the direction of
the Sun throughout the day I'm sure you
all know that the Sun rises in the east
and sets in the west
making south-facing Gardens the ideal
Sun traps but if you can't work out the
Sun Direction use the website Sun calc
type in your home address and it will do
all the work for you the next part of
the site diagram is to add noise
pollution wear around your garden is the
loudest
are there any roads surrounding are
there any pedestrian paths or alleyways
by doing this it will help you to
determine where to place certain things
for example my client has a main road at
the front of their house and an alleyway
at the back so therefore you'd be stupid
to place the Entertainment's area at the
back of the garden the next thing to do
is add the wind direction all this
information can be accessed online as
well of course this will make sure that
you don't position your seating areas in
a place that's exposed to the elements
the next step is to add structural
elements that's already there such as
fencing or anything that cannot be moved
and in the same way add large trees and
bushes that you want to key as the
design will have to work around this
once you've done this you can start to
map out the main structural elements ie
the shed the hot tub and the decking
area ok so tip number seven is
circulation this will help you determine
how you want people to move throughout
your garden let me show you what I mean
by that
the conservatory is the
first point and then that leads onto a
decking area then within the decking
area is the entertainment space a
cooking area and in the center there's
the steps that lead to the garden the
garden is pretty much comprised of a
grass lawn and to the writer that is the
jacuzzi and two flowerbeds that lie with
either side and right at the back corner
you have the shed by doing this you
really define the different zones and
spaces within your garden tip number
eight is furniture fixtures and
equipment this is almost like a database
of all the things that you're going to
purchase so your materials your
furniture any plants paint absolutely
everything you're going to account for
this will give you a real indication of
how much everything will cost in the
overall outcome and maybe you can scale
it back a bit if you need to I'm using
Adobe InDesign but you can use Excel or
PowerPoint or even just some info on
your phone or a piece of paper as long
as you know all of the prices and
calculations of all of the materials are
most importantly how much you'll need so
the quantity of for example wooden posts
or how many paintings you'll need tip
number nine is to draw everything out
and you can be as detailed as you want
to be here but I would suggest always
using color to give a real indication of
what plants and furniture are going to
be there
now I really want to stress that you do
not have to be brilliant at drawing you
don't have to be an artist here you just
need to know that it's only you who
needs to understand the drawing and play
around until you are completely happy
with the design
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as I'm a designer I would usually go on
and create a 3d rendered animation for
my clients so that they can really
immerse themselves within their design
but obviously that is not necessary for
you at all so don't worry about that
here are some real quick tips that I
want to give you number one is don't buy
wooden furniture for those of you who
have had wooden furniture in the past
and you know the issues that can cause
especially living in England the weather
is not reliable most of the time it
rains which means that the wood will rot
but wood can also warp in the Sun so I
would Vera way from that would just take
so much maintenance anyway and you'll
probably find yourself
revonnah shing things in the future so I
would just stay away from that when
you're planting make sure that you
actually leave room for the plants to
grow oftentimes people will just buy as
much as they can in the garden sensor
plants everything and then the plants
fail because they don't have room to
grow so make sure that you leave gaps
okay so those are my top tips on how to
design your dream garden if you want to
see how our garden project turned out
I'll leave a link at the end of this
video and if you're new then welcome
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