Arrangement of a summer cottage (54 photos): design of the house territory, recreation areas, garden and garden

The arrangement of a summer cottage with your own hands is a process that can be confidently called continuous. Every year, coming out of town, we find many objects that deserve our close attention: here we need to correct the rickety fence, lay the path here, but it would be nice to equip the flowerbed.

And although to describe every detail of this process, a whole encyclopedia may not be enough, below we will try to collect a number of the most useful recommendations. Following them, you can streamline your work and significantly increase their effectiveness. So there will still be time for rest!

On any site you can “bring beauty.” The main thing is to think over everything in advance!

Separation of a summer house into zones

Before equipping a summer cottage, you need to conditionally divide its area into functional areas. Of course, it is advisable to do this even at the design stage, but also to restore order in the country, which is actively operated, this will also not be superfluous.

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Experts distinguish three main zones:

Residential, which includes the house and house territory. Here, communications (water, electricity, sewage), paths and access roads are priority, as well as the features of the building itself. The main factors that are worth paying attention to will be comfort and security.
Recreational – everything related to rest (active and not very). Perhaps, examples of arranging a summer cottage here will be the most diverse, ranging from terraces and lawns and ending with open -air simulators, basketball venues, tennis courts, etc.

Even with minimal costs, you can equip a cozy recreation area

Sadovo-ombus. Here you can turn on both a front garden with flowers and an alpine hill in front of the house and a greenhouse with extensions for inventory. However, the main part of this zone, of course, is the garden and beds, which can be considered an integral part of almost every cottage.

When we equip a summer cottage with our own hands, we should visually divide these zones among themselves, placing them so that they do not intersect. In this case, our stay outside the city will turn out to be much more comfortable, since we can easily switch from one type of activity to another, and at the same time we will not interfere with each other.

Tips for the design of a country house

The house territory

As for practical recommendations, they can be given quite a lot.

We will try to limit ourselves to only the most important ones, and we will start with those that relate directly to the territory near the house:

Gravel tamping at the entrance: it will be difficult to cope with it with your own hands, it is better to use the services of construction equipment

One of the key points that are worth paying attention to will be the arrangement of entry to the country site. For this purpose, either a platform from gravel (a layer of 50 cm, a fraction of 25-35 mm), or a monolithic plate made of concrete/asphalt concrete is usually equipped. The price of the second option is much higher, but the concrete coating is much easier to maintain clean.

Pay attention!
An important element of the entrance platform is a drainage ditch, which provides rainwater withdrawal.

The site in front of the house usually connects to all other objects on the site through paths. The arrangement of the paths of a summer cottage with your own hands can take place according to a variety of schemes. The cheapest option is to fill with gravel, but if your financial capabilities allow this, then you can lay out all the paths with paving slabs on a sand pillow or a concrete monolithic base.

Laying paving slabs on the sand base

Also on the house territory it is worth installing a summer canopy from the rain. It can only close a small area in front of the porch, and can cover the entire site, including a place for car parking. Typically, such awnings are mounted on steel supports, and translucent polycarbonate is used as a coating.
An important factor providing comfort will also be lighting the adjacent territory. Naturally, this is necessary for a stable energy supply, and the rental of a diesel engine – a generator for a summer residence: even when the electrician is disconnected without light, you will not be left.

Recreation area

If you do not know where to start the layout of the recreational section, then we recommend that you think about creating a summer laws or flower beds:

For this purpose, we distinguish a small territory that neither the house nor high trees will shade. If there is a need, then we bring fertile soil to the site, carefully level it and sow with lawn herbs.

A lawn

Pay attention!
Lawn herbs are resistant to trampling, however, they must be regularly cut.

You can also break the alpine slide on such a site. We spread its basis from natural stone: limestone is best suited, a little worse – granite or quartzite. The gaps between the stones are poured with fertile soil into which we plant the plants.
Finally, if you have a large territory empty, then you can make a pond on it. Of course, for digging and concreting the bowl itself you will have to work hard, because today special plastic containers are gaining popularity today, which are installed over the soil level.

Photo of a homemade alpine slide

Garden and garden

When deciding how to equip a small summer cottage, many of us pay the main attention of the part on which you can grow vegetables and fruits.

This approach can be recognized quite rational, however, here it is worth adhering to a number of recommendations:

Firstly, the beds must be placed in such a way that there is enough light for them. That is why, in the immediate vicinity of the country house, trees are usually planted, and the garden is broken at the distance – so it will not be shaded throughout the day.

Pay attention!
This does not apply to trellicous plants: for them, the site is usually taken either next to the garden, or even under the crowns of trees.

Country beds

Especially carefully you need to choose a place to install greenhouses. In addition to a sufficient amount of sunlight, this territory should be protected from the wind, especially in the spring.
The beds themselves should be finished from the paths with sides of boards or plastic shields: there will be no chernozem will not be lost, and we will apply dirt to the recreation area and in the house much less.

Installation of a colodeous pump for watering

To ensure quite abundant watering in the dry period, it is worth considering such an option as the arrangement of a well in a summer cottage. Despite all the labor costs with which this event is fraught with, it can be considered justified: so we will not only provide ourselves with high -quality water for drinking and irrigation, but also insure from disconnecting the water supply, which usually occur at the most inopportune moment.
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Well, if growing vegetables for you is a sufficiently serious hobby, then in the garden you should equip your own pumping station. Such an installation will make it possible to water the beds from the hose, and mount an economical, but effective drip irrigation system.

Conclusion

Options for arranging a summer cottage, as well as recommendations for the implementation of certain works can be listed endlessly. The main thing here is to understand what exactly we want from our cottage, to plan work and begin to the systematic implementation of our project. This can take this for more than one year, but if we are guided by tips similar to those that are set forth on the video in this article, then we will definitely succeed.