Now, based on a good friend's experience of living with a yard on the first floor for more than half a year, I would like to share with you some shortcomings of the house with a yard on the first floor and what not to do. What should I pay attention to when buying a house with a yard on the first floor?
1. Don't design a large area of waterscape in the yard. Many people like it. Whether water means "wealth" or not, make a waterscape and raise some fish in the yard. This is part of the original intention of many people to choose a small yard.
However, as long as it is not that kind of villa yard and the attached courtyard is not large, it is not recommended to do waterscape. After all, the first floor is already very wet, so it is impossible to make large-scale water features in the yard. If nothing else, wet and breeding mosquitoes can't cope with it.
If we really like the waterscape, we bought a house with a courtyard on the first floor, just to flush the waterscape, so don't rush to play with a reservoir to make the waterscape. We deliberately made some changes. We raised some large jars of water lilies and bowls of lilies in the yard, and raised some fish, which could still set off the waterscape.
Don't plant too dense green plants around the yard. Although there is a nearby yard on the first floor, it is surrounded by roads and has poor privacy. If the courtyard wall is closed, it will affect lighting, ventilation and lighting. Many people will think of covering it with plants.
However, many people have the right idea, but they have no experience in this field. They planted too dense and too tall green plants. After several years of growth, they are more serious than closed courtyard walls, and even the residents upstairs will have opinions. And I'm sure the lighting is poor and there is no ventilation, which affects the darkness and humidity in the room.
Moreover, if you really want to protect your privacy and isolate your yard from the outside world, it looks like a "prison". It is best to have a certain communication function with the outside world while ensuring privacy.
For example, it is good to use some relatively open guardrails, such as stepped guardrails, or large gaps, or wrought iron guardrails.
If you are going to build it with green plants, you can choose some low shrubs, such as popular vine roses, honeysuckle, windmill jasmine and so on, which have both value and privacy.
If there is a reasonable proportion of green plants that like to grow flowers in the yard, then I will plant flowers and plants in all the small yards. He likes growing vegetables, and the yard is full of vegetables and fruits. He may only leave a few paths at most. Many people like to spread the lawn all over the yard. Some people will flock to these designs because "carrots and vegetables have their own tastes".
Let's not talk about execution. Think that everyone can turn their small yard into a beautiful small garden, a small vegetable garden or simply a prairie, which is both practical and beautiful.
Then, have you ever thought about the problem of humidity, especially in rainy season, whether it is a beautiful small garden, vegetable garden or lawn, it is easy to accumulate water. If you don't do it for a long time, it will definitely affect the interior. In order to be dry and clean indoors, it is impossible to do all the greening in the yard, and it must be hardened.
The hardened area can be arranged according to your own design and preference, but it must be hardened around the outer wall. As for hardening materials, we can choose to lay tiles and harden them directly with cement, or use crushed stone heads or fire boards, or crushed stone. This not only protects the indoor dryness through hardening, but also does not delay the construction of small gardens and vegetable gardens.
4. Layout of planting flowers, trees and vegetables. It should be reasonable. As mentioned above, most of the owners who buy the first floor yard come to the yard. In a small courtyard, we can plant flowers, vegetables and trees in it, mainly according to the preferences of individuals or family members, to create our ideal small courtyard.
However, even a small courtyard with limited area should have a reasonable layout. As the saying goes, "Spring flowers, summer flowers, autumn fruits and winter branches". Only in this way can the small courtyard have scenery to enjoy all year round.
What is a reasonable layout? For example, if you want to plant one or two fruit trees or flowering shrubs in a small yard, it is best to stay away from the house. It can prevent these trees from affecting indoor light when they grow up. Simply put, reasonable layout means density and choice.
Another, flowers, green plants and vegetables in the small yard are easy to grow, but the maintenance is cumbersome and requires regular care, such as pulling grass, loosening soil, watering and fertilizing, pruning, cleaning up dead branches and rotten leaves, etc.
Written at the end: my friend lived for more than half a year and talked to me about a house with a yard on the first floor. I said that in order to live comfortably, we must optimize these four functions. If you also like a house with a yard on the first floor, you should pay attention to these four aspects when building your own yard.