1, sun room
Five-storey houses with elevators are generally large in size, so it is not necessary to make all courtyards into sun rooms, some of which can be sun rooms and some can be open-air gardens. The advantage of the sun room is to increase the indoor use area, shelter from the wind and rain, and improve the utilization rate of the yard in four seasons. Sunroom can be made into greenhouse, living room, tea room, study and other spaces. The disadvantage of the sun room is that it is suspected of illegal construction, and it may not be allowed to be built, or it may be demolished after it is completed, blocking the sight of neighbors and causing neighborhood disputes. For example, the newly-built sun room is close to the building, and thieves enter the neighbor's house upstairs from the sun room, causing the neighbor to be stolen.
2, open-air garden
For multi-storey houses, it is a good choice to make an open-air garden in the courtyard on the first floor. But if the community is greener and the environment is better, it will be a waste to make a garden in your own yard. The advantages of open-air garden are good scenery and good mood, which can be used as an important place for daily leisure life, such as raising flowers and raising fish; Disadvantages are that daily care needs to be taken care of, spring sowing and autumn harvest are laborious, and mosquitoes disturb in summer and autumn, which is more water-consuming.
Personal recommendation
It's better to be a well-planned yard. If the local urban management is not strict, and the community also has a sun room, you can make a sun room of about 20 square meters in the yard. If it is not allowed, you can set up a balcony or pavilion to shelter from the wind and rain in the open air as an area for enjoying the cool, sunbathing and watching the scenery in the yard every day. The rest are decorated with green plants, herbal flowers, some fruits and a small fish pond.
It is better to design a small courtyard with exquisite landscape, leisure and beauty according to your own needs, personal preferences and surrounding environment. You can find professionals to do landscape design, you can also collect information yourself, or you can plan and design with reference to the decoration of the small courtyard in the community. Consider local weather, climate, customs, geomantic omen, landscape lighting, etc.
For example, the ground is hardened in a large area, non-slip floor tiles or permeable bricks are made, some flower ponds are made, flowers are planted, small waterscape rockeries are set up, umbrellas are arranged, leisure tables and chairs are set up, barbecue areas are set up, and the rest are made into green spaces, or vegetable fields and corridors are arranged.