Big Design Small Budget – Show Notes

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Exterior-Interior Design – Big Design Small Budget

• Tools for landscape expression
  • Plants
  • Hardscape
  • Ornament

• Easy landscaping ideas you can do

  • Transition indoor and outdoor spaces
    • Blend structure of home into landscape
    • Effective on most home styles
    • Plants – structure, symmetry, masking
  • Contrast built structure to environment
    • Less common practice
    • Looks good with modernism, seaside, southwestern, and unique styles
    • Simple plantings contrast features of home
  • Express your home
    • Characterize feel, ambience of home
    • Very interpretive, artistic process
    • Examples: relaxing, clean & tidy, cozy, modern, cottage, industrial
    • Utilize plants, ornament, and hardscape
  • Where to start low maintenance landscaping
    • Best transition points
      • Porch
      • Entry room
    • Potted plants
    • Simple accents

• Common low maintenance landscaping mistakes

  • Poor access
  • Clutter
  • Planting without planning
    • Wrong plants
    • Utility, structure, and hardscape issues
  • Too much lawn
  • Not budgeting for landscape design
• How to find mistakes
  • What takes extra work
  • What causes problems
  • What looks ugly or feels unnecessary
  • diseased plants, foundation problems, routine trimming
• Fixing and avoiding low maintenance landscaping mistakes
  • Plan first, plant last
  • Plan for maturity of plants
  • consider long term maintenance needs
  • Account for plant needs – sun, soil, etc
  • Account for utilities and existing structures
  • Avoid solo plantings and impulse buys