explore these key fundamental elements that can make or break your home. It is important first to take note that the landscape surrounding your home is an extension of the home itself, and how it blends and compliments the home affects the energies surrounding it.
1 THE ENTRY
The entry is the most important gateway into the home and how you treat the way you enter your home affects how you feel when you approach the home. For example, in this scenario, there are a few elements to take note of. First, the external treatment of the walls is in a stone finish, which reflects a bold, hard look, which again is reflected on the ground and boundary walls, thereby enforcing the masculine effect. Secondly, the protruding wing of the house seems to indicate a secondary entrance, so it is imperative to highlight which entrance is the main and which is the secondary.
Through the introduction of plants and lights, this subtle yet effective approach offers a simple design solution. By adding the element of green plants, it automatically downplays the hard, masculine effect of the stone feature and helps to soften it, creating a more inviting feel.
Next, the entrance pathway is placed asymmetrical to the main entrance door to prevent a straight direct line to the main door, but this also helps to manage the speed with which we enter the home. By creating an asymmetrical approach, it allows the user to appreciate the landscape in its totality, as it then stands as an element on its own that complements the house, rather than landscape that has no connection to the home.
Lights are introduced as well to serve two purposes - to create a travel path of entry and to direct our visual direction towards the landscape rather than to the hard look of the stone effect walls.
The entry is the most important gateway into the home and how you treat the way you enter your home affects how you feel when you approach the home. For example, in this scenario, there are a few elements to take note of. First, the external treatment of the walls is in a stone finish, which reflects a bold, hard look, which again is reflected on the ground and boundary walls, thereby enforcing the masculine effect. Secondly, the protruding wing of the house seems to indicate a secondary entrance, so it is imperative to highlight which entrance is the main and which is the secondary.
Through the introduction of plants and lights, this subtle yet effective approach offers a simple design solution. By adding the element of green plants, it automatically downplays the hard, masculine effect of the stone feature and helps to soften it, creating a more inviting feel.
Next, the entrance pathway is placed asymmetrical to the main entrance door to prevent a straight direct line to the main door, but this also helps to manage the speed with which we enter the home. By creating an asymmetrical approach, it allows the user to appreciate the landscape in its totality, as it then stands as an element on its own that complements the house, rather than landscape that has no connection to the home.
Lights are introduced as well to serve two purposes - to create a travel path of entry and to direct our visual direction towards the landscape rather than to the hard look of the stone effect walls.
2 CREATING A PRIVATE OASISThe placement of water features can create different moods and effects around the house. For example, by creating a central pool feature with rooms overlooking, it helps create a resort-style feel which accentuates a sense of a private sanctuary. Vegetation should not be too dense, and should be varied in texture and species to give the feel of serenity and calm. The key element here is to create a balance between water and plants whereby neither element dominates the other; else you lose the tranquility essence of the space.
3 WORKING WITH WATERDepending on the location, sometimes we are faced with a scenario where we want a certain element to dominate the space in order to create a link. For example, in this scenario, the need for the swimming pool to dominate the central space is vital, as it not only creates a direct link with the home, but causes it to blend in seamlessly with the river beyond.
By it doing so, it allows the house and landscape to merge in totality, so rather than living in a house that views the river in the distance, we are able to pull the river into the vicinity of the house through the use of the swimming pool.
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