Small Garden Design - Week 9
Deciding how much space each area needs
You know what it’s like when you sit down at the garden table and you feel squashed. There isn’t room to push your chair out, and others have to squeeze past you. Or maybe your chair teeters on the brink of the terrace and you feel you could tip at any point.
The space needs to be right for the size of table you want. Just as you’d do with your furniture inside, do the same outside. It’s the same principle.
This is the point where we need to get the size of the horizontal surface area right:
You can absolutely start this small garden design course at any time:
Or you can simply observe - however you feel. You might want to see how this relates to your own space, whatever stage it’s at.
Here’s a round-up of everything we’ve looked at so far here:
Week 1:
Week 2:
Week 3:
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
You might just be observing out of interest rather than following along - we’d love a ❤️ and to hear your thoughts too!
When you get to this stage, there’s a possibility that you may get stuck. You’ll have chosen all the words for your garden style and atmosphere - the ‘feel’ of the space - and you’ll have decided pretty much where everything is going.
You’ll have worked out where to put things - zoning - and you’ll also be thinking about the route around the garden which joins all these areas up and creates an interesting journey.
But when it comes to how big different areas are, it can be tricky to know what space to allocate to what: