A look Under the Hood: How to Draw a Landscape Design Plan
Same as a floor plan, a landscape design represents visually any site using scaled dimensions. Usually, landscape plans include both — natural objects, like flowers, trees, and grass and man-made objects such as lawn furniture, fountains, ponds and sheds. It may also include overlays for irrigation and lighting elements.
You will need objects like:
Flowers and Grass
Garden Accessories
Garden Furniture
Garden Paths and Walkways
Home Plan
Outdoor Recreation Space
Patios
Plots and Fences
Ponds and Fountains
Roofs
Transparent Trees
Steps to Creating a Landscape Design Plan
Set the page size in your drawing tool. This will give the understanding of your scale and borders.
Place a Rectangular plot without fence, set a size equal your site. Surround your site with a fence.
Add a Stone arch to your drawing, use Rotate option to place an object in needed position.
Add Patio object. Your Base layer is ready, name it and lock from changes and add another working layer.
Pick patio roof — fill its pattern, e.g. wooden. Add some fences, extend sides.
Draw a house base using Patio object, change the color and filling pattern.
Add Stone stairs, set the color and size. Duplicate and rotate to add another stairs level.
Tip: Use Snapping to place figures more precisely regarding each other.
Add house roof , add road or path.
Go to the next layer and begin to draw water parts. Add Round fountain object to the drawing.
Drop a Pond object — adjust the color and size.
Draw a coast line using Garden path stones, this looks good if it’s a puzzle shaped. Add a bridge and some plants to the pond.
Let’s start planning a leisure zone near a pond — Add Patio table and chairs.
Bring some outdoor lights to the leisure zone. Arrange flowerpots on the territory. Add benches, more plants and trees.
If you using an appropriate software like ConceptDraw or service for creating landscape plans, there is no needs to have a professional skills on landscape and garden design. As well as you don’t need to be an expert in architectural charts and plans drawing. All you need is the library with objects with ability to edit them and create your own.
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