Hello, and welcome back. So we are still talking about allocating space. And now we're going to talk about the back garden. So we're going to take a slightly different take on it, as we want to design it as a series of other rooms. And when you think about it, most families are going to use the backyard and for entertainment and recreation. So you basically take all of the rooms inside the home and find their outside equivalent in the backyard.

So the living room equivalent would be a large patio, we can have a kitchen or conversation dining area outdoor, we can have a recreational space, which can be lawn or pool area, we can have a utility space, vegetable garden space, cutting garden, whatever the client is desiring. So all of the spaces in the house have their own equivalent. So first, I'm going to create A dominant large space to greet people and for people to sit down also large enough for people to walk around, particularly when the chairs are pullout, also want to get a cooking area, keeping in mind prevailing winds, so the smoke doesn't get into the dining area and also, not with a pathway three out here and the dining area. I can also separate it with a vertical element like counter with bars too, so people can sit down and talk to the person who is cooking.

I'm going to navigate people using different methods of secluding spaces by seating walls, elevations trellising overhead structures, so the space can be protected and use all year round. We can also use planting to do this. I want to control how people are moving around the garden. So all of these different forms of enclosure are to the interest of the carton. The materials you choose and how you interconnect all of these elites out and create a focal point. All of these are just a series of rooms.

So I'm going to go through some photographs of gardens that we worked on to give you some ideas and help you understand the whole concept of breaking the back garden into a series of rooms and how to create those spaces. So in this project, the main patio is on the right hand side, but we were also able to create this small more intimate patio on the left hand side. We broke up the space with our birds and trellising planted with climbers. In this garden, the clients wanted to have a more intimate seating and dining area, so we use natural stone and loads of vertical and low replanting, mostly evergreen, and also the blight color Christian to complement the lush green planting. We put in also low stone walls, just another vertical element that helps to emphasize this entry into the private little garden and sitting. So to do a brief wrap up on design in the back garden, always look at it as a series of outer spaces.

You can take a huge area and break it into smaller zones, you can create a large patio, a small, more intimate patio, you can also use a vertical and overhead planes to give it more interest. You can also take elevation changes and use them to your advantage. For example, every time you send people up to steps, you open their perspective up about the garden. So let's kind of wait for the back garden. And let's sum it up all in the next lesson.