I have a dream - to build a big beautiful house With beautiful landscape in the courtyard. There are no funds yet, so construction is not expected to be urgent. I looked through many options, including buying an apartment in the city. But having rented for 2 years 3 room apartment on the 4th floor without an elevator, and having felt all the “delights” of a stone anthill, my wife and I came to the conclusion that we needed to take the plot and slowly build and improve the surrounding area. I will post all the nuances of construction on the blog - maybe it will be useful to someone. And so, with the onset of vacation, I began to look for a plot near the city, because... the land in the city is “golden”. I considered many options, including in the neighboring area. And here you have a plot of land in the ad that you can only dream of: 5 acres, gas, electricity, an almost finished large FBS foundation, good-quality houses are being built nearby. 150 meters away there is a beautiful pine grove, from where you can constantly hear the beautiful singing of the feathered owners of the forest. The Belaya River is located 400 meters from the site, and beyond the river you can see a forest, behind which, in turn, in good clear weather you can see the white caps of mighty mountains. All this beauty is located practically in the city, at the beginning of the dacha area. Dacha land It doesn’t bother me at all - build calmly, register the construction, register and live for yourself. Stop, shops 100 meters away. And all this for reasonable money, which I, of course, didn’t have. I quickly ran to the bank and took out a loan. Now I'm in bondage - :). But everything in this life requires sacrifice, you need to try, move forward along the intended path. Our whole life is a constant overcoming of obstacles. So you need to try. You have to make sacrifices. Therefore, I think that I need to slowly part with my iron friends. First, I will sell my gray front-wheel drive assistant. And a little later, I think I’ll hire a real helper on the farm - Great Wall Deer or Sailor. You can climb on a budget and do the housework, and you can climb in big mud. A real frame family SUV. But, somehow I got distracted. Not about that now.
Here, in fact, is the minimum list of what needs to be done first (the list is links to future entries):
1. Re-registration of documents for the site;
2. Setting the boundaries of the site on the ground;
3. Search for the occurrence of the aquifer;
4. Drilling a well (after all, builders need water);
5. Filling the armored belt;
6. Work on installing a septic tank;
7. Laying blocks of the first floor;
8. Pouring the ceiling between floors;
9. Laying blocks of the attic floor;
10. Roofing work;
11. Communications layout;
12. Pouring the stairs;
13. Filling the balcony;
14. Insertion of windows and doors;
15. Laying facing bricks;
16. Interior decoration;
17. Fencing the site;
18. Laying yard tiles;
19. Landscape design and gardening.
As you can see, there is still a lot of work to be done. According to preliminary calculations, the construction budget will be 2–2.5 million rubles. total area will be approximately 200 sq. meters. Do you still want to buy 50 squares of stone anthill for this money? :).
When planning the design of a plot of 5 acres, try to change the entire space with maximum benefit. Here you won’t be able to build something grandiose or create a magnificent flower bed, but you can create beautiful green oases. The main thing is to clearly plan, calculate and think through everything, and only then begin to implement ideas. Listen to our recommendations and you will succeed.
Planning
To plan and design small area, you need to decide:
- What to plant?
- Where will the paths go?
- What buildings will be on the site and where exactly will they be located?
Before making a plan, gather as a family and consult. Let everyone express their wishes, what would they like to see on the site? Then the head of the family will decide whether the builders will actually build it or he will do it with his own hands. What kind of garden to plant, the type of trees and bushes with flower beds and where to plant them, etc.
Remember that you and your children, and possibly grandchildren, are relaxing at your dacha. It should be interesting for the whole family. For kids you can put beautiful houses in the form of mushrooms or huts, make a roller track for teenagers. You can lay out a platform or patio near the house, where in the evenings, or whenever you wish, the whole family can sit at the samovar and chat.
To landscape design summer cottage 5 acres looked original, artificial hills are being created. For the hills, take the soil that remains after constructing the paths and bring the required amount. Experts call this change in landscape geoplasticity.
Stone stairs are laid out on the hills and it is easy and interesting to run along them. Plant coniferous trees at the top. In winter, go sledding and skiing with them. Clearly decide in which zone what will be located, lay paths in the right places. Try to show your imagination as much as possible and do everything with taste.
Plants
To refine the design garden plot 5 acres , choose plants that will delight and grow actively in summer and winter. Best Buy perennials and plant coniferous trees. This will make it easier to care for the garden. Check out the plants that are great for landscaping, beautiful in summer and in winter:
- Athena or mountain pine. In summer it is green, and in winter it turns yellow;
- Prickly spruce;
- Batten Rouge or white turf. In winter, its branches become hog-colored and reddish;
- Heather is frost-resistant, which grows from August until the snow.
landscaping
Start designing small plot from landscaping. Make a flowerbed, plant a lawn, make rockeries and slides. To plant a lawn, prepare the soil. Dig up that area, level it and compact it a little.
Sow the area with sprouted seeds of a special variety of grass for lawns or purchase rolls of grass and carefully lay them out on the area. It is expensive and requires frequent watering. Lawns are divided into types:
- common meadow;
- special for hillsides located near bodies of water;
- parterres, the surface of which is smooth and almost perfect;
- Moorish, in which lovely wildflowers grow.
When caring for the lawn, it is regularly watered thoroughly, weeded and weeds are removed, and when it grows, it is cut. Flower beds can be planted:
- flower beds (they are of the correct shape);
- rock garden (plants adjacent to stones);
- curbs (near paths);
- rabatkam (flowers are arranged in 1 m or 1.5 m stripes);
- mixborders (oblong flower bed and early and late plants);
- alpine slides (on a hill where there are stones, coniferous trees, flowers, bushes).
Water
And in a small area you can place a pond. Equip a small waterfall, dig and arrange a neat pond. The shore and bottom can be decorated with round-shaped stones or with sharp, uneven edges. Nowadays even ready-made plastic reservoirs are sold. To install one, dig a hole of the required depth and shape, and place a plastic mold there. Bury and decorate with stones (natural or decorative), pebbles, plant plants living in water to suit your taste (reeds, sedge, yellow capsule, cattail, water lily and others).
Place stones nicely along the sides. If you really want at least a small pond, bury a bathtub or barrel and decorate it with stones and plants. If the area allows and there is a desire, you can make a stream or place a source in a stone slide, and then let it cascade down the stones. Special mechanisms for creating such beauty are sold.
To prevent water from leaking, the bottom will need to be lined with films, then masked. The equipment for creating a source is expensive and not every summer resident will be able to purchase it. Usually, such a composition is made by masters. This requires experience and quality performance.
Decorate
Paths around the dacha can be made from natural or decorative stone. Round timber made from hard wood looks original. You can make your own: gazebos, put up benches, bee bread and plant them here climbing plants(honeysuckle honeysuckle, campsis or wisteria). Plant bushes here.
Many people like it when there are small coniferous trees in the composition:
- boxwood;
- juniper;
- pine trees;
These trees do not need special care, just water regularly when they are small and in the summer, when there is a drought. They decorate and improve the area all year round.
Planning
Try to plan correctly and rely on the following:
- Plant trees where the soil is suitable. Remember, they will grow up and think in advance whether they will disturb the neighbors?
- Choose a convenient location for your home. Place it near the road.
The zones will be combined in any case, and you should consider these tricks when planning your site:
- Plant tall flowers or bushes near the compost pit so that it does not spoil the design;
- Plant raspberry, currant and gooseberry bushes along the garden;
- Lay out the children's playground so that it is visible from the windows of the kitchen or room where you spend a lot of time and constantly monitor the children, doing the necessary things.
This is how you can plan an area of 5 acres:
- raspberry;
- house 5 by 6 m, plus a terrace;
- car parking;
- children's swing in the form of a sofa;
- garden;
- vineyard;
- rose garden;
- 2 by 3 m bath;
- toilet;
- a pond where a stream flows and beautiful water lilies grow.
If you plan to plant a lawn, then purchase a lawn mower. Cut your grown hair every week. Place vegetable beds right in the center of a large lawn. Enclose it with a decorative colored border or small fence.
Do not leave the black soil under the scorching sun, but cover it. So in nature, last year’s grass remains on the ground and leaves fall. Add straw, shredded bark, gravel, any nut shells, or compost. Take care of the valuable fertile soil layer.
When planning the design of a summer cottage plot of 5 acres, think through everything carefully. Divide the area into zones. Build a house in this. In another, plant a vegetable garden with flower beds. Make an alpine slide there. There is a pond here, etc.
House project for a small plot No. 9-250 has overall dimensions of 6x13.5 m within the internal contour of the enclosing walls. The height of the premises from floor to ceiling is 2.7 m, which is sufficient and optimal for these areas. Increasing the floor height is undesirable, as this will complicate the staircase designs, increase the cost of the house and impair ease of use. The design of a house for a small plot involves the use of a 1.6 m deep basement, which optimally uses the entire volume of the building, as well as the territory land plot. Architectural solution made using a combination of rectangular and round volumes of different heights and configurations, which gives the building an original look in the style of a small castle.
Perspective of house No. 2 View on a plot of 6 acres
Basement plan First floor plan
Plan of the second attic floor
Cottage indicators
Designs and materials used
| Foundation |
Monolithic reinforced concrete slab |
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Load-bearing enclosing walls |
 Option 1: brick with internal foam glass filling: brick 380 mm load-bearing part + foam glass 100-140 mm (determined by calculation) + 120 mm front brick verst Click on the drawing |
brick |
| foam glass |
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 Option 2: Carrier brickwork 380 mm; |
brick |
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| mineral wool | ||
| façade panel | ||
| Internal load-bearing walls | Brick | |
| Partitions | brick (bathrooms), frame covered with plasterboard sheets (interior) | |
| Floors | precast concrete slabs | sq.m. |
| Roof |
attic, rafter system, wooden, with mineral wool insulation; covering metal tiles or flexible bitumen type "Katepal" | sq.m. |
| Window | double-chamber double-glazed window in PVC profile (heated volume) | 20 pcs. |
| single glazing in PVC profile (cold verandas, balcony, basement) | 10 pieces. |
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