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What the site must keep

Keep the footprint

The house outline stays a void you route around

Keep the boundaries

Paths and planting stop at the lot line

Keep the doors

Walks still meet the doors already in the photo

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Example of a site whose house footprint stays put

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Draw paths and levels around a footprint that stays put

Paths, levels, and planting masses are the work. The house footprint and the boundaries stay. A cleaner route does not get to slide the building, and a thicker hedge does not get to borrow the neighbor side of the line.

Footprint fixed. Boundaries fixed. The ground between them can be redrawn.

Seven pictures of one lot

The path, the grade, the planting mass, the footprint, the boundary, the door, and a second layout each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.

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    Where feet actually cross the lot

    A path still begins and ends at a door or a gate the house already has.

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    Grade as outdoor floors

    Steps and a low wall can be restudied. Soil does not climb the house wall.

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    Planting masses, not a list

    A hedge or a shrub block is one volume. A cultivar list is another page.

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    The footprint stays a void

    The house outline is routed around. It does not shrink to widen a walk.

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    The lot line is the edge

    A thicker hedge does not get to borrow the neighbor side of the line.

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    Doors the walks must meet

    A cleaner route still arrives at the threshold already in the photo.

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    A second layout of the same lot

    Try another path without sliding the building.

Paths

Where feet actually cross the lot

A path is a route with a reason: front walk, side passage, a way to the bins that does not scrape the foundation. Paths can be realigned. They still have to begin and end at doors and gates the house footprint already sets.

Levels

Grade is a series of floors outdoors

Levels are the terraces, the step in the lawn, the low wall that holds a cut. They can be reorganized so a path does not fight the slope. They cannot raise the ground against a wall the footprint says is the house.

Masses

Planting masses, not a shopping list

Planting masses are hedges, shrub blocks, and canopy groups read as volumes. They shape the paths and the levels. A named cultivar list belongs on the planting planner. Here the mass has to sit inside the boundaries and clear the footprint.

The land can be redrawn. The lot cannot.

  • Path alignment

    Walks can move, as long as they still meet the doors and gates the house already has.

  • Grade levels

    Terraces and steps can be restudied. The house is not a terrace you can raise.

  • Planting masses

    Hedges and shrub blocks are drawn as volumes that guide movement.

  • Footprint stays

    The house outline is a void you route around. It does not shrink to widen a path.

  • Boundaries stay

    Lot lines, and the fences that mark them, are the edge of the drawing.

  • Use before ornament

    Say how you cross the site before you decorate the leftover triangles.

Trace the fixed lines, then the walking lines

  1. 1. Mark footprint and boundaries

    On the photo or the sketch, trace the house footprint and the boundaries before any path is proposed.

  2. 2. Lay paths, then levels

    Draw where people walk. Add the level changes those walks have to climb.

  3. 3. Group the planting

    If a shrub becomes a shopping list, or the house outline moved, the site plan was ignored.

Paths and levels

Draw movement around a footprint that stays put

Landscape design shapes paths, levels, and planting masses around the house. The footprint and the boundaries stay. It is not a garden picture of flowers, and it is not a backyard limited to the rear door. The question is how a person moves from the street, around the house, and to a place to stop, without pretending the grade is flat.

Steps, a low wall, and a path width are the drawing. A lawn that erases a slope you have to climb is a failed plan even when it is green. Existing trees you mark stay. The facade is background. If you came to change the cladding, open the house pages.

Planting roles, bed by bed, belong to the planting planner. This page sets where the bed is and how you reach it.

Read the page from four sides

  • The footprint

    The house does not slide to make a better axis. Paths adjust to the building.

  • The grade

    Show the slope. A single flat lawn on a hill is not a landscape.

  • The path

    Width enough for two people where you claim it, and a reason for every turn.

  • The stop

    A place to stand or sit is the point of the walk. A path with no arrival is leftover paving.

Where this page stops

The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.

  • Garden is beds and a place to stay, under trees that do not move. It is the nearer view.

  • Yard treats front, side, and rear as one sequence from the street.

  • Planting plan gives every plant a job after the bed exists.

Site questions

Circulation, grade, and the planted volumes that have to route around a fixed house.

Can a path run right against a foundation?

It can meet a door. It should not erase the house footprint to get a wider walk. Leave a margin the wall can live with.

What counts as a planting mass?

A hedge, a shrub block, or a group of canopy read as one volume. Individual pots and a cultivar list are a different page.

May I nudge the house to straighten a path?

No. The house footprint stays. Paths, levels, and planting masses are what move.

Do the boundaries include the fence?

The property line stays. If you want a new fence design on that line, use the fence page after the landscape is set.

Can levels include a low retaining wall?

Yes. A wall that holds a level change is part of the grade. It still has to stop at the boundaries and clear the footprint.

Is a plant-by-plant scheme the result?

No. The brief is masses, paths, and levels, not a nursery order. A cultivar list belongs on the planting planner.

Can the footprint be read from this photo?

Yes. The photograph supplies the house outline, the boundaries, and the doors a path has to meet. The plan does not slide the building to straighten a walk.

Bring the site, not a bouquet

A photo or a simple sketch is enough if the house footprint and the boundaries are readable. Paths come after those two lines.