The regulating line is a principle that landscape designers use to lay out different spaces in a landscape. But you can try it at home, too!
Landscape designers use the regulating line (also called lines of force or force lines) to organize a space when they’re creating it.
So a regulating line is basically taking an existing structure like your house and just drawing straight lines out from significant parts of that house. So the edges of the house, the windows, maybe the door, draw straight lines out from all those spaces.
And that will kind of give you a little bit of a grid to work with so that you can start lining up different spaces in your landscape. You can draw lines straight out from the structure or you can also try at 45 degree angles and use those regulating lines to create your paths and create your rooms outdoors.
And you’ll be well on your way to creating that dream landscape.
House template from @paper.garden.workshop (thanks Lisa!)
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landscape designers use this principle called the regulating line to kind of organize a space when they’re creating it so a regulating line is basically taking an existing structure like your house and just drawing straight lines out from significant parts of that house so the edges of the house the windows maybe the door draw straight lines out from all those spaces and that will kind of give you a little bit of a grid to work with so that you can start lining up different spaces in your lamp landcape um you can do this straight out and you can also try at 45° angles and use those regulating lines to create your paths and create your rooms outdoors and you’ll be well on your way to creating that dream landscape
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Thank you for this direction! I'm going to be moving to my Dads home and there are no boundaries. (I'm used to blockwall yards where I live and use this for my direction.) I've been at a loss of how and where to start to design a garden/yard in this huge space. This is VERY helpful!
I am going to try this in my back yard. Right now it's just weeds and sand. I want something that is pretty yet easy to take care of. Thank you for this idea!
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I'm going to have to try this.❤
Thank you very much for your education. I have been researching on this topic over four years. You just answered my question in one minute. Thank you
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Thank you!!! Huge help. What software do you use to make plans?