Do you already have a cottage or are you just going to become a homeowner? Surely you know exactly what your Paradise should look like. In real life, most owners of cottages and country houses believe that a good house — an insufficient condition for a serene holiday cottage in old age and at an earlier age.
In the ascetic (by today’s standards) country life, the number, type of economic buildings in the country, as well as their design were regulated by a small area of land and the laws of the state. But even then the summer resident could not do only one small shield house. He at least needed another structure — a country toilet.
And if the place and opportunities allowed, on a site there was still a shed for storage of stock and country shower. Very often these two objects were combined into a building called “the economic unit”.
A good wife, a good home-what else does a person need to meet old age?
Today the concept of country comfort has changed. The owners already want to have not only a house, a toilet-birdhouse and a hozblok. And in this article I want to tell, what other country buildings and structures.
Country houses are different
Life does not stand still. The term “outbuildings” today is not quite applicable to buildings in the modern country. Many people associated the country plot with a garden where they could grow vegetables and fruits for the family, or even have a small living creatures, such as chickens or rabbits.
Today we can distinguish three areas of suburban real estate:
- traditional cottage;
As a rule, these are sites located in old horticultural associations, with not very large area and formed life. There you can still find small country houses, gardens and flower beds.
Traditional cottages. Often, space for farm buildings is sorely lacking
Most often, a set of outbuildings on such a site is limited to a small free space and fit into the usual list: toilet, shed or economic unit. Their purpose is quite utilitarian – it is a utility room for various economic needs.
- country house;
Times have changed, suburban real estate is now buying. For many it is customary to call their suburban ownership “cottage”.
Modern country house-modern requirements for auxiliary buildings
Often these modern villas are much more spacious. For many owners of suburban areas, they have become a place to relax, not a solution to the food program of a single family. In such a country of vegetation — lawn, flower beds and ornamental trees and shrubs. In this case, to talk about the outbuildings on the site (ancillary facilities intended only for farming) is somehow inappropriate.
- house and farm;
Another extreme option-a house with a large farm. And if the owner of the cottage in the exclusive village of current pools, or gazebos, then to the owner of private farming more interesting are outbuildings, like a barn.
For someone stable, it’s more important the outhouse than the pool
But since we have the theme of cottage farm buildings, then I will focus on the first two types of country houses. Given the above, probably, it would be more correct to call the buildings on the suburban areas, not intended for housing, not outbuildings, and auxiliary. That is how they are defined legally in terms of ownership of property.
If the building itch does not allow to sleep, and you think that this would still build, look carefully at the proposed list of ancillary buildings, some of which will be economic, and others can be attributed to the entertainment section.
Country outbuildings
As practice shows, there are no many utility rooms: there is always something to use them for. Even if the cottage is not a vegetable garden, and serves for the family only a place of outdoor recreation, summer parties and Christmas holidays, country buildings for economic purposes will be necessary. Let’s start, perhaps, with a place to store equipment, which is equally useful and gardeners, gardeners, and lawn owners.
The economic unit
Shovels, rakes, trimmer or lawnmower, stocks of fertilizers and other necessary things must be stored somewhere. And even if the house is spacious, it is not necessary to drag garden tools and devices into its pantry. To do this, a barn. But it is more convenient to build not a separate barn, but to unite several services in the construction. For example, a workshop, a place to store tools and garden equipment, a shower room and something else, very necessary to the owner.
Outbuilding at the cottage
The economic unit allows you to more efficiently plan the territory: all sorts of separate booths and sheds disappear, the abundance of which on the site and makes it unattractive in appearance. The construction of one large multifunctional room may be more expensive, but in General it is more economical. After all, each separate shed has its own any Foundation, four walls and a separate roof.
By combining all the required buildings into a single complex, you will save in the long term. And in terms of structural strength you will win: a large building is easier to make strong than individual booths.
Greenhouse
Indoor facilities can be found even in the smallest suburban area: what to do, most of the belongs to the zone of risky farming. But the greenhouse is not necessarily a “farce” made of polyethylene film. It can be quite a decent design both in size and appearance, and for its purpose. Even for those gardeners who are not interested in growing tomatoes and eggplants, greenhouse, greenhouse, vegetarian or winter garden can be a useful purchase.
Greenhouse in the garden
In greenhouses equipped to grow well not just cucumbers. Exotic tropical ornamental plants will decorate your site. The variety of greenhouses, greenhouses and mini-greenhouses for growing seedlings is huge.
Greenhouse or greenhouse – is a separate structure, but if you are in the construction will join it to the house, you get a winter garden-the tropics in the house. The winter garden is not only a place for life of thermophilic plants, but also a continuation of the house: here you can arrange a living room or dining room.
In addition, the winter garden, although it requires additional costs to create a favorable microclimate for plants, but also participates in heating the house. This is one of the components of the technology of construction of houses with zero energy consumption.
Cellar
If you are a gardener, then you need your own cellar: to grow a crop is only half the battle, it is important to keep the grown. However, for summer residents who do not live in a country house in the winter, the problem of storage is not only to save from negative temperatures and rodents, but also in protection from “bad people”. In this case, a completely underground structure is suitable, the entrance to which is not too noticeable.
Bodega
And for those who prefer to buy vegetables rather than grow, you can arrange a wine cellar.
Garage
A dedicated shed for storage of the vehicles is the garage. If the area of the site is small, the carport can be used as a Parking space. Or combine a house and a garage, placing it in the basement.
The garage often performs for the owner and the role of the small workshop. Well, if you are the lucky owner of the site, facing directly to the lake or river, it is likely to need and a shed for storing boats.
Boathouse
Room for animals
From iron Pets move on to the living. In the countryside often contain animals — domestic or decorative. They will also need to make a separate room for housing and a pen for walking-an aviary.
Some summer residents, even those who do not live in a country house constantly, keep chickens in the summer. They’ll need a chicken coop.
Coop
And in addition to poultry, in cages contain decorative, for example, peacocks. In a gated community and own house and need a large dog.
Canopy
Structures without walls, but with a roof — canopies. In the country can be used for economic needs, and for recreation. Carport nice to dry fruits, mushrooms. And if nothing but lawn grass is grown on the site, then the canopy is a great place for outdoor dining, hammock placement.
Outdoor Seating under a canopy
If the canopy is not free-standing, and adjacent to the house, it is called a terrace. The shed can also be used for Parking instead of a closed garage.
Country buildings for rest and comfort
Country rest is what we strive for, even spending most of the long-awaited vacation in garden and garden troubles. Gazebo and Playground, sauna, swimming pool and barbecue — an integral part of the holiday cottage. Perhaps if the summer resident will be available not only useful outbuildings, but also suburban facilities for rest and comfort, it will be easier to plan your vacation time so that it was enough not only for the beds, but also for a pleasant pastime with your favorite book in the hammock.
Gazebo
If the canopy is arranged separately, it has not only the roof and supporting pillars, but also partially made walls, it turns into another kind of small architectural forms — gazebo.
Gazebo
The gazebo is nice to relax on a hot summer day, and if it is spacious — and in the company. Often in the gardens in the country arbors suit small, having rather a decorative purpose as an element of landscape design.
Barbecue place
Canopy or gazebo, equipped with barbecue or grill-this is another kind of possible auxiliary buildings in the country.
Equipped Seating area
And if you are a lover of picnics in any weather, then there is a suitable structure — a grill house.
Grill house
It is believed that the grill houses-the embodiment of the culture of the Scandinavian peoples. Well, or the peoples of the North: a kind of plague in a civilized performance. Whatever the history of the appearance of these houses for picnics, in our climate, it is quite a good solution: the walls of the structure protect from the weather, and in combination with the fire in the hearth and give the desired heat.
Interior grill house
And the rest-it’s for a warm company and a chef who expertly prepares dishes on an open fire.
Bathhouse
From the equipped barbecue areas you can smoothly move to another place of rest. One of the buildings that would like to have on the site of the majority of owners of suburban real estate — a bath. For many, the summer cottage without a sauna is a waste of money.
country house without a bath – money to the wind
For a modern citizen who comes to the country to rest, the bath has ceased to be a necessary place for hygienic procedures. Bath is, first of all, for the soul.
The size of the bath depends on the possibilities of the owner and the area of the site. And sometimes this structure is quite comparable in area with a house. Or even used as an additional residential building — a house for guests, if the bath is equipped with a second floor, for example.
Bassein
Swim in the pool in the July heat or after a bath nice. But we do not have Miami, the outdoor pool is functional on the strength of a couple of months a year. The way out is to make the pool indoor, that is, to build another auxiliary building.
Indoor pool in the country house
The pool building is often combined with a bath. The design of the indoor pool can be both stationary and more mobile, made on the principle of greenhouses made of polycarbonate.
Playground
Children also need a separate equipped Playground. There are such children, which parents would be happy to put in the aviary — for their own safety. Well, not an aviary, and a Playground, which may include a small children’s house, is equipped.
Children’s Playground on a country plot
Most children are happy to play in their own home, in which adults can not enter, because already too big.
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