Most Common Mistakes To Avoid When Doing The Landscaping Yourself

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Soulscape

• Most Common Mistakes To Avoid When Doing The
  Landscaping Yourself

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• Landscaping can be a really fun but if you run
  into various problems while doing your garden
  makeover project, this enjoyment can become a
  nightmare. To make sure everything runs smoothly,
  it would be best to know the most common
  landscaping mistakes that many "do it
  yourselfers" are found guilty of.
• Doing the garden makeover projects by yourself
  can be both enjoyable and challenging. If you
  want to save some dollars, it can be more
  practical to do the landscaping yourself than to
  hire a landscaping services company. Well, these
  two can be true if you really know what you are
  doing. However, if you think that you lack the
  skills and knowledge needed for landscaping, you
  better think twice before you even start with the
  project or else, you will be caught guilty of
  committing any of the common landscape mistakes
  listed below.

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Preparation Mistakes

• One major mistake that "do it yourselfers" like
  you may commit is carrying a garden makeover
  project without a solid landscape design plan.
  Having an idea about how you would design your
  garden and imagining how it would look like after
  the project is done is good. However, just
  keeping your ideas and imaginations inside your
  brain is not really enough. Chances are, you may
  not be able to achieve the look that you want for
  your garden and also, you may not be able to
  stick to your budget religiously.

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Absence of Landscape Design Plan
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• Before you start the landscaping task, you must
  be able to list down first all the things that
  you needed and draw a solid landscape design
  plan. Your design plan does not need to be
  perfect and it does not have to look like it was
  made by a professional landscaper. You can make a
  draft of your plan in the most convenient way you
  know. The plan will serve as your guide when
  doing the landscaping. It will also help you
  visualize clearer how your garden will look like
  when the landscaping project is done. If you have
  a drawn plan, you can be able to evaluate it
  upfront to know if the garden, walkways, and
  patios are designed with a functional size and if
  they all flow into each other.

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Short sighted vision of the landscape site
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• Some "do it yourselfers" are fond of installing
  plants and trees into their garden without
  thinking about how huge they can grow through the
  years.

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Budget Mistakes

• You may have already set a certain amount to pay
  for the plant, materials, garden decors and
  furniture that you want to use in your garden.
  But, have you also included in your list of
  expenses some other things that you may need for
  the project? Things like building permits, debris
  and trash hauling, portable toilet for the
  construction site, delivery, invisible items such
  as drain pipes, irrigation, and electrical
  materials, tools, and equipment, are all
  considered as expenses and therefore needs to be
  included in your budget. If you have not yet
  included these items in your list, then you
  better add them in your expenses list to ensure
  that you have them all covered.

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