The concept of minimalist home and garden dedicated to increasing the value of an entire room (exterior and interior) by reducing the excess of everything in the room. Minimalist philosophy represents a practical way of life, dynamic, concise, effective, and efficient, which is applied in all aspects of life including house building architecture, interior space and exterior gardens. Collaboration minimalist house and garden became the medium of communication between the architecture and landscaping in the form of contrast, hard-soft, stiff, soft, dead-alive, geometric, dynamic, and between man-made (cultural) and nature.

Minimalist eliminate saturation with the use of many decorative ornaments, knick-knacks accessories. Character and quality of spaces created by the existence of space defined itself, not by the furniture and accessory knick-knacks in it. Space becomes felt relieved (empty, immortality, meditative atmosphere) according to the primary needs of residents, to optimize the circulation of healthy fresh air, and lighting is abundant sunshine (rich colors).

Natural light from windows, doors, walls transparent (stained glass, glassblock), or skylights, shade trees, plants and paving composition, will present an appropriate image objects from sunlight reflected off the walls as a natural aesthetic separate elements. While the game system very artistic lights, spotlights good, light plant, to the chandelier with geometric shapes, can liven the evening.

It must be understood, the concept of Western and Eastern minimalism is somewhat different. Western minimalist concept of rational functional tends to a greater emphasis on the function of space and material honesty of expression. While the concept was strongly influenced East minimalist Zen-Buddhist philosophy that emphasizes simplicity, harmony, efficient, and effective, and symbolizes the emptiness and silence (spiritual values) for each space created a clear, plain, and clear, so the space can be lived greatness of the Creator. Being a natural minimalist.

Geometric patterns, proportionate, effective, efficient, neutral colors, and natural (the impression of relief and field), pure colors (primary), the representation of nature (plants, contour shape, the element of water), raw materials without excessive finishing (impression of quiet, gentle , pure, pure, innocent), texture, and contrast. Quality home and garden design, space, and the resolution of the structure must be getting better.

Form of straightforward design, plain, simple, uncomplicated, compact, and efficiency-effective space. Blocking mass, materials, lighting, repetition, circulation compact, multifunctional space optimization and sequential. The value and beauty of the house does not rely on a minimalist garden ornaments and artificial objects, but more meaningful to an honest form, function, and the inspiration that spaces are created.

Structuring minimalist home and garden requires a harmonious overall look, a combination of hard materials (concrete, stone, coral, gravel, sand), the physical structure of buildings and exotic plants, exotic colors, as well as supporting elements (lights, ponds, benches, statues , furniture). Harmony requires minimal materials, shape, color, and texture with the impression conveyed to the warm, intimate, romantic, natural, or futuristic. Games monochromatic colors with themes such as the gradation of one or two primary colors to create unity between the house and the garden.

Use of building materials (house and garden) minimalism is not necessarily expensive. Use of simple materials (a strong element of simplicity) is not a luxury with expensive materials, and natural materials (elements of harmony with nature). Exposure domination materials (soft and hard) will produce certain effects different. Design and calculations of detail structure can save the use of materials with the results of building materials and garden house optimum artistic appearance.

The arrangement of furniture requires order, where everything is orderly in their respective position. The room filled with furniture that is very efficient and functional course. Selected furniture only really needed, not a decorative element, if possible multifunctional. Room was clean and seemed relieved. Furniture interior and exterior with geometric forms aims to maximize the use of space, there is no gap or space left to die.

Parks play an important role include the beauty and harmony of nature into the building and together with the surrounding natural environment. Park as a dynamic live objects instead provides minimalist spirit of the house that often seemed cold and stiff.

The fence is designed to strengthen the impression the house minimalism from textured concrete (horizontal / vertical), or betel leaf walls (pieces arranged storey stone) which was a trend, so that softens the hedge structure stiffness.

The presence of water element in the form of geometric and form pools of water calm, waterfalls, or water spray (fog effect) brings stillness and coolness of the space and audience space.

Minimalist house and garden, they must collaborate to form outside the room setup, building, and space in a balanced (yin yang), berjalinan harmoniously together, and not dominate the other. The division of space is very efficient, functional, and clear hierarchy, and reduce (reduce) the need for space that is not important.

Residents and guests can easily recognize the functions of space. Space seemed to flow from the front yard, front porch, exploration of each of the rooms, until the back porch. Dining room, living room and kitchen have interconnecting regularity, continuity, and harmony of design antarruang.

The totality of his own minimalist garden will be discussed at the next opportunity.

Aligning the house and garden presents a minimalist means home environment calm and soothing.

Pangaribuan Tunggul yard size 5mx7m. There was no fence between the yard with residential street. Plants were arranged little crooked and follow the outer shape of the building.

Most of these yards closed manila grass. Side it in front of the facade, planted trees with a game high gradation and color. Low high gradation game crops intended to create value beauty. The front area of the plant, planted with low plant species, such as lilies paris. Part planted behind bushes and evergreen species of shrimp. More to the rear section, visible antlers (Platycerium) and ferns are superimposed on the tail palm tree squirrels (Wodyetia bifurcate).

The presence of deer antlers and ferns, which are generally more visible in the tropical forests, giving the impression of beautiful forest atmosphere. Although only superimposed on the three palm tree squirrel’s tail, but the visual effects created to give a strong beautiful atmosphere.

Not only plants, this garden is also used rocks as percantikan. Edge of the park bounded by coral stones neatly arranged to form curved growing position in rhythm. Rocks, bordered on the outer side with manila grass. In the middle of the lawn, no stepping stone from stone temple arranged two-two. That way, not only a beautiful park, the existence of this mini forest makes a more attractive house.

Lily is a long broad-leaf plants, like banana leaves. Among these leaves appeared Lily flower long-stemmed flowers. Lily flowers shaped like a shovel themselves white and fragrant. These plants can be placed inside or outside the room.

To plant and care for her, does require extra attention. Lily liked the planting medium moist. If the media using the earnings dry, growth will be disturbed, he is usually reluctant to bloom.

On the other hand, the fair is also not like excessive moisture. Puddle of water or planting medium is too wet, can make the roots rot. Thus, the planting medium flush the media using the earnings only when dry.

Lily, like other plants, also need to berfotosintesis sunlight. But you need to protect it from the sun is too hot. It’s good, put Lily in a shady area, but still get sunlight. If you put it in the room, keep out, at least once every three days.

Absorbent Pollutants

Not be denied, the more days the more air pollution occurs. Without realizing it at the house we were not free of toxic gases (pollutants). For example, formaldehyde is used in the cleaning fluid, benzene from cigarette smoke and plastic materials, or used trichloroethylene contained in the ink and paint.

Various pollutant gases can be neutralized by this plant. Not all plants can absorb pollutant gases. Spathyphyllum or Lily is one that can absorb the poisonous gas. Based on research, Lily effectively absorb and neutralize benzene. Ideally, a Lily plants can absorb pollutants in the room measured about 9meter square. So, in addition to beautiful, Lily should be placed in the room other than to decorate the room, as well as absorbing air pollution.

Now, after buying a small house your dream, of course, you feel happier right? Your own home, of course, complete with a beautiful garden in the yard. Not? Okay, so you only buy the land and buildings, because the developer will not be generous to provide greenery. It’s OK, you now have the brown soil sehampar want you immediately if that whole atmosphere of your house more fresh and comfortable. But wait, before you start planting let me give you some advice before you design your garden.

1. Recognize the shape and width of the page that you create the garden, soil type, exposure to sunlight, and the quality and quantity of ground water in your home. If you have a large garden, boxes, and not shaded then you need plants that are resistant to sunlight is not it?

2. Determine the amount of available budget for this park creation project. This will determine what plants can you buy and plant in your garden. If your budget is loose enough, consider also to get help from a professional you trust.

3. Determine the style / tone that you want to earn from this park. You should align with the nuances of architectural style garden of your home.

4. identify the elements forming the park to be applied and memanfaatkanya optimally.

Angle Park is a fitting choice for the limited land. (Source: Pretty Park Light Cost p.13)

Usually the elements forming an outline of the garden there are 2 types, namely soft softscape or elements (in the form of plants, water and animals such as fish) and hardscape or hardware elements of the path, paving, walls, pots, garden benches, lamps, etc.)

a. Softscape. This element is the most important thing in a park. The function of plants in a garden that is: (i) ground cover or ground cover; (ii) coating; (iii) barrier; (iv) accent and (v) shade.

(i) Ground cover or ground cover is the most popular grasses. There manila grass rather sharp edges, but look pretty and neat, there are a lot of elephant grass used in minimalist homes. Other land cover types are also popular among the yellow flowers (nuts) and garlic-white flowering bawangan. Some types of plants are also good planted flowers in the form of the spread as ground cover, such as Gerbera.

(ii) The plant can also serve as wallpaper or pergola. This coating plants are usually spread. Among the species there are dollar-dollar bills, pasiflora, Alamanda, and others. If you want your pergola or wall covered with plants quickly, you can choose or Alamanda pasiflora fast growing and relatively resistant to the scorching sun.

(iii) The plant can serve as a barrier limiting land (rail) or the pattern of the park boundary. Plants that are popularly used as a fence-tehan including tea and Chinese bamboo. Meanwhile, as the border pattern you can use the garden purslane, lili paris, opiopogon, Heliconia and beans.

(iv) Parks incomplete if it does not have an accent, as a sweetener or even the focus of attention. Can be planted as an accent sikas, pandanus or zameo bali. If you want to focus on the object you are minimalist garden, frangipani Bali feels good to be his choice. Especially when supported by appropriate uplighting.

(v) If your garden is large, you may need to consider planting perennials is relatively large as a shade, so heat was not impressed. You can choose fruit trees that have shaded canopies, such as rambutan, or mango. In addition to shade the page, guaranteed to invite taulan companion or family to visit each season fruit. But if you do not want to invite ignorant hands, you can also plant a shade tree non-fruit, such as for example ketapan.
In addition to a plant, can also be softscape water and animals such as fish or rabbit. The use of water in the garden elements can form a cool atmosphere, but really need to diperhaitkan treatment, so as not to dirty and moldy. Animals can also serve as an interesting element in the park, of course, also be aware of the necessities of life and safety.

b. Hardscape. Should not hardscape portion of softscape, so that its presence was limited to functionally support the park and aesthetics. Hardscape can be a garden furniture (such as park benches, swings, or light), paving the ground for paths and square (can use conblock or natural stone), barrier (fences, walls) or shade (eg pergola, eaves, or gazebo).

Your page a little? Your home petite? Certainly not a reason to not build a beautiful pond. Well, where the ideal pool for your home? Let’s discuss together.

Of course if you live in the housing, you must have a rest on the front page, right? In the layout of residential buildings, one side is usually used as a carport. Surely you can not build there, but on the other side. For those of you who only have a small remaining land could be considered to build your pool fence extends to the wall.

If you choose this alternative, you can beautify your pool with games as background material the pool wall. Bundles of betel leaves natural stone can be your choice to create a modern minimalist impression on your pond. You can also choose Palimanan sandstone or white for accent walls. Andesite stone temples dot or square stones arranged in a rustic (and forth) is also appropriate to give a modern impression in your landscape.

Pool with natural stone wall background suitable for decorating the narrow front yard. If want to get the impression of natural, artificial landscape may be an option.

If wanting natural impression, you can put the broken stone paste (or papaya sala Purwakarta) or you can create a cliff-like wall texture. The latter you need the help of a handyman expert services.

Well, of course your pond will be more interesting if the flow. For that there are several ways you can do. The easiest way is to use the water pump (special aquarium) that can be immersed into the pond. You will get your pool running and of course you keep the fish become more happy, right? This effect will be more apparent with the cascade-like pool design (such as cascade berundak river). How to design your pond with different heights and depths, so as if there is such a small stream in your yard.

If you are a long land, you can bring the water into the wall background. You need a powerful water pump is for pumping water to the top of the wall (height of the wall 2 m). On top of this wall you can plant a pvc pipe or a small galvanized 1 / 2? into it. Do not forget to give a hole at a distance of 15 cm on your pvc pipe. Of course, the meeting will provide a curtain of water density you want. Wet field wall will be visible glow when exposed to sunlight, especially if given the texture of natural stone as discussed earlier. The result you will get your pool and impressive natural chick.

The flow of water in the pond is believed to reduce stress residents. You can create this effect by creating a mini rapids or a shower.

Else if you do not want to drain the water on the background wall because you may worry about the moss that grows on the wall. Well, you can put padhasan barrels (a barrel is already equipped with a hole, usually for wudhlu) from the red clay. After that tap water into the barrel. You’ll get a pool with a fountain in rural accent. Bamboo can be your choice to replace the barrel if you want a more natural impression. Surely you must create a bin of water first against the wall, but you make a pond at the bottom as a fish pond (pond stacking).

In addition to the pool wall, you can also create a pool as a sweetener terrace house. The way of course with a pond in front of your front porch. If the page remains narrow, you can implement tricks like making the pool wall or simply make the pond ditch. Either can raise the pool wall (50-60 cm) and memultifungsikannya as potted plants or digging up the ground water as a conventional pool. Lush water plants can become a partition on your porch, so that you are busy reading the newspaper on the porch was not disrupted.

Trench around the pool terrace house can be an alternative to sweeten the front room, of course, by adjusting the size with the size of the front page.

If your page is wide enough, you can create a conventional pond in front of your porch. Forms a natural pool will make you feel like home in the mountains. You can also place the arched bridge made of bamboo, wood, or concrete to cross to the opposite side. In addition, the gazebo can also be an option to sweeten your home pool.

You do not have to mess with a carpenter called to your home. We have had a lot of the gazebo to be offered in the market. Now, you want the style of Java? Bali? Sunda? Of course you live in the style of your message to the seller or directly to manufacturers in the region.

After peeling the pond in front of the house, maybe you think differently that the pages just large enough to be in your home belakan. The solution is not much different from the front of the house, which obviously you only need to put the pond in the appropriate fields. The choices can be on the back fence wall, side walls, or even in front of the back porch.

Berlanggam If your home a modern, simple box-shaped pool match as an option. If your yard wide, not just the fish pond you can make, but also a mini swimming pool in the back of your house. Nice not imagine you can relax in the private pool?

Maybe you still can not apply the pond in the front and rear yard because there are other functions you wish to wadahi. Do not get discouraged, you can create a pond in the house. How? You remember the first settlement tips? You can make some sort? Ditch? is close to the wall space in your family room for example. Then you can use a curtain of water to sweeten the room accents. Easy is not it?

Finally, of course, space limitations do not make your dream house dream vanished, it’s where your creativity is tested.

The fence is intended as a barrier. Barrier between the owner of the house or yard that one with another owner. Therefore, every house built fences to taste and individual needs. There is a magnificent wall, there is also a rigid iron fence and sturdy. There is also a combination of walls and iron, so impressed solid. Reasons for such a fence, among others for the sake of safety factors, and reasons related to social status. Fences and luxurious stately home owners would be raised to the title as a modern person.

However, now began to emerge back to nature movement. All-natural. All-natural. Beautiful charm. Environmentally friendly. And his form is one of the hedge-making. What is interesting? In addition to natural and cool, the hedge also pretty artistic impression. After sprouting buds grow, plants and regulated and trimmed to form the “building” beautiful. There is also a flowering hedges, flower, until the show lively and energetic impression.

In fact, our ancestors had actually practicing a hedge, and not just meant beauty, but rather as an alternative treatment ingredients. Javanese and tempo, for example, likes to plant a hedge beluntas. Everyone knows, beluntas also be used as a vegetable and traditional healing. The Sundanese, for example, have a tradition of planting a red HANJUANG as a hedge. And red HANJUANG “trusted” as a starting plant repellent reinforcements evil spirits.

Select Small Seeds
How to plant a hedge? Hoe the soil as deep as 20 cm and form planting holes, depending on your taste. Can be made as simple as a rectangle lengthwise, or cut cubes or hexagons but connect, for example. Let the planting hole is open about 2 weeks, while the soil organic fertilizer cangkulan given as much as 2 to 4 kg / m 2, also 30 grams of NPK (15 15 to 125) / m2. Or Urea, TSP and KCL each 10 gram/m2. after 2 weeks, given cangkulan soil fertilizer is inserted back into the planting hole, then leave again for 2 weeks.

Next, select the seeds from which plants will be planted. Should select the seed that is still smaller than the already large. Make a small hole, and enter the seed. Press the soil around the base of the seeds, berries stake and tie the seedlings at stake. Afterwards, flush to wet.

In order to grow lush hedgerows, should be given fertilizer every month. For flowering hedge, use a fertilizer NSK (15 25 – 15) the content of his P-high. As for the leafy hedges, use of NPK fertilizer (25 15 – 15) that its N content high. In addition to fertilizing, watering to do well, especially in the dry season could be watered 2 times morning and afternoon.

Razor-Shaving
Beauty hedgerows can also be obtained by trimming, ie, activity-shaving razor stems and leaves of plants. Lazy pruning, the plant will not grow up poor karuan crosswise and add to the impression dirty. Original purpose to create beauty, bsia-could produce the opposite, unkempt slob.

Why have shaved? First, that always grow new shoots, and make a leafy plants regularly. The second is to get the form beautiful hedges, neat and healthy. Pruning should be done at least 2 weeks or 3 weeks. Do not be too long (over 1 month), because in addition to more difficult to cut, too difficult to establish the plant.

How to cut the right tips? Prepare 2 pieces of bamboo and rope. Bamboo plugs at the ends of the hedge. Tie a rope to a bamboo fence at the end of the tall plants with dependent taste and needs, then withdrawn and the rope tied around the bamboo at the other end. Appeared limits the stretch of rope. And that’s where you can shave the plant. And so on. Easy is not it?

“Also in Japan, right, there are 4 seasons, while here only two seasons. After the rainy season, summer switch. Well, Sakura will look better in summer. Contours of land, how to care, and climate causes flowering Cibodas 2 times. ”

Cycle through which Sakura is diawalai with the growing leaves around branches of the tree first. When the rainy season, the leaves will turn yellow and fall. When summer comes, then will grow flowers.

“From bud to blossom, the flowers will last for a week. Unfortunately, the weather conditions are difficult to predict, sometimes accompanied by hot winds and rain, Sakura flowers will easily fall out. But then the leaves will grow again.”

In Japan, Sakura propagation can only be done through cuttings and seeds. The botanical garden Cibodas, protracted Dwi, Sakura can be reproduced by transplanted. Even if Sakura wants to plant in a location that tends temperature heat, such as Jakarta, Sakura will only grow leaves, but will not bloom.

Sakura will only bloom and grow well if planted at high altitudes and low temperatures (cold). “The Japanese who come here claiming wondered why it could Sakura bloom twice. Finally, they become challenged to grow Sakura here, and given the initials of their names,” said Dwi.

Not Growing Simultaneously

In 2002, Ir. Holif Immamudin who was then serving as head of Cibodas Botanical Garden, began to see the uniqueness of Sakura. He finally asked Sakura to be reproduced by distek, transplanted, seeds and seedlings.

“Propagation through cuttings results for some time. Cankok way proved most successful, while the seeds are not very good results and quite slow,” said Holif which took a visit to Japan to learn more about Sakura.

Finally, the number of Sakura in Cibodas Botanical Garden 300 increased until it reaches the tree. However, continued Holif, there are some weaknesses of Sakura planted here, which is not growing in unison. However, on the other hand it is precisely this which was the excess.

In Japan, according to Holif, when Sakura flowers had fallen out, had to wait another year to go back to enjoy the beauty of flowers. While in Cibodas Botanical Garden, Sakura growth that does not simultaneously make Sakura flowers are blooming in turn, although only a little flower grow. In Japan, Sakura saun will fall in March-April, to then be replaced with the emergence of a blooming flower.

Another disadvantage, autumn leaves, there is absolutely no Sakura, but Sakura flowers will easily fall, especially if exposed to rain and big wind. However, Holif very grateful, because it did not have to masyakarat so far traveled to Japan and the expensive cost to enjoy the beautiful flowers Sakura. “Enjoy it keindannya of Cibodas,” he said.