So this is an example of a rectangular design, where everything is basically just squares and rectangles. But all of the component parts, all of the compensation flows together, you ignore the property lines when you're doing a design radiating from the house out, and where the property lines don't necessarily match up with whatever design approach you work with. That's where plantings come in to soften the borders lines out. This is for example, for the purpose of screening, shade factors, decorative factors. So to summarize the rectangular design, it is generally going to reinforce the architecture of the home and it's simply a combination of vertical and horizontal lines, you've connected together. Three dominant space, that space could be a patio area, a recreational area, such as lawn, and then create subspaces of that keeping form company position in mind, but create dining areas cooking areas, different areas along those lines to create to give the design greater interest rather than just a small patio along our border of small trees.

Rectangle design can be used in both formal and informal design competitions. And the materials you choose for that base or for floor plane are going to have an influence on how that space is perceived. So if you let's say use flagstone for the walkway, and hot and have low grasses or other planting that tumble cross and blend the edges and even have the flagstone staggered along that path to where it has the irregular age. You have that strong rectangle design overall but now the planting the materials are selected are all going to blur that image and it's going to appear much less formal as opposed to To say, a brick or concrete or an exposed aggregate walkway that has clipped boxwood hedges on each side of it, very strict, very formal Look, that's going to give a whole another perception. So you can use this approach in either situation.

And what you're going to find is that for smaller properties, the rectangular design is going to be the most efficient use of the space you have to work with. Okay, that's it for rectangular design.