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From Gazebos To Pergolas, Patios And Beyond - Create An Outdoor room Without Blowing your Budget
Need to make the most of the summer? Suffering from cabin fever? Don’t have a massive pile of money to extend your home with? You could create an inviting outdoor room on your own premises without blowing the budget.
Check out these simple ideas for extending your living space. Give your family a little bit more room to breathe with these accessible options...
Are you looking out at a backyard full of overgrown shrubbery or unused lawn? Why not expand your home-living footprint with a patio upgrade?
Step 1 - You could extend your patio with pavers or natural stone to give yourself a larger footprint. Pavers are the paving stones that you can use to extend an existing concrete patio. Plan out and measure the extended area carefully to ensure you buy enough of them.
Use architectural salvage or found flagstones if you’re on a budget and need inspiration from alternative materials.
You may have a generous patio footprint already but it’s still a desolate, unloved part of the house.
Step 2 - Give it a powerwash clean and treat it with a fungicidal wash that kills all mould & mildew on walls before you paint it or dress it with any more furniture or outdoor accessories. Use a product that’s suitable for use on concrete, stone, paving, walls & wood.
Step 3- You can make a big impact in any outdoor space with clever colour combinations. Touch up bleached wooden furniture, rails or decking with bright energetic and welcoming shades like orange, green or turquoise.
Step 4 - Give it some shelter. Don’t let the summer drizzle and the noonday sun get in the way either. A water-resistant parasol or awning is a perfect excuse for staying out longer and creating an appropriate shelter for your garden furniture. There’s one for every sized patio.
There are also sheltering triangular sails you can source for stretching across the corners of your patio space - just be sure you have high corbels for mounting the sail hooks.
If you have the DIY chops, time and space, a pergola is a perfect outdoor sanctuary option for those on a budget and handy with nails and a hammer.
With patience and some loving green fingers, you could watch this project literally grow into a really beautiful, sensuous and sweet-smelling garden installation.
This will ultimately deliver the real shade and even rain cover you need over time, whilst also keeping your garden outdoor room a truly natural green space.
A trellis or lattice is a perfect way for dressing a plain brick wall or creating a natural partition and enclosure for your garden too.
You can screen off the chilly winds and lend privacy to your deck or pergola with simple treated-wood lattice walls. Add planting over time to create a solid living breathing wall of green.
Like parasols, gazebos are an easy way to convert open space into a more functional outdoor room in all weather scenarios bar a tropical hurricane of course.
A good transitional and portable solution when hosting outdoor gatherings in your backyard or even front garden.
You can eat into your lawn with your patio extension without compromising on the feel-good presence of nature and greenery in your garden.
Place large-leafed evergreen plants on the newly paved perimeter or steps of your newly expanded patio stone. Use complementing pots just outside and inside your doors and windows. It will create the illusion of a seamless connection between indoors and out.
Potted plants are also a great technique for marking out or demarcating one space from another. Hanging plants using a softer macrame hanging pot holder will soften things further creating a natural green enclosure of your space,
You can paint trellises, pergolas, decking or lattice walls in any colour or keep it in a natural wood finish for a more rustic look.
You can dress it in bunting, lanterns and fairy lights when hosting a garden party, barbecue or tea party event.
Create or source outdoor curtains, drape muslin and sails for added a more sheltered enclosed and cosy feel.
Drop down water-resistant garden mats or rugs on, or an old rug that’s been lying unused in the attic to create a softer look during those garden parties
Be brave and invest in a hammock for that extra holiday feeling.
The kids will also love it when you finally throw in the waterproof bean bag too. These are the simple hard-to resist lounge-ready accessories that will get them off the Xbox, Netflix and out into the open outdoor room.
Stop by our Outdoor Living to source more furniture for your outdoor spaces and peruse our Lawn & Garden Section to catch an overview of the DIY products and brands available
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