Making the Most of Outdoor Rooms

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MAKING THE
OUTDOOR ROOMS
Outdoor spaces, if utilized wisely, can break down the traditional boundaries between indoor and outdoor living to form a vital link between our busy lives and the natural world. A tiny garden or backyard, a roof terrace or a conservatory, can improve the quality of life out of all proportion to its size. In Making the Most of Outdoor Rooms, writer and stylist Gilly Love offers a wealth of inspirational and practical ideas for turning your outside space into an extra room that requires little maintenance yet will provide hours of pleasure.
Beginning with advice on how to assess and plan your outdoor space, we look at a variety of contrasting layouts -for a minimalist dining area, a flexible work studio and a boldly designed living area - as well as ingenious ways of maximizing space through the clever use of walls, steps, trees and trellises. Further chapters explore ideas for decoration, a variety of style options and design solutions to creating shade... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MAKING THE
OUTDOOR ROOMS
Outdoor spaces, if utilized wisely, can break down the traditional boundaries between indoor and outdoor living to form a vital link between our busy lives and the natural world. A tiny garden or backyard, a roof terrace or a conservatory, can improve the quality of life out of all proportion to its size. In Making the Most of Outdoor Rooms, writer and stylist Gilly Love offers a wealth of inspirational and practical ideas for turning your outside space into an extra room that requires little maintenance yet will provide hours of pleasure.
Beginning with advice on how to assess and plan your outdoor space, we look at a variety of contrasting layouts -for a minimalist dining area, a flexible work studio and a boldly designed living area - as well as ingenious ways of maximizing space through the clever use of walls, steps, trees and trellises. Further chapters explore ideas for decoration, a variety of style options and design solutions to creating shade for al-fresco entertaining in mid-summer, paving, planting, screening for privacy, colourful containers, ornament and water features. Here are innovative ways of enhancing your 'outdoor room' with lighting, with subtle combinations of colour and texture both in your furnishings and in your planting schemes, and for expanding your storage space.
With over eighty-five full-colour photographs and three case-study plans. Making the Most of Outdoor Rooms shows you how the most forlorn back garden, whatever its shape and aspect, can be turned into a well-designed living area to be enjoyed throughout the year. Vissza