How to build a patio

To equip, elevate the green area, adjacent to suburban or country house, and turn it into a cozy patio, which is always an expensive and troublesome undertaking. The scale of building dependent on your desire. It is possible to realize the dream of pond with water lilies, but you can just fantasy to break up the new flower bed, to do the Alpine slide, beautiful to lay the track and put a new bench in the barbecue area.

Instruction

Select a location for your patio site, which is convenient to wall with two or three sides (leave open, as a rule, the southern part).

Consider what will be the surface of the site. Part of it will be paved, part - decorate lawns and flower beds.

Built the fence, remember that to a small courtyard, not suitable for heavy materials - bricks, concrete barriers. Organically will look decorative fences, light and breathable. Good for these purposes, woven fences made from willow rods. You can also use the usual fence. Twigs "woven" into a thin (about 2 cm) prozhiliny-pipe, welded to iron posts. Their diameter can be small - 4-6 cm.

A part of the patio cover with a specially constructed canopy of simple structure with a roof of Ondulin, slate, painted in juicy colors.You can shade the area of the yard and purchase an umbrella or an awning.

If you like pergola, pitch it on one of the tracks using the crate of wood and "dropping" her favorite climbing plants.

Setting "gender", take care of her optimal drainage. Desirable small slope towards the drainage ditch. It lay in the lowest part of the yard, masking the low shrubs.

Paving paths, choose any available material. Suitable not only factory paving slabs, but the combination of old bricks laid in a specific order. Paving tiles can be laid on a sand cushion (under light load) and on the basis of gravel or cement. For arranging the tracks and fit natural stone, and hardwood flooring.

It is customary to talk about the interior courtyards. The choice of garden furniture today are huge, from plastic and wooden products to wrought iron. Choose what you like.

Appeared in the sale of small artificial ponds. They easily dig into the ground. Purchase suitable plants for a mini-pond, make it original framing, and the landscape of your yard will be transformed.

Ceramic figurines, vases, lamps, lanterns, swing, selected according to your taste, will be the pleasing look of the design of the local area, will add comfort and identity in an updated living space. Please note on the practice of designers-the Dutch: they elaborately decorate their gardens with small windmills, wood crafts, trucks, and potted flowers. Skillfully imitate even the channels and inserted into your landscape graceful counterparts Chinese gazebos.

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