Home Improvement 101
Something about summer makes us all
want to go outside and play. Just as it takes a lot of work
to make a house a home, a good outdoor area is not a patio
unless you can enjoy being around in it. You know: go barefoot,
play badminton, have tea, arm-wrestle with the kids, snip
a few dew-lapped roses, read, eat, sleep even. If you can't
use your deck, can't go out there and actually enjoy it, what
is the point?
To that end, the easiest way to get
maximum returns on your deck is to treat the outdoors as an
extension of your house. And just as there is not one all-embracing
living space in your home, you probably will not want one
monolithic expanse outside. You will want rooms outside your
house, just as you do inside.
A few artfully placed shrubs, trees,
flower beds, fences, or decks-whatever-and you have sheltered,
private rooms reserved for dining, playing, and resting outside.
So pull up a lounge chair here, set up the picnic table there,
and by all means, stretch out the hammock.
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