Creating Garden Rooms

==== ====How to Build a “Garden Room” Domehttp://12e3e5q9rmocbxf7zapah9asbt.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=G==== ====Garden rooms provide great impact in both large and small spaces. You can divide large spacesinto smaller rooms with different themes and different seasonal appeal. For example, a vegetablegarden, a shade garden and a flower garden could surround a water feature. If your property issmall use the room concept to make your garden more private and beautiful.A garden room has the same structural elements as you would have in any room in your house--walls, a floor and a ceiling. Then add amenities that make a room welcoming, such as seating andother attractive furnishings.Floors and PathsLawn is the carpeting of choice in many American gardens and they can be very effective ingarden rooms if it is well maintained. But many other options such as ground covers, flagstone,brick, pea gravel or wood are available. Most garden room floors use a combination of lawn and ahard paving surface. The paving material is used for paths and seating areas, while the lawn is arefreshing base for the plants that grow above it.When working in a small space, shape your lawn to make the room look deeper. Have a longgradually narrow as it moves back to the property going. This creates an optical illusion of alonger distance.CeilingsA ceiling of clear sky is but one option for a garden room. If you need shade, build a small pergolaor attach a lattice panel to posts. Carefully prune tree limbs to make a gracious living ceiling for agarden room.Ann Arbor covered with fast growing vines can provide shade, color and fragrance; several goodfragrant vines are available.To make your room with private as possible, place the arbor near a fence or wall so you canborrow the existing surface as a backdrop. Alternatively, consider partially enclosing your arborwith it and formal heads of shrubs.Wallswalls can enclose the garden space, provide privacy, screen external views and soften thegardens edges. Use any number of materials including hedges, layered shrubs and trees, woodfences, stone or brick walls or even the sides of adjacent buildings. A combination of materials is

often successful. For example, walls made of hard materials such as brick or stone might bedressed with narrow, upright evergreens and a few flowering shrubs, with small annuals,perennials or vines planted at their feet.One of the most enchanting things about garden rooms is that you can design them so that theentire garden is not visible at one glance instead a wall lower heads may offer a narrow openingthat draws us from one garden room into another. Another way to screen an area; place a groupof evergreen shrubs so that path curves around them into a second hidden room. It is delightfulindeed defined as secret setting area a treasured statue or a water feature at the end of a path.Furnishings and AccentsAs in all rooms, you need a spot to set and read a book or enjoy a cup of coffee. You may alsowant to entertain. Benches, chairs and tables placed on top of a stone terrace or wood deckshould act as an invitation to pause in the garden and rest. As you locate resting areas in yourgarden, consider the view from setting level and place accents of interest nearby. Some outdoorrooms have such strong architectural elements that they dont need much decoration. Most roomsbenefit from the addition of judiciously selected pots, vases, statues,fountains or sculpture. As youconsider possibilities keep in mind that the object should blend harmoniously in terms of scale andmaterial so that it does not overpower surrounding plants. To provide focus within an otherwiseconfusing jumble of plants place an interesting stone that marks a path, a birdbath or mosquecovered architectural fragment.T. Gettlebob@bobgettlelandscaping.com[http://www.bobgettlelandscaping.com] 25 years experience in landscaping. Get 43 free tips togrowing the perfect roses. Sign up to our list today for free gardening and landscaping information,and great resources to help you achieve a landscape that is the envy of your neighborhood.Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Robert_Gettle==== ====How to Build a “Garden Room” Dome

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Creating Garden Rooms

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