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Eclectic Deck Design Ideas
Rebecca Lu
Low key and blends in. Looks good on black? - woodkadesign
This bohemian outdoor seating area is suited to outdoor entertaining and parties, the seating area is painted in Brassica No.271, while the wooden panels behind are Calke Green No.34.
Zone off a space
Start by thinking about your seating arrangement and use your garden furniture to create an intimate and sociable area. Built-in, U-shaped bench seating such as this is ideal. The owners of this garden have also angled the sides of their raised plant beds to create integrated seat backs you can lean against – genius. - karenrosie
Some kind of orangery or somesuch, where the food is growing around a dining area. Vines are great for a canopy. - webuser_928972792
Window boxes can be mounted outside of deck rails, so they extend the deck space, instead of reducing the footprint. Photo by Steve Masley
We added a beautiful naturalistic pool, landscaping, travertine paving, outdoor shower, custom porch and deck. Low maintenance landscaping, and planted bamboo in a secure 60 mil EPDM containment trench to give the clients privacy. One of our other challenges was to solve the storm water runoff, which we handled with and underground drain system.
The outdoor raised firepit is a nice addition for for sitting around those cool nights. To complete our project was the outdoor lighting design which highlights all of the awesome focal points.
fire pit near spa - jocelyn_bunch
Often, less is more. Take this landscape design composed of climbing roses, hydrangeas, and lilies surrounding a bluestone terrace. This small, suburban garden feels both expansive and intimate. Japanese forest grass softens the edge of the terrace and adds just enough of a modern look to make the garden’s owners, urban transplants, happy. “My husband and I were looking for an outdoor space that had a secret-garden feeling,” says homeowner Anne Lillis-Ruth. “We’ve had fun adding furniture, antique planters, and a stone fountain to [landscape designer] Robert Welsch’s beautiful landscape. The white and green plantings provide the perfect backdrop to my collection of colorful table linens, glassware, and china. We love our garden!”
Dean Fisher loved it, too. “The setting is so lovely and relaxed. It evokes the south of France, with its intimate scale and the integration of house and patio through the use of the vines and other plantings.”
Bluestone A beautiful and hard-wearing material, bluestone comes in varied shades, ranging from pale lilac to deep slate blue. Pro or DIY? Hire a professional stone mason. Large stones can be extremely heavy and difficult to position, and creating a lovely pattern like the one shown here is an art.Process snapshot: A mason levels and prepares the area, and provides for proper drainage. The dug-out space is filled with about 30 centimetres of gravel and a thin layer of stone dust on top. Finally - gail_thomson85
Keeping the Trex decking linear with the cable rail, allows for uninterrupted views.
Photo: Dawn Moore
This garden takes advantage of the chimney tops and attics spaces of the urban landscape of the Back Bay- we refer to it as "Mary-Poppinsville". Split in to two areas- seating and dinning/cooking. shrubs, perennials, annuals, and edibles including: herbs, tomatoes, The client is a gourmet chef and uses the foods in his cooking. With limited space, the most popular edible plants that clients ask for are tomatoes and herbs because the herbs can be used in daily cooking and theres nothing to compare to the homegrown tomato. Where space is generous, we also plant blueberries strawberries, raspberries, lettuces, peppers.