Designing A Contemporary Garden And Picking Suitable Garden Furniture

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Perhaps the best starting point for contemporary garden design is to use the 80-20 rule, which is a global rule that can be utilized in one form or another for all natural events, which also includes the human variety. When considered for our garden use, it simply means that 80% of your time in the garden will be be spent in about 20% of the garden area! This is a great way to launch your planning process, for as soon you know the foremost thing you want from your garden, then it's mostly quite easy to identify the 20% of the garden where most of your activities (or relaxation!) will happen. The area, shape and characteristics of the area will aid in determining the various possibilities for populating with plants, choosing any any decor, and any other facilities you might want.

That said, we shouldn't try to design a compact roof garden in the same way that we would a conventional one. Usually, we inhabit just 20% of a large garden for about 80% of the time. With a little garden, we actually need to use as much of it as we can to get the maximum benefit from it. First step in designing a roof garden covers the fact we need a space to loosen up, and this area can be really relatively small. Identify approximately four square yards where a raised bed of earth can be installed and plant your lawn! When fully grown, this will be a great area where you will have a little table and chair for taking your meals, or reading, for example. If your roof has a low wall, which is quite standard for a roof area, then fit wooden boxes all along the top. Plant some lovely flowers and some bushes, which will serve to hide the view of the buildings across the street and try to encircle the area with lush foliage. Space is precious and so we need to be resourceful when planning our roof garden design.

The huge scope of garden furniture available enables anyone to pick out a style and quality to suit their pocket. A very cheap chair made of plastic can seem quite elegant when draped with a bright fabric, or made a tad more cozy with a tied cushion for the back and the seat. The grand looking white plastic loungers seen at umpteen leisure resorts are very inexpensive. If you're being careful with your money, they indeed do the job they were made for. At the other end of the spectrum, some contemporary garden furniture has a high price ticket, and in some cases might be more expensive than some of the furniture in your home. Just like everything else, the middle way is usually the most prudent policy, and buying furniture for the garden is no exception. An attractive, durable hardwood is to be preferred over plastic, but in our modern society we always need to consider the ecological consequences of our consumerism.

About the Author:
Peter Bruce is a freelance journalist operating out of Toulouse in France. Subjects covered include contemporary garden design and roof garden design.



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