Category: Exterior Design

Gardens and Landscapes
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• By: Barbara Ley

Escape Into Your Very Own Secret Garden

Didn’t you ever wonder what the garden from the story “The Secret Garden” really looked like? If you let your imagination go wild, it isn’t difficult to picture an area bordered by lush green hedges and fragrant trees, with winding paths, flower shrubs and a fountain at the heart of it all.

What if you could have such a grand sight in your own backyard? Wouldn’t you like to escape into this private paradise just a few steps away from your backdoor?

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Exterior Design
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• By: Barbara Ley

Garden Setups for the Young and Young at Heart

While the yard often serves as a quiet retreat, it also serves as an area where the children are free to roam around and explore the world around them. To encourage your children to spend time outside the house and in the yard, check out some of these ideas to create a garden that’s perfect for kids and for kids at heart.

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Design Trends
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• By: Barbara Ley

Style Options Add To The Outdoor Fifth Room

Nowadays we are extremely lucky to have so many incredible options for our outdoor design solutions.Since we have the incredible materials that allow us to have infinite creativity with our outdoor room, we must all let go of our aged preconceptions of what outdoor furniture should be. There is no reason that our outdoor furniture cannot stem from the styles of its indoor counterparts.

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Fifthroom Markets Insider
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Potted Plant TopDressings

Container gardening is one of the trendiest garden styles going today—gardeners with both large and small spaces love to create mini landscapes on their windowsills, balconies, decks and patios. But there’s a trick that many professional landscapers use that homeowners often forget, and it makes the difference between a pretty good container planting and one that’s stunning. What is it?

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