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Creative Ideas For Outdoor Patio And Yard Design
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Company with a 3 Attract Custom Fire Pit
If you want to gather people in a specific place, light a fire. Apart from keeping people warm, an outdoor fire pit is a great marvel to watch. This is the reason people sometimes say you don’t need a television if you have a fire. When designing a fire pit, you need to ensure that it’s positioned in place where you can really relax. Do this by getting comfortable benches with cushions and pillows. The idea is to ensure that people can sit around the fire pit no matter how cold it gets. Before you purchase and install your fire pit, be sure to check your area regulations to determine any legal issues you need to consider.
It Cool with an 4 Keep Outdoor Shower Rekindle the love with a romantic bench BY LAUREN HARRIS
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A well-designed patio or yard comes with many benefits. It provides you with an opportunity to put a personal touch on an important part of your home, making both your family and visitors feel more comfortable in the outdoors. If you decide to sell your house, your patio could appeal to potential buyers, adding more value to the property.
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hile there is no doubt that a great patio or yard invites the people staying in the home to spend more time outdoors, benefiting from the advantages of fresh air and sunlight, designing these spaces can be challenging. If you are looking for creative ideas for designing your outdoors, this article is for you.
Use What You Have
Creating a great patio does not always need to be expensive. Start by looking around to see if there are any items lying around or in storage that you could use. The idea of using old things to make new ones is known as upcycling. Writing for Reuters.com, Belinda Goldsmith defines upcycling as “reusing an object in a new way without
Save space with a vertical garden.
degrading the material it is made from, as opposed to recycling which generally involves breaking down the original material and making it into something else, using more energy.” Lina D. is a writer at BoredPanda. com, a digital art and pop culture magazine. She presents some cool upcycling ideas you can use in your patio, such as turning old bowler hats into lampshades, tennis rackets into mirrors, a bathtub into a couch and skateboards into a children’s picnic table.
have a garden with tall trees. If you don’t have a garden with tall trees, you can still have your romantic bench and put it under a foldable umbrella. All you need is a secluded space where lovers can get their privacy to whisper little nothings to each other.
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The website that delivers health and wellness information, Healthline. com, lists science-backed reasons plants are good for all of us. For example, it says that plants can help reduce stress, sharpen attention, help us recover from illnesses, and improve our general outlook on life. When it comes to wall plants on your patio, you have several choices. If you are looking for a more permanent solution, you can create a vertical Rekindle the Love with garden. Apart from making your a Romantic Bench space look great, vertical gardens help If you have a patio, there is no need save space. You could also reap more to walk to a park just to sit on a roman- benefits if you include edible plants. tic bench. You can create your own If you want something temporarily, romantic space by putting a bench in a pocket shoe organizer could be the your yard. This idea is perfect if you best place for growing the plants.
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Add sophistication with fountains.
Ask anyone that has ever taken a shower in the outdoors overlooking a lake or other water body on a summer day, and they will tell you that nothing feels better. Depending on the amount of space you have, an outdoor shower can either be permanent or temporary. Bob Vila, the television host of various shows, including This Old House, has some stunning ideas for an outdoor shower. Examples range from fully exposed showers to tree shade showers.
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Add Sophistication with Fountains
A fountain is a must-have in your patio or yard. Here are a few reasons for getting one: • It creates a relaxed ambiance. • The sound of falling water lessens unwanted noises. • If you meditate, a fountain can be an altar. • A water fountain attracts different forms of wildlife, including birds and butterflies. Visit www.icosiest.com/blogs/ outdoor/creative-ideas-outdoorpatio-yard-design to read more of Harris’ ideas for redesigning your outdoor space.
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Popular Bathroom Trends In 2022 As people are constantly buying and selling property, many will be keen to update their homes. One way to refresh and add value to your home is through adopting new interior design trends and research shows a new bathroom can add between four to five percent to the value of your home.
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ntrigued to find out which bathroom trends will be the most popular in 2022, experts at Showerstoyou.co.uk scraped Pinterest to discover the bathroom trends people are taking inspiration from the most, by analyzing the number of pins for each style.
Top 10 Bathroom Trends On Pinterest, represented by pins (or likes): 1. White bathrooms 153,071 2. Marble bathrooms 145,765 3. Industrial bathrooms 139,235 4. Wallpaper bathrooms 86,472 5. Old and new bathrooms 55,938 6. Blue bathrooms 52,304 7. Spa bathrooms 49,736 8. Black-accented bathrooms 9. Green bathrooms 38,402 10. Japandi bathrooms 18,538
Showerstoyou revealed that the most pinned bathroom trend on Pinterest is white bathrooms. This trend has an astounding 153,071 total pins across 801 boards. The design style is characterised by the clean, simplicity of white features. In second place is marble bathrooms with 145,765 total pins on Pinterest and 970 boards. A pretty and timeless choice for any bathroom, which explains its popularity. Third is industrial bathrooms which comprises stripped back architectural details including the use of bare bricks, metals and wood, as well as salvaged and recycled materials. This trend has 139,235 total pins across 873 boards. In fourth position is wallpaper bathrooms with 86,472 total pins and 1,000 boards. This trend sees bold and colourful prints make bathrooms stand out for their form rather than just their function.
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In fifth position is “old and new” shower, washbasin, sink, bidet, bathrooms (55,938 total pins and etc.), windows, doors, pipework and 718 boards) that encompasses radiators. Then note down aspects the character of older and quirky that you want to change or keep the features, with the sleek and clean same. modern look. • Remodeling when renovating. This Darren Smith, a spokesperson for means more work, but gives you Showerstoyou, revealed his top tips the chance to change and bring on bathroom renovation: together separate elements. • Ensure that you set a budget. Total • Pick your sanitaryware early on. It is cost is usually upwards of $4,000 important that your electrician and plumber know where the pipework but will vary depending on the size and electric will need to go at each and finish of the bathroom. design stage. This will avoid any • Create a layout. Plot the layout of work needing to be redone. your current bathroom, including —Showerstoyou.co.uk sanitaryware (toilets, urinal, bath,
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A Childproofing Checklist Getting ready for a baby’s arrival involves a lot more than just buying a crib, stroller and boxes of diapers. According to the 2022 Annual Childproofing Report by SafeHome.org, 40 percent of parents believe a child’s injury could have been avoided had they taken proper childproofing precautions in and around the home.
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oddlers have an incredible way of getting into just about anything they see. Safehome dadfluencer Patrick Quinn from Life of Dad blog (www.lifeofdad.com) shares useful pointers for how to childproof each section of your home.
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Lock your stove knobs. • Keep your window-blind cords either cut short or tucked away so that especially if they contain dangerous children don’t get entangled in them. items like scissors or knives. • Install door stops and door holders, • Make sure electric appliances are they work wonders to keep little unplugged when they are not in use. fingers from being pinched. • Cover unused outlets so that children Bathroom are not tempted to stick their tiny • Install safety locks fingers in and get shocked. and latches on • Use safety gates if your home has your toilet so that stairs. your child doesn’t Use safety gates. Use strap locks get into it. on cabinets. Kitchen containing chemicals in the bathstored out of reach. • Place a rubber • Lock your stove knobs. You never • Check if your child’s highchair slipcover next to the bathtub to avoid room is locked. know when your kid will decide to features a safety strap between the your child slipping and falling when ignite your stove burners. legs. Dining Room the area is wet. • Secure low drawers in your kitchen, • Make sure that the cabinet —Safehome.org • Make sure that glass objects are
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