continued from A Room With A View, part 2

EXTERIOR PROJECTS

Imagine a strong visual connection between the interior and the exterior of your home when you picture these dynamic visuals:

White on white, subtle yet stunning beauty.

• Picture an arbor with the romance of a flowering vine wrapping through it, an architecturally built roof with attractive columns for support, or a retractable awning for maximum versatility. Structures like these help to generate a strong sense of enclosure plus a visual extension from the inside.Consider constructing a screened porch to provide a cool, protected retreat and a confortable space from which to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors.
• Install a screened porch to providing a cool, protected retreat and a confortable space from which to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors.
• Build a grade-level patio to replace your deck, especially if it has seen better days. Decks, with their pickets and railings, can be a major visual obstacle to enjoying outdoor views. Another option is to remove a portion of the railing and install a bench. Careful though, depending on height off the ground this option may be unsafe and/or not meet the building code.

CONNECTING SPACES

Optimize the indoor/outdoor connection by adding or upgrading exterior lighting. It not only provides important safety but also produces an opportunity to enjoy outside features from the inside that would otherwise be lost in the dark.

These stems with electric purple berries of Calicarpa makes stunning arrangements. I can see where it gets it’s common name, beauty berry!

Imagine creative ways to bring nature inside. Arrangements of early blooms such as bulbs, azalea blossoms, and spring and summer annuals add lovely color. Consider unusual  combinations of evergreens and grasses, branches with berries, and cones or unique bark. Naturalistic arrangements are stunning and unusual and brighten any setting. Bring the kids into the process of going on a nature hunt to spot the uniqueness found nature, and get them to take part in playing with ways to combine                                                                                                        your finds.

Passion flower blossoms floating in water bring nature to the table

If you started reading here, for the whole story, troll back to parts one and two of this series A Room With A View and A Room With A View, part 2.  You’ll be you with the result when these design concepts are integrated with any interior or exterior project. Double duty and mirror image principles can take the best advantage of all your home has to offer – inside and out!