complete, I can accessorize the casual living patio furniture with container gardens, outdoor lighting, plants, fountains, fire pits and weather-resistant fabrics.

I have my plan in hand and head to my local garden center where I purchase the needed supplies to make that plan a reality.

The work is complete now and I am enjoying my new outdoor room with casual living patio furniture, containers filled with vibrant colored flowers, a garden arb

For years I have struggled with the decision of whether to sell my country home with it’s massive amount of lawn care and work or move into the city with a very small backyard that is easily maintained on a Saturday morning. When spring arrives every year, the dilemma of that decision becomes overwhelming. I struggle for a month or so and always come to the same conclusion. Stay where I am, get out there and get to work. Once I have made that decision, the ideas and visions begin to flow. Ideas of how to improve my outdoor living spaces by moving the garden bench to a new location and surrounding it with shade loving plants, creating a new conversation area on the patio with casual living patio furniture or grand ideas of actually dividing the entire space into garden rooms with fences, hedges or flower beds and making each room totally different. I begin by choosing one of those ideas and acting on it.

The idea of garden rooms has taken priority so I have decided to tackle the task of creating the first of many garden rooms. I sit to write the step by step plan:

1. Determine where the garden room will be located and the size of the room.

2. Choose a floor surface such as dirt, grass, decking, stone, gravel or brick.

3. Create garden room walls with fences, hedges or flower beds. If I want to completely separate the room use a tall formal hedge or privacy fence. To keep the rooms open and more connected I might choose to use flower beds, containers or just a different type of floor surface.

4. I stand in the space and look up. I can then decide what type of ceiling I want to incorporate into the space. The sky usually acts as the ceiling, but I could choose to use a pergola, covered porch, a canopy of trees, a garden arbor or an umbrella.

5. Once the work is complete, I can accessorize the casual living patio furniture with container gardens, outdoor lighting, plants, fountains, fire pits and weather-resistant fabrics.

I have my plan in hand and head to my local garden center where I purchase the needed supplies to make that plan a reality.

The work is complete now and I am enjoying my new outdoor room with casual living patio furniture, containers filled with vibrant colored flowers, a garden arbo

, the ideas and visions begin to flow. Ideas of how to improve my outdoor living spaces by moving the garden bench to a new location and surrounding it with shade loving plants, creating a new conversation area on the patio with casual living patio furniture or grand ideas of actually dividing the entire space into garden rooms with fences, hedges or flower beds and making each room totally different. I begin by choosing one of those ideas and acting on it.

The idea of garden rooms has taken priority so I have decided to tackle the task of creating the first of many garden rooms. I sit to write the step by step plan:

1. Determine where the garden room will be located and the size of the room.

2. Choose a floor surface such as dirt, grass, decking, stone, gravel or brick.

3. Create garden room walls with fences, hedges or flower beds. If I want to completely separate the room use a tall formal hedge or privacy fence. To keep the rooms open and more connected I might choose to use flower beds, containers or just a different type of floor surface.

4. I stand in the space and look up. I can then decide what type of ceiling I want to incorporate into the space. The sky usually acts as the ceiling, but I could choose to use a pergola, covered porch, a canopy of trees, a garden arbor or an umbrella.

5. Once the work is complete, I can accessorize the casual living patio furniture with container gardens, outdoor lighting, plants, fountains, fire pits and weather-resistant fabrics.

I have my plan in hand and head to my local garden center where I purchase the needed supplies to make that plan a reality.

The work is complete now and I am enjoying my new outdoor room with casual living patio furniture, containers filled with vibrant colored flowers, a garden arb

it.

The idea of garden rooms has taken priority so I have decided to tackle the task of creating the first of many garden rooms. I sit to write the step by step plan:

1. Determine where the garden room will be located and the size of the room.

2. Choose a floor surface such as dirt, grass, decking, stone, gravel or brick.

3. Create garden room walls with fences, hedges or flower beds. If I want to completely separate the room use a tall formal hedge or privacy fence. To keep the rooms open and more connected I might choose to use flower beds, containers or just a different type of floor surface.

4. I stand in the space and look up. I can then decide what type of ceiling I want to incorporate into the space. The sky usually acts as the ceiling, but I could choose to use a pergola, covered porch, a canopy of trees, a garden arbor or an umbrella.

5. Once the work is complete, I can accessorize the casual living patio furniture with container gardens, outdoor lighting, plants, fountains, fire pits and weather-resistant fabrics.

I have my plan in hand and head to my local garden center where I purchase the needed supplies to make that plan a reality.

The work is complete now and I am enjoying my new outdoor room with casual living patio furniture, containers filled with vibrant colored flowers, a garden arb

e a tall formal hedge or privacy fence. To keep the rooms open and more connected I might choose to use flower beds, containers or just a different type of floor surface.

4. I stand in the space and look up. I can then decide what type of ceiling I want to incorporate into the space. The sky usually acts as the ceiling, but I could choose to use a pergola, covered porch, a canopy of trees, a garden arbor or an umbrella.

5. Once the work is complete, I can accessorize the casual living patio furniture with container gardens, outdoor lighting, plants, fountains, fire pits and weather-resistant fabrics.

I have my plan in hand and head to my local garden center where I purchase the needed supplies to make that plan a reality.

The work is complete now and I am enjoying my new outdoor room with casual living patio furniture, containers filled with vibrant colored flowers, a garden arb

complete, I can accessorize the casual living patio furniture with container gardens, outdoor lighting, plants, fountains, fire pits and weather-resistant fabrics.

I have my plan in hand and head to my local garden center where I purchase the needed supplies to make that plan a reality.

The work is complete now and I am enjoying my new outdoor room with casual living patio furniture, containers filled with vibrant colored flowers, a garden arbor covered with wisteria, birds and butterflies fluttering around and a beautiful fountain that makes me remember a stream near my home when I was a child.

Needless to say, I am happy with my decision to keep my country home with it’s massive amount of lawn care and work. That work doesn’t seem quite as overwhelming now as it did at the beginning of spring.