DIY Garden Design, Ideas, Hints, Tips and InspirationDIY Garden Design is here to bring you ideas, inspiration and hints and tips for giving your garden, patio or back yard a makeover. Here you can find some information about garden design, patio timber decking ideas, garden lighting, patio heaters and a plant guide. |
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Garden Design, Inspiration, Ideas, Hints and Tips
Designing your own garden makeover isn't complicated, there's no right or wrong way to tackle a DIY garden design, it's your garden and with a bit of effort you can transform even the smallest garden into a lovely place to spend the summer days or evenings.
Things to Consider before starting your Design.
Before going out and spending time or money roaming the local garden centers you'll have to first decide on what you'd like to use your garden for. Will it be a place for the children or grandchildren to play, a place for entertaining friends or a quite tranquil place to relax in and enjoy the summer sun?
Other things to consider
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Timber Decking / Stone Patio Slabs
If you'd like to spend some time sitting in your garden you'll somewhere for your garden furniture, be it a small deck chair or two or hardwood table and chair set.
Timber Decking, Garden Decks
Garden Decking is very fashionable these days and a very popular DIY design project for your garden, typically suited for the medium to larger garden. If you like the look and feel of decking but don't want a big project then look out for Wickes Deck Tiles which can be laid onto a solid surface such as concrete.
More Design Ideas using Timber Decking can be found here at DIY Timber Decking.
Stone Patio Paving
There's no need to keep your out of date crazy paving when you can have a circular patio. There is an amazing assortment of stone paving, from simple patio slabs, stone circles, Squaring off kits, octant kits etc. A stone patio is a superb addition to any garden or patio area.
Popular textures include
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Barbecues - Eating out in your Garden
Cooking outdoors is a great experience, there is huge variety of barbecues available with gas and charcoal are the most popular. From a simple disposable BBQ tray, drum BBQ to stainless steel, brick built and stone barbecues, the choice is endless. There are also wood burning stoves available. Health and Safety is very important and care should always be taken when cooking outside.
Garden Lighting, Solar Lights, Garden Candles
If you're planning on entertaining in the evening then you'll need some lighting, garden lights come in basically three types, electric with require cables, solar and candle lights. All three have their advantages and disadvantages. Electric are more reliable but require cables, solar are cable free and environmentally friendly but need sunlight to charge and candle garden lights are cheap but definitely require careful consideration if children and pets are around.
Heating, Garden Patio Heaters, Gas Heater, Wood Stoves
Garden patio heaters have became very popular over the recent years. Gas heaters come in popular racing green and stainless steel and use a Heat deflector at the top to direct the heat down to the patio. An alternative to the gas bottle patio heaters are the wood stove or charcoal burner the benefit of these heaters are you don't have to worry about having a gas bottle refilled and the safety issues surrounding the storage of the gas bottle.
Plants, Shrubs and Trees
Plant Guide Coming Soon
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