Some design ideas for your home Outdoor room
February 12, 2010 by Tim
Filed under Practical Renovation, Renovating, property market, tips
Today, I have been challenged to detail some unique real life story.
I am writing about the outdoor room.
On one recent project, the plan was to open up a backyard to great views over the local bay. The home being only 83 metres from the bay, had a broken rotting pine deck and a large garage filling the private rear garden.
I had the rotten deck demolished and the garage sold off and removed. The overgrown garden was severely trimmed and surplus of decrepit plants removed.
These are the things we did for the project.
Build a large curved, elevated, Hardwood Merbau deck built with direct access to the Kitchen and living rooms, via sliding glass doors. This connected the living areas to the large rear garden and deck.
The garden was given a most vigourous makeover, with new flowering Camellias, Flowering Standard Iceberg white roses and a new fence for privacy. A Pittosstrum hedge and fence extensions of trellis gave even more privacy. A feature cream sandstone retaining wall was built around the newly installed, instant rollout turf lawn.
I considered this project a terrific success. It achieved a great view over the ocean, a large private rear garden and a close connection beteween the indoor living areas, the deck and garden.
In the future, I anticipate the Outdoor room will be coming a desirable addition. I expect many more Australians will be working from home. Many will be entering extended retirement years. An Outdoor room in my view should have close connection to the living areas. In this way, one can enjoy it even on wet cold days, by viewing from the indoors. An outdoor room might be a deck , balcony, patio, or even grassed space: where one can have features like a Kitchen, barbeque, Fridge, water feature, outdoor heater, Large umbrella, robust furniture, weather proof TV or a day bed.
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Some photos of the project would be great Tim!
Good Point Michelle,
I h ave the web designer working on this. Given him a heap of specially selected photos.
He seems to work at own, pace in the Philippines , think he is a high school student.
Site is always under improvement . Have been suggested “write some real life stories” and Anecdotes.
Cheers Tim
Wonderfully done. It’s perfect success. Anyways, do you have an oak chair furniture for your garden? That would be a great accent for your new garden. Thanks.
Every one needs a large comfy, outdoor chair like an Oak chair. I manage with stuff from the bulk stores, but for a more personal piece one could contemplate, a specialist piece of furniture, as a, special feature.
Thank you for this informative blog…for posting such great information. I personally just made over my backyard. It was easy. Just replaced our old patio fire pit and voila! Looks amazing.
Completely, agree such a straight forward, makeover, add a “Fire pit”. I find the outdoor room is a great way to add more living areas, features like a fire,BBQ, lights, waterfall pool, TV are all great ways to add amenity to the outdoors room.
I’m motivated! It’s nice to see somebody very passionate about what they do. Trust all your future posts turn out as well.sorry if i am an idiot,Just i thought something let me say you that. I was so happy after reading that,for a moment i thought i should have been the owner of this one.No problem. hope i will be able to write like this sometime.And you are there for me to take the guidance hope you will help me.The student is here sir.
Hi rahulcool,
Great to get some favourable feedback. I am writing as practice for my future books . As an housing economist researcher of many years, I hope my posts give you and others some useful insights. In my country Australia , there is a major housing property boom. Yet many people don t understand or agree with this housing boom. I try and offer some insights. The opportunity here in Australia , is terrific with Australia as one of the few developed countries to continue to have growth and a bright future. Australia has a massive immigration programme and people from the world are bringing new ideas to and design their own future.’
Best wishes Writer.