Now could be the ideal time to establish an outdoor living area in your Middleton, WI, and Waunakee, WI, backyard so that you will have a fully relaxing space for enjoying the summer weather. Bring your indoor activities outside with these ideas to turn it into the perfect space.
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Some Planning Considerations
Before envisioning and styling your outdoor living area, there are some decisions you will want to make. Your landscape team can help you think through these choices.
First, choose the location. You want this newly developed space to be convenient to the rest of your home so that it authentically expands your living area. Second, discuss with your landscapers the proper shape for this outdoor living space. You might want to have a circular living area to contrast with the angular exterior of your home, or you could be envisioning a traditional rectangular shape for your patio. Ultimately, you want the outdoor living room to seamlessly mesh with the outside of your home and the rest of the landscape.
Third, how large would you like your outdoor living space? Deciding on the activities that are priorities can help to determine the size. Will you mostly entertain there? Do you want a fairly simple space for your family to enjoy time together? Your landscapes can ask the pertinent questions that help you decide those answers.
Outdoor Living Ideas
Paver patio: A gorgeous patio can become the perfect setting for your outdoor activities. Your landscapers can help you select natural stone or concrete pavers to complement the look of your outdoor space. They can also help you choose a laying pattern, such as herringbone, and a contrasting band of different colored stone or pavers to add interest to this surface area.
Shelter or no shelter: When you opt to cover the patio with a lovely pergola that gives dappled sunlight or a full roof to keep the elements out, you won’t have to worry about the harsh summer sun or a rainy afternoon ruining your plans. Such shelter can allow you to incorporate media like a TV and an outdoor desk for working outside on a pretty day.
Fire feature: Adding a majestic outdoor fireplace to this space brings warmth and ambiance as only a fire can. It could become the focal point of your outdoor living room, or you could choose to have a fire pit for a less imposing fire feature. Either option will extend the amount of time you will want to spend outside, and help you replicate that coziness and warmth you experience while inside.
Outdoor furniture: Landscape pros can also help you when it comes to adding durable, comfortable outdoor furniture to your new living space. Couches that are just as comfy as your indoor furniture and just as stylish, but weatherproof and with a more appropriate style for the outdoors, can be selected.
When carefully designed and constructed with the end goal in mind, an outdoor living room can become the space you most love to spend most of your time, whether it involves enjoying breakfast outside or finishing the day by the fire.
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