Creating an intimate outdoor space can sometimes be challenging as design your interior space!
Well as usual I have some DiG iT TiPs that can assist you in creating the outdoor seating space that rivals your interior seating areas!
Let’s Get Started!
DiG iT TiP #1 LOCATION
Locate a space in your landscape where you feel you most comfortable at the most common time of the day you will use the space the most.
DiG iT TiP # 2 HOW BIG
Determine what furniture pieces you will need to complete your idea seating space. If you are creating for example a dining room space outside use the same principles that were used when building you home inside. The dining areas are usually located right off from the kitchen. My outdoor dining area is covered and just steps away from my outdoors cooking space, from grill to the table with ease. I am able to seat 6 people at my dining room table.
DiG iT TiP #3 ACCESSORIES
Don’t forget to add the same finishing touches you adorned the inside of your home with outside. There are many outdoor decorating products on the market (cheap) that endure the humid sunny conditions we encounter in S. Florida. I love the use of overhead lighting, large vases, colorful cushions, and as always give my quest a table set up that rivals some of the best hotels!
Another item that I love to use outdoors is a large mirror! I MEAN LARGE 5ft x 3ft this is a great way to achieve two things.
- Increase the size of a small space
- Fill a blank wall or cover that old fashioned pass through kitchen window that most of us find useless. Besides, people love looking at themselves in the mirror!
There is also a wide range of outdoor canvas art that work well in wet conditions and sunny spaces!
I love being outdoors even in the summer late evenings can be cooled off by the addition of an outdoor fan or misting system! They are effective separately but together they can drop the temp in your space by 20 degrees.
DiG iT TiP #4 BITE ME
We know that summer brings with it many beautiful things but the one thing it brings is that pesky mosquito! I have some suggestions that can help you control this unwelcomed summer pest!
There are many products on the market that claim to kill or control mosquitoes! I have noticed over the years that the common mosquito has evolved into the NINJA SKEETER!!! Harder to kill and more of them!
Other than investing in one of those $5000.00 misting machines for your back yard I can’t think of a better way to get rid of the mosquitoes in your back yard than what I’ve put together below.
I purchased at Home Depot an electric hand held fogger made by Black Flag along with this product and citronella torches I am able to keep the pest away by light my torches and fogging my yard 1 hour before and again 30 minutes before my guest arrive.
Empty out all containers that can hold water and perhaps turn them upside down to prevent future collection opportunities. Rinse you bird baths as often as you can to prevent larvea from maturing.
The fogger actually kills the mosquito and it’s larvae in the immediate area and the torches keep them away while you entertain you guest in your new outdoor space.
I hope these tips help you getting outdoors this summer!!!!
Get Dirty Gardening!
Kelley