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Hi guys, is everything right there? Today I am going to give you several tips to decorate all sizes of terraces. I think these ambient a true charm, eve for whom that has just a small balcony it is possible to compound a delightful little corner by using few furniture and plants.
I love green, I have a deep connection with nature. Through the plant, we can clearly see the cycles of the environment and the small miracles that sprout from the earth. They broadcast pieces, coziness, and bring life. For those who live in an apartment, the terrace is a great opportunity to bring greener to into home, even for those who have not much time, believe me, there are plants that demand almost no work and bring much pleasure.
But look, before to full your terrace with plants, define the objective of this area. Will it be a space to relax, a corner to read, a place to practice yoga, a home office, a gourmet terrace to host friends? Define the function, so, measure the space before going shopping, for not to make mistakes in the furniture and plants proportions.
Attention, unless your terrace is closed with glass, it is important that the furniture is specific to external areas, and, therefore, prepared to receive sunny and rain.
Small terrace
There are many forms to take nature into your home, if the terrace is small some details are enough to place become beautiful and cozy. For these cases, it is important to take all spaces, for this reason, making a vertical garden is a great idea. Thereby utilizing the air space to hang vases. This alternative is cool, just take care of the local and height, so that people do not hit them. You can also use shelves, hanging planters, and holder flower box to hang pots on the railings of the balcony itself.
Hanging Planters
Flower box with holder
If your problem is that your floor has been ugly, I have two cool tips for those who want to change the terrace’s look but do not want a breakdown. The first one is to use synthetical grass to give that aspect of the fresh garden, and the second one is to make a wooden deck, many stores sell the square ready, it is just to buy the quantity you need to fit in the space. It gets beautiful
Wooden deck
The terrace, even that is small, is a cool place to make a little vegetable garden, in the next post I will teach you how to set a vegetable garden at your home, so do not miss that.
Is it possible to close the terrace with glass and integrate it with the living room, this will make the ambient wider and allow us to use rugs and pillows without concern with weather conditions? Can you imagine how delightful is a terrace with a futon lots of cushions and a vertical garden? Tell me if a little corner like that is not perfect to relax.
Gourmet Terrace
In Brazil are more and more popular apartments with a grill on the terrace, they are called the Gourmet terraces. It is a delightful and informal space to receive friends and relatives.
In these cases, it is also suitable to utilize the vertical space to put shelves and niches, because you will need a place to store stuff. Do you know what gets beautiful? Using wood boxes as niches gives a rustic and modern aspect. I love it.
To optimize the space and became it function, you can make planned and multifunctional furniture. Of course, to add plants, for bringing life and happiness to the environment.
I wish to take and give you a special tip for when you get to receive visits to your gourmet terrace. The external areas usually have more insects, and the food attracts more of these undesirable visitors, to take the mosquitoes away and other insects in a natural and beautiful way, watch this video.
Home office terrace
Suddenly we have had to adapt to the home office and most of us had not a space to work at home, this made a lot of people transformed their terraces in home office. This is a good alternative, after all, it is possible to create a functional and beautiful ambient, even that is on a terrace.
In this case, besides closing it with glass, it will be necessary to invest in curtains to avoid excess lighting, add suitable furniture, and of course, a little plant. Is it not really guys? At least a “Mexican snow ball (Echeveria elegans)”.
If you wish details of how to set a home office at home, I have written a post about this issue, explaining the characteristics of the furniture to this goal.
What plants to use
Everything will depend on the sunny quality that the place receives, the time you have for taking care of the plants, and the incidence of wind. I am going to give you some ideas, but the ideal is ever looking for specialist help, generally in the same store where sell plant has someone to auxiliary you.
Terrace with a lot of sunny: some palm trees, like Phoenix Tree, Dracaena, Bougainvillea, Blue Potatobush, Cape Leadwort, and it is possible to have a fruit tree if space allows it. Imagine what delightful, guys.
Terrace with middle-shadow: African spear, Screwpine, and Ponytail palm.
Terrace with shadow: Bamboo palm and the bromeliads family (Guzmania, Aechmea, Neoregelia), Cylindrical snake plant, and some types of Orchids.
And talking about orchid, look at how I take care of my orchids here at home:
Connection with the life
My final message to you that have a small terrace there in your home, make value this space and take the green to your home. To accompany the development of a small plant is so good, it is to be present in life’s miracle, it makes well to heart and fills the eyes of happiness.
If you have a garden on your terrace that makes you proud, share it there on Instagram and mark me, @lumarinhodesign, I would like to see that very much. If you do not follow me there, you are losing several very interesting tips.
Kiss
