Designing Outdoor Rooms
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Dividing your garden into a series of smaller spaces is a landscape design method to make an outdoor area feel larger, more inviting and purposeful. In this episode we chat about how to design outdoor rooms. We’ll give you guidelines on ideal room proportions and what makes up the floors, walls and ceilings. We also consider how to create effective transitions and flow between the rooms. And can dividing a garden into rooms be done badly? Sure can! This podcast will help you assess your garden and apply these theoretical and practical tips for designing fabulous outdoor rooms in your own garden. Photos for this episode are on Instagram at OnGardenDesign. ☕☕☕ BUY US A COFFEE if you loved this episode 🌼🌷🌱 (00:00) Intro (02:15) Room dimensions (08:22) Law of significant enclosure (10:44) Floors (14:17) Walls (18:52) Entry & exits (21:40) Ceilings (25:46) Flow (30:59) Summary
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