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Article: Dress up outdoor room with personal touches
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2008
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Almost any outdoor space can be turned into an outdoor room that reflects your style, whether patio, deck or concrete pad.
Make it private
Outdoor rooms need structure, just as an indoor room, to help provide intimacy and com-fort. Some money-saving solutions for adding "walls" include: anchoring a wooden trellis in a large planter and hanging small pots of colorful flowers throughout; attaching sheer fabric panels to porch overhangs with metal hoops and hooks; or propping a re-claimed garden gate behind a bench or against a deck railing.
Outdoor furniture options
Furnishing an outdoor room can quickly add up, but using ...