Synopses & Reviews
Illustrated throughout with hundreds of rich, evocative photographs, The Garden Room takes you through all the traditional home decorating elements, showing how these same principles can be applied to the outside space with wonderful effects. It is full of inspirational and original ideas that do not demand expert plant knowledge or hours of toil to keep a garden or courtyard looking good.
There are innovative treatments for outside floors, from a guide to creating unusual ground surfaces to step-by-step projects for a pebble 'rug' and an alpine wheel. The author suggests decorative paint and plaster effects for walls and fences; beautiful ways to introduce trellises and other fixtures into the garden; decorative effects for window boxes and baskets; and original ways to display plants and flowers. There are also ideas for furniture treatments and other outdoor accessories -- from gilded candle pots to hanging wire hearts -- and much more.