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4.08.2013

Make Your Porch One Great Place.

It is very nice to live in a house. Though it requires many efforts and finances to be maintained in good condition and to make improvements on it, you can never compare its comfort to anything else.

The indoor space is important, but surely it is very good if you take nice care about your porch and backyard, because there you will spend many nice and pleasant hours. The porch is the face of your place – what a nice rhyme. It is the first thing a person will see from your house. So you do not have to neglect its look and the opportunity to make it unique.
Make Your Porch One Great Place_1Last but not least, make it nice for yourself and your family.

There are several simple and easy ideas, that will help you have good looking porch. You may not have a special garden in front of your house, but it is good idea to put pots with flowers near the entrance. This way you will feel nice aroma each time you leave or come inside the house, which will create special tranquil impression for coming home and nice fresh mood when you are going out to work or anywhere else. When you are arranging the flowers, pick some with calming scent like the lavender, gardenias or jasmine. Roses can also do great job, if they have strong smell.

The hot summers will sometime take you out on your porch, spending cooling evenings with a drink in your hand. You will need comfortable furniture first of all, but you should give a chance to the idea to install a ceiling fan. It will both add special looks and will be very useful equipment for the hot evenings. Make Your Porch One Great Place_2

In case you have many pots with flowers on your porch, but they are all different and you do not like it this, you can take them and paint them all one by one in terra-cotta color. You can do the painting in any other color, it will be all good as long as they look the same, but the terra-cotta color will create special connection and association with the ground.

Even if you do not have finances to buy special furniture for the porch, you can still make it comfortable as you furnish it with stuff from sales. You can find very nice looking and unique things. If they all look different and this bothers you, you can make pillows and covers, which will make one big ensemble from all these parts. Use bright and live colors, stripes and any other patterns to give your façade catchy and positive look.


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