Wooden deck construction
In a garden, by a swimming pool, nothing is more beautiful than a well-appointed terrace!
Building a patio creates additional living space outside the house. Ideal place to delimit a setting where to install a garden furniture or a dining table, the wooden terrace has been on the rise for several years.
Friendly and modern, the terrace allows an ideal adaptation thanks to the modulation of the wooden slats to be able to be integrated in different types of garden.
But how to arrange it? How to build an aesthetic wooden deck? Professionals can take care of enhancing your terrace space as part of a landscaping. The terrace will then be studied on a plan in advance to be optimally integrated into your outdoor space project.
Thanks to our knowledge and experience, the Exo Jardins team in agencies in Téhoule-sur-Mer or Le Cannet (06) imagines and designs your furnished terrace with you.
How to arrange your terrace: 5 key points to create a beautiful outdoor space
The terrace is an additional living room.
In the Alpes-Maritimes near Cannes and Mandelieu-La-Napoule or in the Var in Fréjus or Hyères, the sun is generous and everyone wants to enjoy it. In the PACA region, the terrace is therefore a real living space used throughout the year.
This is why many homeowners seek to create a furnished terrace that is pleasant to live in and adapted to the style of their home.
A natural and Zen wooden terrace in the vegetation or a hard terrace integrated into the surrounding green space, to develop a terrace in the best conditions it is essential to review the key points of a successful development.
Follow the guide: Exo Jardins explains how to design your patio layout according to the rules of the art.
1. Respect the distribution of garden spaces
The terrace must fit into the garden and not be installed like a foreign body in the garden.
The different outdoor spaces all have a specific interest in the design of a landscaped garden. The terrace then completes this overall layout by offering a new living space in the heart of the green space. The construction of your terrace and its layout must be carried out in accordance with the surroundings.
Is your terrace surrounded by plants already planted? Your terrace adjoins a natural staircase or a terraced planter? It must then be integrated into the environment without distorting it. A terrace arrangement on an already vegetated ground requires a precise study to achieve an outdoor space pleasant to live in.
2. Choosing the right plants
A small terrace or a large garden furniture space, plants enhance each terrace arrangement.
However, care must be taken to choose the right plants for the terrace. Many homeowners think that plants are chosen only for the look and style you want to give your patio. Whether it is to be planted in the ground, in a planter or in a pot, patio landscaping plants must be chosen with care.
The evolution of the plantations, their light and shade needs should be put into perspective with the orientation of the terrace, the exposure or the other surrounding plantations. This is an essential step to succeed in creating an aesthetic and sustainable green patio layout.
3. Choose suitable materials to furnish your terrace
Do you want to create a planter at the edge of your terrace? Do you want to create plant beds around the terrace? As part of the development of your wooden or other terrace you must carefully study the choice of materials used.
The materials for outdoor landscaping such as planters must be chosen with great care to respect both the style of the garden and the practicality and health of the plants. Stones for a mineral space or wood for a warm space, materials play an important role in the terrace layout.
4. Think about the style of the terrace
This is the key point of a successful patio layout: you have to establish the style and design of your future outdoor space.
When it comes to setting up a terrace, nothing beats the eyes of an experienced landscaper. Thanks to his experience in the design of green spaces and his know-how, he will be able to advise you on the right arrangements to adopt according to your situation.
Do you want to make your terrace greener and more vegetal? Your landscape gardener will find the right spaces to integrate the plants in conditions conducive to their development. Creation of planters, creation of flower beds, creation of dry garden, take advantage of the services of an expert landscaper to arrange your terrace in the best possible way.
5. Optimize circulation and size
As for the integration into the environment, you must arrange your terrace by thinking of its basic utility.
The circulation spaces and the comfort of the terrace must be preserved at all costs. The part plants / empty space must be precisely measured to create a green design space where you feel good. Plants should not take up too much space and the terrace space should also be well chosen to make this additional living room essential in the house.
Laying out your patio is the best way to achieve the exterior you want to create. Landscape gardener in Théoule-sur-Mer and in Le Cannet near Cannes, the family business Exo Jardins supports you in setting up your terrace with planters, plant spaces ...
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