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Having a patio in your house will add the pleasure of spending time at home. It can be the centre of your indoor activity with the whole family. To build a patio, there are few things that you need to pay attention to.

Six Basic Elements

There are several things to consider, such as the size and purpose, since planning to make the patio. These include:

1. Size of house building.

2. The location where the patio will be built.

3. Two-Level or Split-Level (altitude difference floor. Like the mezzanine at home)

4. Patio entrance area. Such as the porch of the house toward the rear garden or other access from inside the house to the patio.

5. Patio division associated with the path (or a stepping stone pathways), functioning as a liaison from the home access to the patio, or can serve as a barrier between the pavement areas with plants in the patio area.
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The existence of the gazebo is the main attraction in a yard. Same with a terrace or balcony, gazebo can wake up in the front, side and rear yard. Each placement of a beautiful garden gazebo requires the availability and accessibility.

Gazebo area should have one fifth of the total land area in the home page. This is so well-balanced proportions and yard gazebo. Gazebo that is greater than that number can create a crowded atmosphere.

2m x 2m gazebo is the minimum size for optimizing your activities. By that measure, you can still put two pillows chairs, small tables, and two-accessories on the table.

Gazebo should be a minimum distance is 2m from the nearest wall of the house. With this distance, you need to make compensation for the opposite side wall of the garden elements, such as ponds, waterfalls, water jars, and beautiful plants.
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In designing the garden, the existence of all potential designs based on the senses, it is not a good benchmark whether or not a garden. The use of senses in designing the garden is intended to create a garden that suits your needs and benefits of what we want to get.

Sense of Sight
Associated with eyes that will see everything is beautiful, harmonious and evocative feeling. Many things can be explored more, especially on game composition of shapes, colors, and sizes.

Create a design that inspires caution when briefly seen, providing a sense of calm, cool and feeling comfortable on the design of the garden with a combination of potential and constraints in factor analysis and the element of the garden.

Smelling Sense
The smell of all the elements that exist in the garden can be used to produce a soothing aroma and other benefits. One way is by bringing plants or certain types of flowers with fragrance.

In addition, the smell of grass when exposed to pouring rain the first time as well as therapeutic miss the atmosphere of the mountains. But keep in mind the level of sensitivity to the scent of a person or small particles that can make allergies to more serious illnesses are asthma and other respiratory disorders.
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