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- EARTH -<br />
Landscaping your surroundings contributes invaluably to<br />
that sense of enclosure and feeling of being in the great<br />
outdoors that you want for your outdoor room. You might<br />
grow a grape or passion fruit vine up ceiling posts or across<br />
fixed louvres or pretty things up with some mini citrus in<br />
colourful pots. Frame your outdoor space naturally with<br />
plants that double as privacy screening, and think about using<br />
potted plants to augment your colour theme. Try sculptural<br />
beauties like succulents, cacti or agaves in statement planters,<br />
or source vertical garden planters (try Outland Living) for a<br />
wall of greenery or herbs. For a less hard-edged look than<br />
timber or metal, keep things natural with large rocks artfully<br />
arranged to screen and enclose seating areas.<br />
Stoked Stainless outdoor electric bath.<br />
Designed by Damian Wendelborn, this garden featured<br />
in the 2017 Auckland Garden DesignFest.<br />
- WATER -<br />
Set your soundtrack to soothing with<br />
a trickling fountain or water feature<br />
or captivate with the glistening blue of a<br />
swimming pool. Or go for the ultimate in<br />
H 2<br />
O enticement, a swim spa.<br />
Christchurch’s Mayfair Park Landscapes<br />
is developing a flat-panel water feature<br />
that incorporates an outdoor shower as an<br />
option for its ‘outdoor living sanctuary’, a<br />
bespoke designed space that would typically<br />
include a deck, louvre roof, outdoor fire and<br />
a water feature.<br />
But why stop at a shower, when you<br />
can have an outdoor bath? Wanaka’s cedar<br />
hot tub star, Stoked Stainless, has added<br />
an electric bath to its range. Generously<br />
seating two, the tub nicely straddles the<br />
gap between outdoor bath, which must be<br />
refilled with hot water prior to each use,<br />
and a full-blown spa pool (and comes in<br />
at roughly half the price). Return from the<br />
beach or mountain biking to a ready-drawn<br />
steaming bath, complete with massaging<br />
jet. The stainless-steel interior is low<br />
maintenance and you can soak chemical-free<br />
by using Simple Silver to kill any bugs.
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