Even the small balcony of the standard apartment can become your favourite vacation spot if intelligently to approach its arrangement. How to decorate balcony, having turned it into the place where it is pleasant to spend warm summer evenings?
Instruction
1. At first properly wash balcony and anew paint balcony grid and windowsill. Put new linoleum or tile on balcony floor. It is also possible to lay floor beautiful inexpensive polovichka or rugs. It must be kept in mind that balcony – the dusty place therefore when choosing polovichok it is necessary to consider that they have to wash or be located easily in the washing machine.
2. The most popular ornament for balconies – flowers. They can be landed not only in hinged or floor boxes, but also in pots or tubs. Pots can be placed in wattled cachepots or decorative baskets. Use all opportunities of vertical gardening, suspending cachepot to obstacle of balcony or to house wall. Besides, will not prevent to take out for the summer on balcony houseplants – these will be very useful to them "air bathtubs". If you the bad flower grower, and plants do not grow in your hands (it happens too) – you can use artificial flowers for decoration of balcony, having also suspended them in cachepot or having braided with them obstacle.
3. On the balcony it is possible to put any garden furniture – wooden, plastic or metal. Garden furniture is specially intended to use it in the open air and will not burn out or be deformed. And the folding hood marchioness or big umbrella not only will save your balcony from rain and the direct sun, but also will decorate it. The main thing is to pick up color and form which would be combined with your balcony and furniture and also with house facade.
4. Do not forget also about illumination of balcony – especially if you are going to spend evenings here. It is possible to use garden lamps on solar batteries, having fixed them in boxes with flowers, it is possible to use various candles for lighting. And if to place candles in the high beautiful color glass candlesticks glasses fixed on protection, then they will decorate balcony and by the light of day.
5. It is also possible to use any interior elements for decoration of balcony: to put the room fountainlet, to decorate balcony grid with tapes, to establish children's revolving object or weather vane … Dream, and do not forget only that all objects placed on the balcony have to be resistant to dampness and are rather well fixed – otherwise can carry away them wind gust.