HOME EDITION
BLUR THE LINES Create a flawless transition between your interior and exterior with Stone & Ceramic Warehouse (above), or add a feature with Bert & May’s tiling (right). Small and Green (bottom) will help you bring the outside in
Having them inside helps bring the outside in, creating a green and calming oasis in our homes. Caring for them can also be rewarding – watching them grow and thrive helps us feel so much happier. Making a regime of regular plant care is just as therapeutic as working in your garden and managing your outside space, something many people living in flats and apartments don’t have access to.” Sometimes, all it takes are a few easy steps to transform your garden from its winter hibernation. Tidying, weeding and decluttering is the first phase, while painting sheds and fences, adding lighting and a few new accessories can elevate a dull space into somewhere special. For major work, like felling or crowning a tree, make sure you call in the experts. Shire Trees is a professional arborist covering Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire that offers a range of tree services. With Morsø’s outdoor heaters, fire pits and ovens, you can up the ante when it comes to summer entertaining. What’s more, its new space-saving stoves are ideal for smaller gardens or terrace areas.
weather dining, but can also help create a seamless indoor-outdoor aesthetic. Jo Oliver, director at the Stone & Ceramic Warehouse, says: “Porcelain tiles are a versatile paving solution. They are available in a range of reproduction finishes, such as wood, decking and stone textures, so you can create the look you want without any of the maintenance issues that the real materials bring. Technological advances have allowed customers to perfectly match their indoor tiles to outdoor paving slabs. This is the ideal way to extend your living space seamlessly into the garden.” Channelling the sun-drenched life enjoyed in Morocco, Bert & May’s zellige tiles are handmade using age-old methods, with no two tiles the same. Available in bright colours – like fennel green, ochre and indigo blue – the raw styles are ideal for steps, alcoves or when making a feature in the corner of a garden. Those living in an apartment or with a small garden need not miss out, says Janet Fox from Cambridgeshire plant shop Small and Green. “Plants are shown to have many benefits for mental and physical wellbeing.
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