by Chris on June 24, 2010
The Outdoor Sun Shade is not merely a decorative device. It is of practical as well aa esthetic value, often serving as a modified outdoor living-room.
One of the important services the sun shade performs is to establish a definite connection, both literally and figuratively, between two distinct features of your garden.
Frequently it leads off into the lawn and sometimes to the garage, or terminates at a pond or miniature garden. At other times it will serve as a bridge, with columns at either end, in this way spanning an otherwise open ravine and adding to the architectural effects of the home. In country homes it has a special place, because of the expanse that many of the country abodes possess, thereby making its necessity more keenly felt.
Outdoor sun shades possesses useful features in addition to its attraction as an ornament, and, wherever erected, increases the charm of the setting. It serves as a bower, a retreat and a nook.
Thus we see that the sun shade is in reality a useful ornament, and one that is finding more general favor as home-builders come to realize its need. The variety of materials with which it is built and the effects of the different types of architectural variations are widespread.
Its very popularity has been the fundamental reason why there are to-day a larger number of the structural materials used in its manufacture.
by Chris on June 23, 2010
A rapidly increasing taste for the attractive shade structures of old-world, outdoor life in sunny countries where much of the time is spent outside the dwelling, and the introduction of the ” Italian garden ” idea, have given shade structures a popularity that rivals the “old shade tree”.
Ornamental structures over which vines are to be trained loosely with a view to tempering the sunshine rather than excluding it are popular.
The framework of a any shade structure, in general, is considered secondary to the effect produced by it when the vines we plant about it are covering the entire structure.
Shades and shaded areas brings the attractive features of out-door life to the house, thus combining out- and in-door life more intimately. A Shade is located attached or near a dwelling, for the purpose of furnishing shade to portions of it not provided with by permanent patio structures.
There are many homes that would be wonderfully improved by the addition of something of this kind, with very little trouble and expense.
In many instances, a shade can be made much more satisfactory than a small attached patio. It can be made larger—roomier, and there will be more of an out-door atmosphere about it because of its airiness, and the play of light and shade through the vines that clamber overhead.
by Chris on June 22, 2010
Few people who pass attractive homes in the suburban districts of our large cities and the outlying country, realize that much of their charm is due to effects which require a comparatively small outlay in dollars and cents.
Good taste, combined with a degree of skill that is within reach of most of us, represent the chief part of the investment. And yet—these little, inexpensive things are the very ones that produce the pleasing effects we are all striving after in our efforts to make home attractive.
Most of them convey an impression of being made for use, not show.
They are in a class with the broad-seated, wide-armed ” old hickory ” rockers with which we make our modern patios comfortable nowadays, and the hammock swung in shady places, where one may lie and forget everything but the fact that it is sometimes a pleasant thing to be lazy—frankly, unblushingly lazy.
It is a healthy indication that in life when so many people use patio sun shades to get all the comfort they can from outdoors in summer.
Every home whose grounds are large enough to accommodate patio sun shades ought to have seating made for comfort, rather than looks that are suggestive of rest and relaxation.
