Sometimes you only need one picture like the picture below and a home like
this to start dreaming of your own white patio even if your own home is way smaller and your garden is just a little frontgarden. After all it is not about having the biggest home or garden, although I would love to live in a
place like this but it is what you do with the space you have and if it makes you happy.
After seeing the picture, time passed and I have been thinking a lot about tiles and fences, the stone wall as in the picture is not really something I could do and for some time I have been switching from black tiles, to grey and back to white again. Something I have learned over the years from transforming my home though is that in my case, my first idea is always best.
Just in time for summer we finished laying tiles, more about that soon, and now the fun part can start. I am looking for pots and plants and of course some furniture. I remember my former home where we had a huge garden and practically lived outdoors all summer and started the day with breakfast outside. The one I am working on right now is more a patio, don’t you just love that word! then a real garden but I will definitely add a table.
Choices… choices and a wish list
I already bought an IKEA Viktigt couch and will only need a small table and some chairs to have coffee in the morning and maybe work on, and a lazy chair to catch some sunshine would be nice too. I decided to go for all black furniture and play with accessories later on. There are so many choices and I love to show you my wish list with the many beautiful things I came across. Let’s start with the image above, on top the low String chair from the always beautiful Menu, the small round table is by Italian Kristalia and not available yet. The hee dining chair we all know I guess. The planter is by Ferm Living, it would look good with some cacti and succulents and easy to bring inside for winter.
More on my wish list from top left… the beautiful Piknik lamp from
LZF Lamps discovered in Spain last year. The Menu candle holders can be used on a piece of wood and are on my wishlist ever since I saw them during our dinner with Menu at
Host in Copenhagen. Next to the candlesticks, the concrete seat and black steal
Formitable table from Fatboy probably the best and most affordable option at the moment.
The square table is by Hay, beautiful as well but I really have a round table on my mind. In ceramic and black steal comes the Botanique flower pot by
Bolia. The black chair is from Spanish
Actiu, they sent it to me last year as a gift after visiting them in the south of Spain during our Sunny design tour, they are really comfortable and I use them in my kitchen at the moment, I can easily see them on the terrace for summer though!
Another beauty is table Yop by
Arper, really new and elegant but not available yet, they have a new website where you can find more garden furniture next to their regular furniture line. Last but not least, the very first table I came across and still one of my favourites, the Miura table table by Italian
Plank and once we are talking saving up a bit first why not dream of the
VIPP daybed or buying a new hammock. For the Dutch among us wil je ook een fijne
hangmat kopen kijk dan eens bij ‘De Hangmat’. Is there anything you would like for your outdoor area, or do you have any good recommendations?
Picture 2 by Richard Powers | 4 Arper | 5 Plank | 6 Vipp
Written in Collaboration with Tropilex
