A small balcony can be the best little hideaway as long as it isn't just a forgotten chair and a dead plant or two. Yes even a really tiny outdoor space has the potential to be a refuge from the rest of the house, a place to start and end the day. Jump below for some of our favorites:
1. Sandras Little Balcony Nook
2. Small Balcony Idea: Line it With Fabric
3. A Growing Canopy Balcony
4. A Camouflaged Balcony
5. Tiny Tokyo Garden
6. Before and After: The Potted Balcony
7. MVW's Sunday Morning Balcony
8. Alex and Matt's Outdoor Living Room
9. Karamel's Sunrise Sunset Balcony
10. Robin's Mini Outdoor Balcony
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It's finally starting to cool off here in Dallas (only in the 80s!), and I sat out on my back porch for the first time in a couple months this weekend. The candles I'd left out had melted into blobs and the paint on my brand new chair had bubbled in the western exposure.
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What kind of flowers are those in the flower box of the first picture, the pink ones?
view flyfeetfirst's profile
pink flowers are geraniums
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I find the 5th picture particularly inspiring simply because of the amount of shade. My patio gets nearly no sun, but it needs so much greenery! My apartment is only a few hours' train ride from the Tiny Tokyo Garden; the difference is that I can't read the plant labels. There are a lot of plants I've never seen before in this country; it's nice to see shade plants for which I can look at the garden shops.
view LaurelJRyan's profile
These are huge compared to my sliver of a balcony.
view IpreferAngie's profile
thanks!
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What is the green mesh screen material in picture #4? Any ideas where to purchase it? Very cool!
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Any ideas what kind of flooring that is in picture 4?
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