Patio - recreation area in the country house in Spanish style

The recreation area in the country house can be decorated in Spanish style, for example, with a real patio. This is a small patio with paved floor. They are usually equipped with a barbecue, a barbecue, an arbor, chairs, a sofa or hammocks, green spaces, a fountain, a children's playground, etc. Everything depends on the imagination and the territory that your dacha will be able to allocate for the patio.

First you need to prepare the site. To pave the floor you need open, sunny places. But many people prefer to relax in the shade of trees. In this case, leave space for watering and care of plants.

The paved recreation area at the dacha is not very far from the main house or summer kitchen, so you can connect them with a convenient path. The courtyard should be hidden from extraneous views and cold winds. During paving, a small slope is made in the opposite direction from the house to avoid stagnation of thawed and rainwater.

The choice of material for sex is the main expense in creating a Spanish patio. The classical variant involves a natural stone. But if the area is large, then it is expensive. You can make a "concrete pillow" and lay on it a large stone tile. Ceramic tile is also a good way out. With paving, which does not involve large expenditures, paving slabs, paving blocks, bricks, concrete slabs are also used. Coatings are continuous or with seams, and filled with soil and sown with lawn grass are a romantic option. The recreation area at the cottage can be lined with a board treated with protective impregnations from moisture and temperature. As well as the dipping - a successful imitator of natural wood coating.

At the device of a floor it is necessary to make a drainage - to remove 25 sm of a ground, in a uniform layer to fill up a bottom with a rubble, then sand. The laid out material is jammed. Stitches are filled with sand (soil).

When the recreation area at the dacha acquired a cover, it remains to take care of the canopy, water, lawn, plants. Canopy can not be done over the entire patio. It is quite enough if it will protect from the rain and sun that part in which there is furniture (table, sofa, chairs, etc.).

A conditional decorative pond is very desirable in the patio . If the dimensions allow, it is built into the floor covering, if not - let it be a table or floor made of a large bowl. Harmoniously fit and a small room or street fountains.

The ideal frame for the patio is the lawn. A smooth, monophonic surface will serve as a background on which the beauty of the courtyard will manifest itself even more. Such a lawn is needed from at least one side.

Landscaping yard - a springboard for container floriculture. To do this, you can grow plants specially or take out in the warmth of indoor flowers. It is desirable with the help of lattices to arrange one or two walls of curly and ampel plants on the border of the patio. Green plantations will give the coveted shadow on a hot, sunny day and hide from neighbors.

The patio is ready, and now with a feeling of great satisfaction one can say: "Indeed, my beautiful cottage".