Get The Look - Garden Bench Dining

Photo Inspiration - Apartment Therapy

I was taken by the simplicity of this outdoor dining room and the creative use of garden benches as dining seating. Get the Look!

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2011 Staff Picks - Favorite Product Artificial Turf

Artificial Turf

With no exaggeration we can say that we love what we do and that we love every product we carry.  So, it is hard to play favorites when it comes to product.

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2011 Gift Guide - The Gift of the Elusive Perfect Lawn

Artificial Grass

For many the dream of all dreams is to achieve a luxurious, dark green, healthy, weed free lawn that always looks freshly mowed.  If you have that person on your gift list, then you can in fact give them the sun and the moon and the perfect lawn too! This artificial grass is so remarkably life like in look and feel but without the harsh realities of a real lawn.

Design 101 - Holiday Decorating with Dressed Up Planters

Deborah Silver and Co.

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Design 101 - Cozy Covered Terrace

Desire to Inspire

The covered terrace, in my mind, is yet another distinction in outdoor spaces.  Elevated but not a balcony as it does not project from the wall of the house or building.  Open on more sides than a loggia but not a porch as they have no outside access.  A terrace is a platform extending from the floor of a house or building and it is often not covered but this week I sought out the comfort of covered terraces.

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Design 101 - Fall Color Palette in Orange

Rove Studio via Etsy

Annette Joseph, Stylist

Trends - We Dream of Artificial Succulents

Eckersley Garden Architecture

Succulents basically take care of themselves so it isn't as if you really need to have them in artificial form but for those of us who live in areas that suffer winter kill in our gardens wintering over succulents can be tricky.

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Trends - Our Outdoor Living Wish List for 2012

Since starting HomeInfatuation.com the outdoor living industry has evolved so fast year to year that the inside joke has been that if we wish it a manufacturer will make it. So needless to say we are big fans of the wish list.  Before heading to the Casual Living Show and starting the new buying season we have a well developed list of wishes.  For 2012 here is my list of outdoor living wishes for HomeInfatuation.com.

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Discover - Balcony Rail Hedges for Privacy

HomeInfatuation.com Artificial Ivy Hedge for Balcony Railings

In the past couple of years we have received several requests from customers wanting to use our ivy or boxwood tiles to cover their outdoor balcony railings to create privacy or block the view of an unappealing landscape in the distance.

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Discover - Artificial Turf

Every spring when I am lugging home bags of lawn fertilizer and weed killer, I daydream of creating a perfect lawn that has no weeds and a perfect dark green color. That is why I made it my buying quest last year to find the most realistic, easiest to purchase and install artifical turf I could find.  My buying search came to an end when I found AGL Grass.  This year I know I can have the perfect lawn with this artificial turf.

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