Monday, January 21, 2013

Courtyard

Bordered by the Laundry and Family room the Courtyard enjoys a sheltered position.

440 x 440 mm sandstone look tiles leftover from our Sitting room create a border and central inset,
surrounded by  red paving bricks . This visually acts as an anchor for the table and chairs.

A faux door crafted by Rod, complete with old key and brick doorway always attracts attention from  visitors seeing the Courtyard for the first time.  Either  side of this door two Lily Pilly's have pride of place. Trained as standard balls from tiny seedlings bought at a fete for 40 cents they have been extremely successful.

The Courtyard occupies an area that was originally a concrete tank stand. Many hours of strenuous work was carried out by hand to remove bedrock which had acted as a solid base for many, many years.

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