HIDDEN DELIGHT

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Give an outdoor cabinet a colour burst with burnt orange exterior paint. Kolbjorn cabinet in Beige, $110, ikea.com.au.

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Ideal for all thumbs is the easy-install Wally Gro Eco Planters vertical garden system (wallygro. com). To avoid warping the fence, aach horizontal boards to the posts, secure brackets evenly along boards, then hook each planter on a bracket. Simple! Four rows of eight planters were used here.

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Re-imagine your front yard to create a new low-maintenance hangout spot with a lush view that oers privacy from passersby.

• Erect a sturdy timber fence, painting or staining it either a dark charcoal or brown.

• Save oodles on tiling or decking with a layer of crushed stone set over a weed mat.

• Fix a vertical plant wall system for a feature space teeming with cordylines, ferns and orange-and-yellow crotons. Alternate cascading plants with those that grow upward.

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The ordinary street view of this house belies the mini oasis flourishing behind the fence. Its front yard makeover also offers a valuable lesson to homes with large windows that don’t offer privacy.

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Choose mix-and-match porcelain tiles of a size to fit your tabletop so you don’t have to make any cuts. Use geometric grey-and-white paerns to tie in with the basalt crushed or tumbled rock of the patio flooring.