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Archive for January, 2010

Patio Cool Decking Can Save the Soles of Your Feet

The temperature of your patio or pool deck can have a direct impact on the soles of your feet. The sun can drastically heat up decking causing quite a jolt when you step on it with bare feet. When installing your patio flooring, it is important to note how much sunlight it receives and how hot it feels to the touch.

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A Push Lawn Sweeper Makes Yard Work Easier

Once you get a push lawn sweeper, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it before. Instead of doing back-breaking yard clean-up using a rake, you can efficiently collect leaves faster with a push lawn sweeper. But one of the neatest things about a push lawn sweeper is that it does two jobs in one! It rakes leaves up and deposits them into a bag for you so you just lift off and empty.

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Use Decorative Fencing to Enhance Your Lawn

Want a cute and inexpensive way to decorate your lawn? Use a decorative fence border around the perimeter of your front lawn. Regular fencing can be an expensive home improvement project, especially when you are trying to enclose an enter yard. If that’s not in your budget right now, consider decorative garden fencing.

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Spice Up Your Kitchen with a Patio Herb Garden

If you love to cook, you know jarred herbs are never as good as fresh herbs. The ability to cook with fresh herbs provides so much more flavor to your food. Planting a patio herb garden can be the perfect solution to ensuring you have your most favorite herbs right at your fingertips.

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Patio Canopies Provide Shade and Style

Providing shade to our patios might require a bit more than a patio umbrella. Patio canopies can provide shading for a larger area to ensure we have enough room to relax out of the direct sunlight.

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Portable Fire Pits are a Convenient Way to Stay Warm Outdoors

Patio heaters and fire pits are a great way to stay warm when outside on those chilly days or nights. But they are heavy and usually where you place your patio heater or fire pit is where it stays until you decide to move it.

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