This is about expanding your living area, creating usable outdoor spaces that are comfortable, practical and enhance your lifestyle. It is also about blurring the lines between inside and out so that when you are inside you stay connected with the outside spaces.

These days more and more people are needing their homes to be a refuge, so it makes sense to bring the soothing aspects of nature inside. This can be achieved through the use of large windows featuring garden scenes, using natural colors and textures and also adding some outdoor furniture and accessories.

In making outdoor spaces more practical and attractive, creating places that you want to lounge and linger in, reducing the bug element is increasingly important. We have found the Bug Eater very effective for mosquitoes and moths. If you have waterwell pots it is advisable to add a little citronella oil in the base. Citronella candles add atmosphere at night. If you have ponds or water features make sure that you add some fish to control the mosquitoes. It is possible to get small Australian native fish that won't eat the tadpoles so your garden will help sustain the diminishing frog population.