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    How To Create The Perfect Meditation Area In Your Garden

    If you’re looking for a place to relax and perhaps even practice meditation or mindfulness in your home, you might want to consider your garden. With your garden, you can create a beautiful outdoor space that provides a fantastic level of peace and serenity, absolutely perfect for meditation. Let’s explore how to set up this type of area in your garden and make sure you take the right steps to guarantee it’s a fantastic area for your needs.

     

    Imagine Your Perfect Garden

     

    Try to think about what your perfect meditation garden would look like before you begin to create it. Think about the colours, the shades and indeed the materials and items that you want to use. How big does it need to be? Will you share it and use it with other members of your family, or will this personal space just be for you? Remember, there is no set rule book on what a space for meditation should look like so it’s worth

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    Bring Your Garden To Life After Dark

    Have you ever thought about making your garden a nighttime dream? With a few changes and some fantastic features you can make your garden a tremendous place to spend an evening. Build an atmosphere and design the perfect spot for drinks with friends or a beautiful evening in the moonlight with family. Here are some of the best ways to make your garden a gorgeous place to gaze at the stars.

     

    Fire Feature

     

    If you’re looking for a modern option to make your garden look spectacular in the evening, consider a fire feature. A fire feature can be used as an accessory in a seating area or even a centrepiece attraction. Available in all shapes and sizes fire features can suit every type of design choice. Open, spherical fire sculptures are a stunning choice and are certain to impress any guests you have over in the evening.

     

    Lanterns

     

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    Your Garden Is A Great Asset: Use It!

     

    Are you thinking about selling your home? If so, you should definitely consider sprucing up the exterior and in particular focus on your garden. Making changes to your garden, you can alter the perceptive value of your home. This will lead to greater offers from buyers and potentially more interest on the market. As well as this, you’ll be able to send your neighbours green with envy. We have a few ways you can do this that will make your garden look absolutely fantastic and ensure it does impress anyone who comes to view your home.

     

    Keep The Grass Short

     

    This is a simple suggestion but it will certainly pay off. By keeping the grass short, you will make the land around your home look more grand and spacious. Grass that is left to grow over the standard couple of inches creates the wrong impression.

     

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    How To Choose A Water Feature For The Garden

    One of the ways that people relax is in the garden, and adding a water feature to the outdoor space that you have available to you is going to do so much more than that. You can keep cool on hot days, learn to zone out to the sound of the water feature running and bring an atmosphere of tranquillity to the garden. Right now, there are more water features available to choose from than ever before, and that can make it harder to decide which one will be right for you! Do you go for cascades or wall fountains? Bubbling pools or slow streams? The choice is yours!

    Classic Water Fountains

    Some people love to buy into the traditional with their home and garden, and you don't have to spend a fortune on the choice that you make. You could pick a water feature that looks authentic, resembling old terracotta, bronze or lead. Kelkay water features run from classic to contemporary, and there are many products that are there to add

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    Four Reasons To Introduce A Water Feature To Your Garden

    The garden is the one place that you get free rein to be as natural as possible in your decor choices. Sure, you can bring wood into the home, indulge in the modern theme that's pretty popular right now, but decorating in a natural way is beautiful when done in its own setting. Water fountains are a soothing way to have something stand out in your garden as an attractive feature among all the foliage. They're an excellent addition to any garden space - big or small - and you can even go as far to say that you can change the entire ambience of your garden with the right one. Let's check out four reasons why you should add a water feature to your garden.

    Easy Maintenance

    Maintaining your water fountain is easy, but it has to be done regularly to avoid blockages, and if you want to use a water feature like this

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    Why Your Office Needs A Water Feature

    Going to work is stressful for a lot of people - even when they enjoy their jobs. The commute can be crazy busy, the public transport packed to the gills and even if you drive, the traffic can be claustrophobic to sit in for a long time. If you're not a fan of the 9-to-5 routine, then being in the office can send your blood pressure right up and it's more common than you know for people to feel anxious as they make their way across the foyer at work. The addition of Kelkay water features can make all the difference in the way that you feel, which is why we think they could be a fantastic addition to your office. Let's take a look at why.

    Relaxing Is Important.

    Working in a high position in business comes with loaded stress. A significant number of people buy water features to be able to relieve stress. It's an unusual way to help staff relax in the workplace, and this particular

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    Adding A Water Feature To Your Garden

    For some people, a water feature being added to the garden creates a quiet and contemplative space to relax. For others, a water feature is there to mask the noise from the main road that runs by their home. Injecting a little tranquillity to the outdoor space that you have can make a rather significant difference to your quality of life. By adding the right water feature to your garden, you're going to achieve all of that and more - but how do you know what kind of water feature to get? Let's go over your options.

    Pond

    This is the first thing that most people think of when they talk about adding a garden water feature. Given that they can be treated as their own mini-ecosystem these days, they can be a low-maintenance option for a homeowner to choose for their garden. They attract wildlife, and they can be a classy way to jazz up the garden. It can be small, with very few fish, or it can be significant with massive

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    Five Ways To Transform Your Garden In 2019

    If there is one place in the home that people like to upgrade in time for the warmer weather, it's the garden. Going from so-so to sensational doesn't happen overnight, but it is something that you can do to create a fantastic garden before the summer is indeed in full swing. There are plenty of bright ideas out there to help you to transform your garden, and we've put some of those ideas together right here.

    Think Bigger

    It doesn't matter what size your garden currently is, you can instantly make your garden feel more mature and established with a large tree or shrub. Ideally, you should go for the biggest that you can afford for the size of your garden. Wholesale nurseries often offer excellent discounts on shrubbery in full flower.

    Create A Focus

    One of the loveliest way that you can add something sensational to your garden is with Kelkay water

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    5 Top Ways To Add Value To Your Garden

    Before the sale of a house, most homeowners like to do what they can to add as much value as possible to get a more significant price on their home. This happens most of the time through decluttering and adding features to the house to be able to give their buyers more. The one area that is forgotten, though, is the garden. Given that the garden for a property is out the back, homeowners forget that it's not a case of 'out of sight, out of mind.'

     

    Potential buyers - particularly those with families - will always look at the garden as an important part of their choice. Everyone loves to get outside in the sunshine, relax and enjoy themselves, so it's important that you make sure that your garden is as appealing as possible for a potential buyer. Let's take a look at some of the best tips to add value to the outdoor space you are trying to sell.

    Tidy It Up

    Sprucing

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    Six Things To Consider Before Adding A Water Feature To Your Garden

    A water fountain makes for a striking and tranquil addition to a garden, and when you want to make a statement that gives your garden a lush look, a water feature is the way to go.

    Since not all water features will suit your outdoor space, you need to consider a few things when you are thinking about adding a particular water feature to your garden. Here are six of those things to think about.

    Water Feature Types

    You can choose from a range of garden water features, from ponds and streams to Kelkay water features like the Bubbling Trough, which is a modern water feature that looks amazing wherever it is. It's going to depend on whether you want a feature that can make your garden look modern, or you want a classic look with another Kelkay EasyFountain. In each case, you want to keep the water re-circulating properly, and this could include ensuring that you have the right