Photo credit: Baltimore Sun
We are looking for Baltimore area designers -- and homeowners -- who have found a way to furnish a deck or patio without breaking the bank!
What kinds of furniture best withstands the elements? What kinds of fabrics?
Any inexpensive touches that make your porch or patio distinctive?
And where did you shop? What did you splurge on? What did you skimp on?
Email us at susan.reimer@baltsun.com and let us know!!!!
Take a video tour of the Baltimore Symphony Associates designer show house, Woodholme, in Pikesville and listen to the designers talk about the challenges they faced - and their advice to us regular homeowners. The house opens to the public on Saturday and will be open for three weeks.
Photo credits: Baltimore Sun/Colby Ware
In today's Baltimore Sun, I preview the Baltimore Symphony Associates Designer Show House, Woodholme, in Pikesville, which opens Saturday for three weeks.
The design challenge for Katherine Adams of Honey Bee Hollow was to create a garden around a patio that drops a step down with no notice.
That’s not safe when you are expecting thousands of guests, as they are at the show house over the next three weeks.
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety. 
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