Garden Fences, Furniture & Fixtures

[Kimby]

(Someone please tell me if there is already a thread for this, and I will move these pictures to it.)

This is the garden fence at the home/studio of an artist I visited recently. It's made of lodgepole pine driftwood collected from the shores of Flathead Lake:



The gates are especially nice:

[fumobici]

I'm digging it (and so too seems to be the Robin in pic #1.)

[spindrift]

Oh, I really like the overall effect, Kimby....so artistic, something different.

[bixaorellana]

I thought I'd responded to this -- sorry!

That's absolutely beautiful, Kimby. In a strange way, it reminds me of ornamental wrought iron around plots in old graveyards. It doesn't seem morbid, more of a salute to the local terrain and its earliest inhabitants.

That glimpse of the mountains in the last picture is wonderful.

Here is my favorite piece of garden "furniture". It's a double-
woven hammock from the Yucatán. The turquoise effect is
because one set of thread is royal blue, the other kelly green.

[Deleted]

I love your "hang out" Bixa!! What is your view of from there?
I just recently re hung my beautiful Yucatacen hammock in the shade outback next to the pond.
(And I am being hypervigilant about bringing it in after use and not let it succumb to dry rot like I have to a couple of in the past. ).
It's the perfect place for it. I can see no one and no one can see me.

[bixaorellana]

Yes, that's how it should be with a hammock -- a true retreat. Mine is actually visible if someone were to come up to the porch, but since no one can casually enter the property, that's unlikely to happen.

I don't want to de-rail the thread, but I guess it's okay to show this picture, as it does have furniture in it. This was taken shortly after I moved in, so stuff is in disarray. I generally recline in the hammock with the crown of my head towards the porch gate. You can see the hammock hook in the picture. Also, that clump of potted plants on the extreme left is where the bird baths are now, so I can peep at the birds while in the hammock.

[Jazz]

Kimby, the garden gate is beautiful, a work of art! Here, you pay a fortune for furniture etc made from twigs.

Aside from the seductive hammock Bixa, your terrace is lovely and huge!

[bixaorellana]

Thanks, Jazz. Your comment prompted me to finally go out & measure it -- something I've been meaning to do since I move in over a year ago. I always figured the porch was about equal in depth to the house, & was close. The porch is 18 1/2 feet deep, the house 20 1/2. They are the same width, @29'

[Jazz]

If it was my home, this huge patio/porch would become an outdoor living, reading, writing, computer room, and a dining area. With a barbeque ‘kitchen’. I concede to going inside to sleep, using the kitchen when needed and avoiding hurricanes. Where I live, this would only work for 2 or 3 months, but there it would be year round. For very late nights, I imagine Chinese lanterns or the lanterns of the region. Lovely!

[bixaorellana]

Thanks so much, Jazz. To degree, it is all of those things. The first photo was taken from my computer chair, as the computer is placed to take advantage of that window. I don't have a laptop, and because the roof of the porch is so high and the house itself is on a rise, rain can blow in dramatically. So, no electronics living outside. I have slept out there on hot nights, which is delightful.

[Deleted]

Oh,you can see the mountains,how lovely!! Do you have a problem with you know,bugs...? Probably not that high up there,eh? I don't remember seeing a bug while in Oaxaca.
Were it not for the mozzies,I'd sleep on the balcony here in a heartbeat.

[bixaorellana]

Yes mountains all around -- wonderful views here. Many, maybe most of the pictures I've posted in Clouds were taken from the road in front of my house. This is the view from the right-hand side of the porch in the photo in #5:


There are bugs, too, unfortunately. It's not bad at night outside with the lights out, though, as because of the altitude the temperature drops every night.

This is such a nice subject that Kimby opened. I'd love to see more fences, balconies, seating areas, etc.

[cigalechanta]

reminds me of this woman who lives in the Carmargue in Provence who makes beautiful driftwood furniture and other things,

[cigalechanta]

p.s I wish he hadn't painted it white. Driftwood is beautiful as is!

[bixaorellana]

~ ? ~
That driftwood looks naturally bleached to me, not white.

[Kimby]

I thought perhaps ciga was referring to the furniture in #12.

The driftwood garden fence is naturally silvered pine trunks that washed up on the lake shore.

[Kimby]

In my cousin's garden in Michigan: