Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, this manual takes you through all the traditional home decorating elements, showing how these same principles can be applied to the outside space. It features ideas that do not demand expert plant knowledge or hours of toil to keep a garden or courtyard looking good. There are treatments for outside floors, from a guide to creating unusual ground surfaces to step-by-step projects for a pebble rug and an alpine wheel. The author suggests decorative paint and plaster effects for walls and fences; ways to introduce trellises and other fixtures into the garden; decorative effects for window boxes and baskets; and ways to display plants and flowers. There are also ideas for furniture treatments and other outdoor accessories - from gilded candle pots to hanging wire hearts.