Colors & Plants Element beautify Carport
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Making the carport as a center point home is not impossible. You can beautify with striking colors and even plants.
Today, carport not only as a place to keep the car, carport can even be used as accents and center point also to view outdoors. Forms an attractive carport did not have to be complicated designs, pretty simple design but tricked by placing a unique and accent colors will be seen differently.
Although its design is quite simple, namely that part of the roof consisted of wooden latticework and is arranged transversely to each other so it does not fully covered by wood, sunlight can still enter through a layer of translucent polycarbonate roof. However, because the location unusual and harmonious with the building, carport looks unique.
Carport size 8×8 m wide enough to accommodate two vehicles. Floor material chosen is acian cement and coral so impressed with the natural and harmonious design of the building as a whole, saw only a wooden roof. The selected design is simple and minimalist, so adjusted for the overall building design.
Carport itself is divided into two, there is a roof covered with wooden pergola and some are left open. design is simple, the front supported by two concrete blocks and wooden roof arranged crosswise. Carport floor consisting of a gray ceramic so that the wooden frames and walls of the brown facade remains dominant. However, the gray look more hard and firm. While purple to give the impression cheerful and unique.
Want to add plants in the carport? Sure you can. In addition to aesthetic value as an addition, rigid and monotonous impression of the carport was refined by the presence of plants or grass.
Such as bamboo walls with neighbors, as well as vines. Yellow Bamboo refining firm and monotonous impression on the wall along the 7 m and allowed to grow naturally without special arrangement. Maintenance was not difficult as long as bamboo get full sun and pruning can be done on a regular basis 1-3 months.
Other plant species that serves as a fence or barrier is the kind of princess or tail palm squirrels and pine plantations. For climbing plants flowering as a shade carport more choice. Among others, Passiflora, Alamanda, thunbergia, mandevilla, etc..
What’s important this plant is resistant to full sunlight. The surplus, too easy maintenance and easy to grow. Fertilization can be done two months with NPK and new pruning done when the plants are very dense or out of the propagation path.
With the existence of plants on the pergola roof of the car that are not directly beneath the sun, besides aesthetic value, functional value was reached. The bottom line is cut regularly so as not to give a dark impression on the carport roof construction let alone to destroy the pergola. If you want to put plants in pots, just save it in the corners of the carport. Matches are ornamental plants that are resistant to heat, such as yellow palm.
Greening function can still be achieved although aesthetically not maximal, provided that the types of plants can be selected that matched well with the overall concept of home design. Additional elements of crop and the accent color will give the impression of a unique and unusual, so the simplest model to be different because the homeowner’s favorite choice of color, any green plant that adds value and beauty of the carport as a whole facade of the house.
How? Have imagined going to decorate with plants and carport favorite color? Please add a unique touch to your home carport in order to appear different.
