No. 96 Patios · French Country
Gravel Patio with Limestone Fire Table
Overhead string lights illuminate a gravel patio featuring a limestone fire table and wooden chairs, backed by terraced retaining walls planted with lavender beneath a French country house with blue shutters.
Design notes
French country design pairs formal bones with soft edges. Look for limestone walls and terraces, pea gravel courtyards, an axis or allée of pleached limes or plane trees, and clipped box giving structure to lavender, roses, rosemary and iris. Shutters, wrought-iron furniture, zinc planters and a long table under a tree complete it. Worn surfaces are the point — nothing should look new.
What to look for
- The paving material and how its joints are handled
- Whether the furniture footprint fits with room to move
- Shade at 4 pm, not just at noon
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