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No. 69 Patios · English Cottage

Small Brick Patio with Stone Fountain

Outside a stone and brick cottage, this small patio features brick paving, a stone fountain, climbing roses along a picket fence, and a metal bistro set surrounded by potted greenery.

Design notes

English cottage design is abundance with a plan. Look for brick, flagstone or gravel paths that give the eye a route, borders packed with roses, foxgloves, lavender, catmint and delphiniums, and a little structure from clipped box, a picket fence or an arbour. Materials are aged — reclaimed brick, painted timber, weathered stone — and there is always somewhere to sit: a bench under a tree, a bistro table by the door.

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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