Now...I must admit...this might not make most husbands want to take Sunday afternoons off from golfing in order to sit here with the paper....but I will. Give up golf I mean...in order to sit here. I don't even play golf.

Dining al fresco is the cheapest way to get a little French style into your environment. Take advantage of an unseasonably warm day, set out a linen table cloth, and have lunch outside. This may be in California, but it sure feels like France. Next, more photos that bring a little French flair home.

The beauty of nature can help you adorn your home. There is no replacement for a gorgeous tree like the one here, for example. Nature brings peace and calm to our lives. We were made to be in contact with nature all the time. This terrace takes advantage of the surroundings and blends nature in by adding plants to the concrete area, using earthy colors and just making it simple.

French farmhouse. This Northern California setting has a very relaxed, informal French farmhouse feel. Can't you imagine sitting down to a lunch of crusty French rolls and a fresh salad under this shady tree?Create your own French farmhouse–style patio by adding natural wooden furniture with neutral linens and simple white plates. Add finishing touches to your table with a simple vase of wildflowers and a large bowl of oranges or deep purple figs. Grow pots of lavender for a heavenly scent, and add complementary aubergine (deep purple) throw pillows to your seating.

As mentioned, fractal- and acacialike images can be abstract or real, so in the latter case, the selection of new trees and use of existing ones are important. This lovely tree anchors a patio and one corner of a ranch outside San Francisco. The view is tremendous, but the tree helps to shelter and frame it, scaling down the immensity of the sky and focusing attention on the green and the hills beyond.

Live oak thrives and looks best with other California natives and Mediterranean plants, such as manzanita, ceanothus, lavender and rosemary. Pruning out whole branches can control the size a bit, open up a view and neaten up the tree's form.

Open up views. Thoughtful pruning or editing can make room for a beautiful distant scene. Instead of cutting down a large tree that may be obstructing your view, invest in the expertise of a certified arborist who can open up view zones with targeted branch removal, allowing you to enjoy both the tree and the view beyond.Here, the preserved tree is essential to the success of this design. Not only does it protect and shade the outdoor patio space, but it deemphasizes the strong architecture of the home and draws one's eye toward the meadow and hills in the distance. Sublime!

targeted branch removal

Blue Oak

Patio

Chairs

Russia

Olive trees in courtyard with small bistro table or lounge chair

Love the plants and the arrangement. Really works with the CA oak

patio with open yard, edging

Great view of nature

Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?

giant yard

Offset patio

Nice mood

Tree shape

love this tree blue oak

Pleasant courtyard-like area. Looks inexpensive to make.

Patio

Lavender and rocks

lavendar and grasses

Lave star and grasses

Plant divider in roll-off slope

Ahhhhhh

overlooking the Petaluma river through a Blue Oak tree, a small but airy house

Love love love

Ranch idea

open space patio

trimming of tree

Patio

lovely outdoor space

Patio

table area under tree

Outdoor setting with trees

like space defined by tree and plantings - intimate although very open

I recall the smell , feeling and sounds of this scene many years ago!!

Calming

Tree and border plants

open exposed corner patio with possible tree frame

french patio look

Vase of flowers

side patio by small shed

flowers

Planted fall away

pruned tree

nice tree

Yes

Open up views. Thoughtful pruning or editing can make room for a beautiful distant scene. Instead of cutting down a large tree that may be obstructing your view, invest in the expertise of a certified arborist who can open up view zones with targeted branch removal, allowing you to enjoy both the tree and the view beyond. Here, the preserved tree is essential to the success of this design. Not only does it protect and shade the outdoor patio space, but it deemphasizes the strong architecture of the home and draws one's eye toward the meadow and hills in the distance. Sublime!

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Frame the landscape

tree framed space

This is pretty close to my idea for our yard.

simple with dirt ground

Completely casual but beautiful. No fuss, no muss, just letting elements speak for themselves.

Tree

Endlessly country!

Shaded with a view.

Open up views. Thoughtful pruning or editing can make room for a beautiful distant scene. Instead of cutting down a large tree that may be obstructing your view, invest in the expertise of a certified arborist who can open up view zones with targeted branch removal, allowing you to enjoy both the tree and the view beyond.

seated vista

Tree

Stunning gardens!

rachael

Tree

nothing like a breath of fresh air

view framing with trees

It is the most pleasant view I have ever seen, I could have my coffee there forever, and enjoy every drop.

Open up views. Thoughtful pruning or editing can make room for a beautiful distant scene. Instead of cutting down a large tree that may be obstructing your view, invest in the expertise of a certified arborist who can open up view zones with targeted branch removal, allowing you to enjoy both the tree and the view beyond. Here, the preserved tree is essential to the success of this design. Not only does it protect and shade the outdoor patio space, but it deemphasizes the strong architecture of the home and draws one's eye toward the meadow and hills in the distance. Sublime!

Simplicity

Everything!

desert scape

Patio

Open up views. Thoughtful pruning or editing can make room for a beautiful distant scene. Instead of cutting down a large tree that may be obstructing your view, invest in the expertise of a certified arborist who can open up view zones with targeted branch removal, allowing you to enjoy both the tree and the view beyond. Here, the preserved tree is essential to the success of this design. Not only does it protect and shade the outdoor patio space, but it deemphasizes the strong architecture of the home and draws one's eye toward the meadow and hills in the distance. Sublime!

See stone border along decomposed granite

Consider for viewing along woods

Magnificent and so simple

Overall feel

grasses

space

Outdoor dining

Graeser

Edging

Well edited framed view

I want it

omg. This is lovely.

tree and view

Gorgeous!

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Scenery

Looks so relaxing

patio

Planchita abajo

Everything. Outdoor living at it's best with total feeling of space but still cosy.

Space. I think that this photo is a perfect use of space. It shows the exceedingly large view of empty land in the background. The color of white that they use in this photo also gives it the sense of negative space. I also find that the trees complements it well with the use of positive space.

landscape

tonasket must

GARDEN

very med

beautiful

dream life

this type of tree framing the north west corner of patio

garden

well pruned tree for framing a niew

Branches make the difference

beautiful

Frame a Garden View for Intrigue and Abundance

Great view.

outdoor table

Grasses

plants

Patio with Oak

table and chair placement-- perhaps under the tree in the secret garden? paint the pottery barn furniture a bright white.

עץ ליד שולחן. לבנדר וזיו נוצה

Atmosphere of the house and gardens.

Lavender, grass, boulders for use with gravel patio

Backyard- near trees

Grasses and lavender for beach house

Trimmed oak

home w/ a view

Breakfasts at the farm

Idyllic

like simplicity, light colors (won't fade..), DG surface is cheap. It's more about beauty surrounding patio, than patio itself

outside by barn?

country look

tree

landscape

hillside

Tree

tree

Dede's ranch

Espacio

What kind of tree is this? Love the craggy spread

Al fresco!

Dream

Ideas for my Live Oaks

Coast Live Oak #4

Olive tree

eco plants

Very doable

quadro

Un lugar intimo pa desayunar

Patio mon reve

outdoor seating

flowers

farm garden

holidayhome/retirement

Ahhhhhh.

chairs for deck

great breakfast scene

love the feel of this patio

Like the French charm. Chairs, esp.

I could handle this everyday

front landscaping

Patio setting

Beautiful Setting

Mex. feather

like the natural grass/nature around patio

Love the view from the gravel through the plants and the stone edging.

simple and lovely

French Farmhouse feel. Natural wood furniture, neutral linens, wihite plates, orange and purple accents, lavendar for scent.

outdoor-scape

French landscape

Chairs

Frr\ench farmhouse patio - nice!

French farmhouse.

Mesa balcon

patio

plants bordering patio

Backyard

G

border

Patio

French farmhouse. This Northern California setting has a very relaxed, informal French farmhouse feel. Can't you imagine sitting down to a lunch of crusty French rolls and a fresh salad under this shady tree? Create your own French farmhouse–style patio by adding natural wooden furniture with neutral linens and simple white plates. Add finishing touches to your table with a simple vase of wildflowers and a large bowl of oranges or deep purple figs. Grow pots of lavender for a heavenly scent, and add complementary aubergine (deep purple) throw pillows to your seating.

simplicity

Alfresco dining spot

Lovely view

wooden furniture

hungry for breakfast

Inviting

Farm

The remoteness

View

tree

love the patio openness, naturalness, only the tree for shade, the view.

grass for my garden ..low maintenance with lavenders, lilacs ..

i like this tree

We can put this in our front yard.

Courtyard

This terrace can have access frpm mnoth a dining/living area as well as from a master bedroom. The tree provides shade from the Sun, but doesn't inhibit warmth

backyard sitting arrangement for farm

backyard ???

Tree makes it

Outside is open

Texas style - lavendar and grasses