I am very happy that my apartment has a nice balcony, where you can sit when the weather is warm enough. For me it is an important extension of my home…
It is very nice to have there on a sunny Sunday morning breakfast on the balcony (a good change from breakfast on bed :P). Drink coffee or tea there together. Reading a bit. And of course, enjoying the sun.
Last year I already bought some very comfortable chairs for on the balcony. And this year when I managed to get the mortgage for the apartment, Marion gave me a nice table to add to the chairs.
I like to have plants on my balcony. Plants give a nice atmosphere to it all. But keeping plants on a balcony (specially one with lots of sun) is not the easiest thing to do. After a day with sun, you must water them else they will die very quickly. And not every plants can stand the sun that well. But the effort to keep them well is worth the result.
One thing I still would like to have is “fake grass” on the balcony. Many people around here have this and I must say that looks very nice to me. And it is much more comfortable then the concrete of the balcony itself.
I am growing my own peppers and paprika again. I hope it will be the same success as it was last year, when I could most of the summer my own peppers and paprika’s.
Soon I have will grow some herbs as parsley, thyme and dill again. It is great that when you are cooking and you need some parsley, you just can walk up to your balcony and get some.
Luckily the building where I am living is so located that I have right away the upcoming sun in the morning. In the early evening my balcony gets out of reach of the sun. So I have during the biggest part of the day the sun shinning on my balcony. And after a long sunny day I don’t mind that there is some coolness on my balcony.
Also the building where I live is placed so that the wind mosly blows from the other side of the building then where my balcony is. Which means that my balcony is mostly out of the wind and because of that it
Yes, I am very happy with my balcony…