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Patio, option C, Shadow line. The long charcoal shiplap planter with a larch rim on a pale grey patio, one deep black band running along its side just below the top, broken by two slim posts, planted with grasses, lavender, heuchera and white flowers, a brick wall and lawn behind.

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C · Shadow line

One row of boards is left out along the full length, leaving a deep black band. It's the quietest look and the cheapest and quickest to build.

The card

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C · Shadow line

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The notes

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One row of boards is left out along the full length, leaving a deep black band. It's the quietest look and the cheapest and quickest to build.

Materials for this design come to £353.20 before delivery.

Row 5 is left out between the corner posts, with a 61.5mm piece over each corner post so the band stops cleanly at each end. One full-length 1951mm back board, painted black, is screwed to the inside face of all four posts on each side, centred behind row 5. It needs fewer frame lengths than the other two, and no extra framing at all.

Everything else is the same in all three: the frame, the floor, the tie rods, the liner, the end boards and the larch cap.

The drawings

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Front elevation of option C, Shadow line. The 2000mm long, 703mm high planter in charcoal shiplap under the larch cap, with the fifth board row left out between the corner posts to make one long black band, the two mid posts just visible in it, and a 15mm shadow gap along the ground. Dimensioned in mm.
01 · Front elevation of option C

The plates

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Patio, option C, Shadow line. The long charcoal shiplap planter with a larch rim on a pale grey patio, one deep black band running along its side just below the top, broken by two slim posts, planted with grasses, lavender, heuchera and white flowers, a brick wall and lawn behind.
01 · Patio
Studio, option C, Shadow line. The planter filled with compost and unplanted on a light grey backdrop, three-quarter from slightly above, with the long black shadow line along the side and the mitred larch rim.
02 · Studio
Detail, option C, Shadow line. Close up of one top corner: the mitred larch cap over the charcoal shiplap, and the end of the black shadow-line slot near the corner.
03 · Detail
Evening, option C, Shadow line. The planted planter on a patio at dusk under warm festoon lights, a lit window behind, the larch rim catching the light above the black boards and the long dark band.
04 · Evening