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Patio, option B, Slatted centre. The long charcoal shiplap planter with a larch rim on a pale grey patio, its middle third a panel of vertical charcoal slats with dark gaps between horizontal boards either side, planted with grasses, lavender, heuchera and white flowers, a brick wall and lawn behind.

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B · Slatted centre

The middle panel of each side becomes 11 vertical slats with dark gaps. The slats sit 6mm proud of the shiplap. This option has the most texture.

The card

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The notes

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The middle panel of each side becomes 11 vertical slats with dark gaps. The slats sit 6mm proud of the shiplap. This option has the most texture.

Materials for this design come to £373.80 before delivery.

The middle panel of each long frame gets a bottom rail 15mm off the ground, which the slats fix into. Every row of shiplap stops at the centre of a mid post, and the 11 slats, 20.5 × 44mm screening battens 660mm long, fill the middle panel with roughly 15mm gaps, each fixed with two stainless screws at the top, middle and bottom rails. Four rows of 681.7mm back boards on the inside face of the mid posts, painted black, close it from behind, and black weed membrane below the floor stops you seeing through the bottom of the slats.

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 B, Slatted centre. The 2000mm long, 703mm high planter with horizontal charcoal shiplap in the outer thirds and eleven vertical slats with dark gaps across the middle third, under the larch cap, with a 15mm shadow gap along the ground. Dimensioned in mm.
01 · Front elevation of option B

The plates

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Patio, option B, Slatted centre. The long charcoal shiplap planter with a larch rim on a pale grey patio, its middle third a panel of vertical charcoal slats with dark gaps between horizontal boards either side, planted with grasses, lavender, heuchera and white flowers, a brick wall and lawn behind.
01 · Patio
Studio, option B, Slatted centre. The planter filled with compost and unplanted on a light grey backdrop, three-quarter from slightly above, with the slatted middle panel between the horizontal boards and the mitred larch rim.
02 · Studio
Detail, option B, Slatted centre. Close up of one top corner: the mitred larch cap over the charcoal shiplap, and the vertical slats of the middle panel meeting the horizontal boards.
03 · Detail
Evening, option B, Slatted centre. The planted planter on a patio at dusk under warm festoon lights, a lit window and brick wall behind, the larch rim glowing above the charcoal boards and the slatted middle panel.
04 · Evening