Category Archives: Innovative Solutions

Innovative Solutions, Storage Solutions

Umbrella Hooks Are Handy Accessories

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Pole-R Bear Umbrella HooksPole-R Bear Hooks

Umbrellas provide perfect shade pool side, on your porch or patio, or at the beach, but they can offer another benefit with the Pole-R Bear Umbrella Hook: storage space! These hooks are amazing. Lightweight and portable, they can be taken anywhere, including the beach, camp sites, pools, water parks, and tail gating events. They attach to any size umbrella pole and you can place the hooks at any level. The Pole-R Bear’s “claws” will hold items such as cameras, keys, hats, towels, clothes, etc. off of the ground and away from water and dirt/sand. They are American-made stainless steel that will not bend, break, or rust. They are even recommended by BeachHunter.net. These hooks can be the perfect addition to your summer vacations!

Innovative Solutions, Outdoor Entertaining, Outdoor Living Spaces

Half-Canopy Umbrella Makes the Most of Small Spaces

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Small patios and balconies are often seen as one of the downsides of apartment or condo living.  Often, very little space is available for entertaining, and putting out a couple of chairs and a small table is all that most people can manage.  There’s certainly no room for a patio umbrella to keep the sun off while you attempt to dine “al fresco.”  There is room, though, for something called an Off the Wall Umbrella.

An Off the Wall Umbrella is a half-canopy patio umbrella that stands flush against a wall or vertical surface, without fasteners or other attachment hardware required.  This handy umbrella provides shade to small areas where traditional round umbrellas are not practical or even possible.  Unlike fixed awnings over windows or doors, the decorative Off the Wall Umbrella can be moved easily to provide shade and ambience where it’s needed most.

Garden Tools & Tips, Innovative Solutions

Robotic Mowers – Great Grass with Little Effort

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 RoboMower

Are you tired of spending hours in the hot sun cutting your grass? No matter what size yard you have, the sweltering summer temperatures make it almost unbearable to devote enough time to efficiently mow your lawn. The RoboMower Robotic Lawn Mower is the perfect solution. It can be used to give you a perfectly manicured lawn with very little effort and almost no physical labor. All you have to do is push a button and the RoboMower does all the work.

It is run by three battery-powered blades that create a 21 inch cutting path. The grass is cut into small clippings that are buried in the roots of the yard. The clippings eventually decompose and act like natural fertilizer so there is no need to remove the clippings. RoboMower stays in your yard due to a special sensor that recognizes a standard wire that you install around the edge of your yard. Using small pegs every few meters, you create a fence that corrals RoboMower into the desired area. It is fast, easy to use, and effective. You will not go back to manual mowing again!

Innovative Solutions

Rock Enclosures Cover Unsightly Items in Your Yard

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Rock Enclosures

Many people spend lots of money maintaining their yards. It is truly a beautiful sight to see a well-maintained landscape. However, often times septic systems, electrical transformers, pool pumps, and similar eyesores are unavoidable and distract from the beauty of the surroundings. Rock enclosures are an excellent way to deal with this problem! Rock enclosures look like they sound. They are covering devices that enclose unsightly objects in your back yard so that the object blends in naturally with its surroundings. Rock enclosures are made with a textured material called RealRock™. The gritty, tough, and variegated rock-like surface is astonishingly realistic and blends in with other natural textures. Their commercial grade construction stands up to the elements, and since the color and texture are part of the material itself and not painted on, they will maintain their beauty for years to come. They are available in multiple sizes and colors so you can find one to hide almost anything in your backyard! They are especially beautiful around pools, ponds, and other natural looking water features!

Innovative Solutions, Outdoor Living Spaces, Shade Solutions

Side Post Umbrellas Provide Ultimate Shade

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You don’t need a table with a hole in the middle in order to enjoy some shade while you dine.  You don’t even need a table at all.  With a side post umbrella, you can create your own shady zone of comfort no matter where you are in your yard or garden.  A side post umbrella, sometimes known as an offset umbrella, has its pole on the side rather than in the center.  One of the advantages of this is to maximize the amount of shade underneath the umbrella.

Having the pole at the side of the patio umbrella instead of in the center makes it possible to use any type of patio table or dining table, whether it has a center hole or not. You may also choose to forget the table altogether and simply place an arrangement of chairs under the side post umbrella for comfortable afternoon conversations with friends.

Most side post umbrellas tilt and/or rotate up to 360 degrees without ever having to be moved at the base, so you can enjoy the advantage of being completely shaded no matter the time of day.