The balcony transformation that cost under 300 dollars
Four square metres, one weekend and an outdoor room that gets used every night.
The starting point was a concrete slab with a drying rack on it, used roughly twice a year and mostly for storage.
The budget was deliberately tight, and every item had to justify itself against the question of whether it would survive a winter outdoors.
Interlocking deck tiles went down first and did more for the space than anything else, hiding the concrete and warming the whole view.
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