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A Patio or a Balcony ? Which one is good

Before I love and plan to make a good balcony in my new home but now my plan to hang in a patio or courtyard
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chilloutab2 · 41-45, M
A balcony is good if you're living in a high-rise and have a great view.

A patio is good if you're living in a bungalow or single level home with a nice green courtyard/lawn/garden to look out on.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@chilloutab2 Plenty of two-storey (and higher) homes have patios, but some people go far too far and instead of making a small yard overlooking a garden, turn the whole garden into a paved yard, or covered in timber treacherously slippery when wet, perhaps dotted with one or two token, potted plants!

When such homes are sold, the estate-agents use lame phrases like "low-maintenance garden". Be honest: the area is a yard, not a garden.

My parents' near neighbours were like that. They built strange, totally needless extensions to the house then covering most of the garden with a plastic "garden room" surrounded by concrete paving slabs. It may well knock many thousands of pounds off the home's sale value.