The color can pick up on other elements of your home's outdoor facade. Or you may decide you don't want your fence to be a focal point and let it recede into the background.

It's easy to transform neutral outdoor spaces with a little colorful tile and stone.

PEABODY — The Northshore Mall is planning to make outdoor facade improvements to a side of the mall that faces Route 114 in the vicinity of Legal Sea Foods.

Designed by Foster and Partners, the $1 billion “vertical office campus” building’s renderings show lushly landscaped outdoor patios, four per floor, that decorate the glass-lined facade.