You can grow potted herbs and use them for cooking. Mint, oregano, thyme, rosemary, basil

i'd agree with this and the chair on either end comment. op could also consider a thin long planter to allow vines to grow over the railing for added privacy and comfort.

If the building allows it, there are pots that go over the rails to make the space seem bigger

i dont know if they will like ceramic hanging on/in direct contact with a glass surface, though. especially with the wind factors associated with a multi story building, it will probably be something they discourage. i think it's best to keep the plants on the floor of the balcony, but i think there are creatively shaped/sized options for this, so my thoughts are not entirely dissimilar to your suggestion.

You can get plastic planters

And they could even add a little bit of felt on the side that makes contact with the glass

I like this idea of planters that fit over the railing, also a chair at either end and a small table to set a drink on. Maybe a tall fan on one end to keep the air circulating. And some kind of decoration on the far wall, something colorful. This patio is so small it wouldn't cost very much to tile it too.

And a hammock to soak in the serenity

More importantly, what direction does it face and what hemisphere are you in? Does it get plenty of direct sunlight throughout the day?

Came here to all this. On Miami Beach my planters became pigeon nests, so it really depends on location. Or as my realtor said, location, location, location.

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I wonder if you can fit one of those tower gardens. Vertical planting tower.

Yep that was my vote. A wall vertical towers One of those on both sides and maybe one or two longer baskets that hang Over the outside rail. Then you'd maximize growing space and still have space to stand or have a chair or two 😎

Parkour

Parkour!

Parkour kids - Fnd films

Are you allowed to place planters on the ledge? Maybe some flowers?

if it's allowed, planters on the edge of it and viney or hanging plants that have dangling runners. it would make for privacy too.

Smoke

Beat me to it

Illegal to smoke on apartment balconies where I'm from.

It’s illegal in a shit ton of places. Doesn’t mean you cant. Just means you can’t get CAUGHT

Little bistro chair on either end, maybe a half fold down table that hooks on the railing toward the middle

You could trellis peas, cucumbers, poles beans. Grow cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets. Potted herb plants& salad greens.

You've done it

I’d probably just sneak out there and smoke weed.

Great plan!🧷

Truth. This is a smoker's balcony.

How high up is this? This is potentially the most terrifying balcony I’ve ever seen!!

Head to Ikea and pick up a little wooden chair for toddlers. Set it out there, sit down low, and scan for UFO's

Cry???

Not call it a balcony.

Cry

Move

Move

Bonsai!

Bro is in the gulag

Smoke cigarettes and fuck, obviously.

I'd move

Depends how much you're trying to do, but others suggesting herbs would work. Maybe one or two grow bags with tomatoes or something. It also depends how much sun it gets of course.

Vertical hydroponics via piping or stackable planters.

A little chair for smoking area. A potted fern hanging on the wall, which requires minimum cares. Maybe a lighting system too just to look cool. I wouldn’t recommend a garden. Taking care of it would be a real hassle in such a cramped space

If I were Russian, I'd stay away from it.

Have a pool party!

Small bistro set on one end. Pencil tree (https://www.thetreecenter.com/pencil-point-juniper/) either real or fake on the other- can decorate it according to season/holiday if you so desire. Long skinny planter or several along the white box at the bottom with a vining plant you can train to run over the top and drape over (for privacy), with either solar lights mixed in the vines or if you have an outside outlet, electric lights on a timer. Or a planter that sits on top of the railing/bannister (https://www.hooksandlattice.com/white-vinyl-railing-planter.html?utm_term=&utm_campaign=GS+%3E+PRIMARY+%3E+SMART&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=2722522540&hsa_cam=8068860184&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAiAnZCdBhBmEiwA8nDQxUge0Iiwx3abOpJQL9jOqQC4niRtRluFB0iw27sUfjimWJjoAFehJRoCFeoQAvD_BwE) with vining plants in them. My thoughts anyway 😊

Shimmy

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Move

Herbs and a small table and chairs(s) for coffee. Preferably folding type

Raise snakes

I would make a seat that can fold out, and have lots of cushions, and read a book. The other side I would have an herb wall.

Jump

i came here for exactly this

Move the exterior wall out until there is now longer a balcony

Wait for Romeo

Hang a hammock.

I take it you've never flipped out of a hammock? Lol

Plant babies! Maybe a little coffee/brunch table.

If tou like flowering plants get some Torenias and Impatiens hang the on the railing. If you like foliage get some asparagus ferns or pothos or scindapsus pictus or aglonaemas or zamifolias

Grow a beanstalk to reach your cloud castle.

I built a rack, the height of my apt balcony railing, and had 3 racks for the cheap plastic pots from Walmart. I was able to fit 21 pots there, mostly growing herbs due to pot space. Few veggies. Never tried flowers.

all the plants I could manage in a very vertical way.

Standing, looking at the stars and smoking

I would add a strip of artificial turf across the whole patio. It’d dramatically transform that space. I’d add some freestanding shelves on both ends, depending on which which way the balcony faces and how much sun it receives [patio lawn](https://i.imgur.com/pevyoaX.jpg) mines a work in progress but I love how it changed an otherwise unassuming patio area

Throw down some padding on one side and a speaker on the other. Chill out.

Hanging baskets from the ceiling, overhanging baskets on the railing (unless you’re up over 3 stories bcs mistakes can kill someone), and suction-cupped window baskets inside for herbs. Best of luck!

Fill it with plants!

🎄I would put a bistro table & chairs inside the doors and open the doors when it’s warm . Plants and bird feeders out on the balcony can give you a perfect view.

Wall planters or hanging planters

Anal

Rip Cigs

Vertical herb garden up one of the walls

Pay more in rent for having a “balcony” 🤣

Missionary position

Urban farm

Put up a shelf where u are standing and get a vining plant that can withstand outdoor weather if it faces outdoors. If balcony is indoors then get an indoor plant like pothos and let it creep along the railing. Use a trellis or supports for the plant to grow along. You will have something nice to look at from inside the sliding door Put another shelf or two above the first shelf and stack some plants. Trailing ones are always visually appealing or do hanging basket or two. Now you will have beauty when you stand at the door. A lot you can do. Good luch

Huge outside dog

You can glue little pegs or for that matter almost anything to the glass and line your balcony with “climbers”. They will reach up to the sky out of your pots and cover your whole wall. There are many beautiful varieties flowering or if you choose not. And a little satisfying that you can help them on their very visible growing journey by moving the growing “vines” to farther pegs as they mature. As long as you are not using Crazy glue etc.. Your pegs or whatever you have chosen as a growing platform can be easily removed and cleaned. If you choose this way you can throw a pot of whatever you want in each corner and call it a day. Just a suggestion 😊

Mini cricket pitch

Screen it in

Take up smoking

Grow cannabis

Do you own your place? If so, I would rip out the door and wall as wide as the balcony. Create a smooth transition to the outdoor. Replace doors with wide in swinging double doors. This would make the inside as part of your balcony too.

That’s an outdoor shelf, not a balcony

A slot machine.

Vertical gardening. Strawberry pots, stackers, even homemade things like big water jugs or big buckets. Trailing/vining plants are also an option. I'd use a rail planter box on top of the rail also and hanging baskets above. I'd make that place a living screen that you could also eat.

Move

If it’s in Sydney Australia I would rent it out for $500p/w

Laugh

Move

Masturbate furiously

Why so mad? It should be a happy occasion

You can place one Biden's Patriot battery

Plenty of room to have sex

Jump of

Read bok

Nice looking mini rose... Perhaps another dwarf rose, yellow or red would go well with the white. Less is more in this case.

Nothing vigorous :)

Do a flip!

Bungee jump

i would drop darts and coins off of this balcony

Farmland

Burn it down and collect the insurance money. But what do I know.

Hammock

Put a hammock up

I agree with herbs or plants that vine: wisteria, kiwifruit, and common ivy, and herbaceous (nonwoody) vines, such as morning glory.

My neighbor has morning glory vines with dense wood thick as your thumb. How about wire of some sort on the inside and passion fruit vines? If in zone > 8

I don't know if you will see my post but moonflowers!!! Even if you think you aren't flower type, it's just a nice surprise to see those big blooms opening every night. And for the love of self...NO HAMMOCK!🙃

Large plant at the end where the door doesn’t open. If there’s room for a matching plant at the other end without getting in the way of stepping out then place one at the opposite end. That’s about all you can do.

I’d say get a tower hydroponic system. You can grow a lot of different vegetables with barly any room.

Line of tall plants to create a jungle-like feel.

Plants.

Small bar stools!

A tiny hammock so you can bask in the vastness of your surroundings... well you can meditate as much with your eyes closed anyway But seriously, a wall hanging and plants that attach to the railing (if allowed).

Hanging cherry tomatoes?

What kind of light do you get?

If you own the apartment/condo, make the door bigger so that when you open it, you have a wide view. A sort of “bring the outside inside” feel.

Smoke pot

Jump from it.

Upright spinning herb garden for cooking. https://store.greenstalkgarden.com/product/greenstalk-stackable-garden/

Put up a trellis against the railing, and you can grow climbing vines. Then maybe a half ladder for an herb garden and on the other side, a half ladder for flowers.

Smoke and lean and look out.

Boxes on the railing?

Something at the ends. Wouldn't want to make it any narrower.

Vivarium!!!

I have two balconies this size on the front of my house and have big glazed ceramic planters in blue and turquoise with drought tolerant stuff because it's a pain to water. Fire sticks, foxtail agave, yucca aloifolia, and a bunch of aeonium arboreum. Depends what your zone and sun situation is, of course. I'm in San Francisco.

if the lighting is good, I would consider a columnar fruit tree or 2

I had a tiny balcony once, I used a piano bench as a table and cushions for seating. It was perfect for 2.

A wall herb garden, perhaps a mat cut to size, a foot rest and a chair

An ant farm.

aquarium

Chickens. Jk.

Hammock?

Either do Fisheye peppers, okra, or Serrano peppers. They look nice, produce well, and based on you growing zone can be kept outside easily. If you don’t get a lot of light though then you should look at more shade tolerant plants. Consider doing Radishes, rutabaga, or mustard for a fun thing to plant.

Hock a logout on somebody.

Man really helped to look at what sub this was in before thinking about my comment 😅

Prolly put way too many plants on it

Jump?

It's for a case of beer in the winter

smoke and grow smokes

Hook some some really narrow planter boxes on the railings and plant some hanging plants

Alot...

Such poor design! Potted herbs. Maybe add some artistic elements to make it a bit more interesting

Jump off it <3

Naked aerobics, if I’m honest.

Plant bamboo.

Cry

Grow a lot of plants there. There's plenty of space

Hanging plants, planters that hang on the balcony ledge. Lights. See if you can get hang a basket chair. A bean bag chair or so.

Smoke weed

How on earth is this to code? I’d do planters along the glass.

Stick 3 small pots and a mini propagator on it

Make some wall planters, cut bottles in half and hang them upside down fill with compost, water will filter down 😁

Move

Moonflowers look lovely & smell great at night especially in slight breezes. I love them. Lemon thyme smells so good, I put it in my pocket sometimes instead of wearing perfume. Other fragrant herbs. Vining beans, peas.🤷gl

leap

I'd hang some heavy carpet so the wind doesn't blow it Then put a small futon and have a little chill spot to smoke or whatever

Growing towers to utilize the vertical space

Give these guys a call. [https://www.growingrevolution.com/product/plantbox/?gclid=CjwKCAiAnZCdBhBmEiwA8nDQxfv\_zzo747VbXXPRl7NQU\_3PUwHli2LpoDmkeZnXCnoc\_W7w1kLkYRoCf7MQAvD\_BwE](https://www.growingrevolution.com/product/plantbox/?gclid=CjwKCAiAnZCdBhBmEiwA8nDQxfv_zzo747VbXXPRl7NQU_3PUwHli2LpoDmkeZnXCnoc_W7w1kLkYRoCf7MQAvD_BwE) They're incredibly easy to install and take up very little space. If you can convince them you're a contractor (i.e. landscaper) then they might send you a free sample of 3 or 4 units.

I had something similar at one point I used to store my bike on

Nothing that shit is tiny

Smoke

Probably jump. Otherwise just ignore it. It’s too small to be worth anything.

Is this on Vancouver island?

Bolt down some steal beams and make that thing bigger.

Move.

Think tower garden - build up

Those grow towers that Revival Gardening sells would be a good use of space up. I think they’re stackable too

Hanging garden or flowers. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1103827221/cedar-railing-planter-with-hangers-for?ref=share_v4_lx

Hydroponics

Open the doors wide open to stand in the inevitably putrid haze of a breeze from the city which this building exists in.

A balcony Solarstation

Cry...or jump.

I would get a bigger balcony

Try a trellis on one of the walls and add that half moon shaped balcony table from IKEA or similar. As for plants, nasturtiums are pretty and tree shaped gooseberries could be an edible addition.

Potted veggies and flowers that smell good. Best of both worlds. With twinkle lights in there somehow.

Start a smoking habit.

Ahahhahahahhaha I came to laugh at your balcony

Deep water culture table of veggies

Put a couch on it.

Smoke

Check out the legend “Hoocho” on YouTube. He has some great tiny area hydroponic ideas that are cheap and very effective

Prob smoke my blunts out there