Turning your terrace, patio or porch into a beautiful, relaxing, and fun place for your family and friends is personally rewarding. A garden décor is great tool that can enhance the aesthetic qualities of your garden or backyard. It’s time to rethink how you can make your backyard or garden the place to spend time alone or with people you love. This article tells you how you can transform an ordinary area into something that will elicit “oohs” and “aahs” even if your budget is tight or have little space.
Garden Decor Ideas
You need to have a theme for your garden’s overall look to make this makeover easier to accomplish. Choose from the garden décor themes listed below based on what you already own. Don’t think your area is too small because even a tiny space can look bigger with a few tricks. And if you think you don’t have enough greenery to make it look like a garden that issue can be remedied, too. All it takes is a little creativity, patience, and some new ideas.
Garden Decor Ideas
Here are 15 of the best outdoor themes you might want to consider:
Stick to a monochromatic theme by giving your garden a fresh, polished look sans the overkill. You might already have essential pieces such as a wide beach or golf umbrella and wirework stools and round table so that’s a plus. Other future accessories will blend right in with a white/gray scheme.
If you have plenty of benches, now is the time to maximize their use. Arrange them with a picnic table to play up a nautical theme such as blue hydrangeas in clear vases and fish motif on placemats and lines. Benches work well outdoors because they have no backs to obstruct the view.
You don’t need a complete makeover if you’re on a tight budget. Weave splashes of fire engine red throughout your space with table linen, planters, red-based table lamps or ceramic vases for centerpiece.
Give outdoor space a tropical twist with colorful accents such as cushions in shades of fuchsia, tangerine, and lemon yellow. Get table linen in stripes, florals, and ikat. Have wide floor mats in hot pink and orange and, if your space has trees, and a draped canopy in a splash of any of those colors for balmy days.
If you love wicker furniture, use it to your advantage and create an intimate and cozy gathering space prepped for some evening entertainment. Add a fire pit, a portable griller, a freestanding umbrella, and you have a barbecue-cum-poolside hang-out, even without the pool!
Do you live in a totally urban place where privacy is an issue? Enclose your small backyard with a wooden fence a foot taller than usual. Get shelves on the wall for outdoor cooking ingredients and condiments and set up essential stone furniture pieces such as stools.
If dining alfresco is your preference, choose furniture that is weather-resistant and a canopied “roof” that has sufficient sun coverage; you can take it down after sunset if you want to dine under the stars. If you plan to have wood furniture, ensure that they have been water-proofed.
How about using that trunk in your attic as a coffee table for your garden, lawn or backyard? Add some Chinese lanterns, a day bed, and some colorful potted plants and you’re all set for lounging in style in your outdoor space. Small crates make good side tables for this lounging area as well.
One of the most important furniture pieces that can make or break your outdoor decoration is the sofa. Choose a unique couch in rattan and transform it into a conversation piece with plush pillows. Hang some festive-looking glass lanterns and throw in a few foot stools in bright-colored slipcovers.
You can convert any garden space into a casual area with smart seating options. If you have a stone backyard, pepper it up with a few wire-work chairs in colors most people would find unconventional for garden furniture: purple, aquamarine, neon green, and sapphire.
No awning in your garden? No problem. Create yours with a simple fabric canopy in beige, camel or tan. The key here is seating options like cushioned benches or stackable stools that your canopy can cover. Create a garden under glass. Of course this setting will make you and guests huddle close, but that’s what it’s all about, right?
You want formality in dining but definitely without the fuss. A reclaimed table in teak with low-backed wicker chairs will keep the setting relaxing. Tabletop décor of lanterns made of chicken wire are not only cheap to buy or make but uniquely “cool.” Use fragrant votives in the lanterns for awesome dining aroma.
Summer may be a long way off but you can make your lawn or patio look like summer with some lively details like bistro-style chairs in hot pink, a freestanding or golf umbrella, paper pom-pom lanterns in summer colors, and a huge jar with a circular wooden top for your dining table.
Having your morning coffee or afternoon lemonade outdoors is perfect when your garden has a “country living” theme. Anything goes, actually, but pieces such as solid back wooden chairs, white lace-edged table linen, and blue flatware and cutlery translate to rustic cottage even when it is set up in a garden.
The avant garde in you can spice up your garden theme with chairs in different designs and colors without looking odd. Just remember to have them all of them in one material like heavy metal, wire work, rattan or wood. Interestingly-shaped chairs are all over flea markets and the internet.
Garden Decor Accents
Giving your garden your own personal touch makes all the difference between an ordinary yard, patio or lawn and a breathtaking spectacle. Take the time to consider what accessories will make your garden a dreamscape. Plants, vegetation, and flowers play a key role in giving your outdoor spot a classy finish.
Garden Decor Accents
Here are ten great garden décors to choose from:
Arbors: add elegance to your patio or garden entrance with an arbor. You may not imagine it now, but garden arbors add some whimsy to any garden. Trailing plants – honeysuckle, grape vines, and roses – can be strategically placed in a garden arbor.
Storage sheds: when you have that sense of style, a storage shed can easily blend with your garden scheme. Create a flagstone path for a potting shed with wide-plank and peeled paint exteriors for rustic charm. Sedum and other green succulents on a shed’s roof keep it cool, bright, and brighten any garden.
Statuary art: find your style and give your garden a sense of artistry with little gnomes, forest animals, and even gods and goddesses. Statuary makes elegant accent pieces and gives your garden a classic touch. Just make sure you don’t go overboard; you want a few pieces, not the whole Mt. Olympus community.
Water fountains or waterfalls: these are typically found indoors but why not think out of the box and give your garden the whole Zen appeal? A water fountain or waterfall makes for an arresting focal point for any garden, including yours. Get one with lights for quiet yet twinkling nights.
Bird feeders and bird baths: the available sizes, colors, and styles of bird feeders and bird baths is seemingly endless. Choose your while from those with planters, in ornate metal, hand-sculpted, in brass finish, tube shape, with pedestals, in marble, and mosaic glass, among other popular choices.
Stone arrangements: although typical of a Zen garden, stones and pebbles can be ideal décor even in an outdoor setting sans the Japanese motif. Lush vegetation and low-lying blooms look easy on the eyes with big and small polished flat stones used as steps.
Container options: get clever with unusual plant containers! Use old porcelain toilet cisterns as planters by concealing their past lives behind bamboo screens or other plants around their bases. Colanders, baby bath tubs, crock pots, children’s wagons, old sinks, and even baby prams make terrific planters.
Gazing balls: these are yet another set of unusual décor items for a unique garden. Gazing balls are multi-seasonal, add sparkle to the conventional greenery of a garden, and become the center of attraction for al fresco dining. Make your own or scour the internet for great deals.
Garden stakes: give your outdoor place some interesting finds like garden stakes that require no other hardware; you just push them right into the ground. Choose from a plethora of lawn art, pathway lights, flags, glass orbs, candle holders, outdoor shadow, weathervanes and metalwork, among other finds.
Go solar: help the environment and save money while you beautify your garden with solar lighting. Garden entertaining has never been more fun or eco-friendly than with solar tabletop lanterns, solar string lights, pathway lights, and garden wall lanterns, and lawn stakes, to name a few.
Outdoor Garden Decor
You can easily have an attractive, affordable outdoor garden on a shoestring budget (unless you want to replicate the one hanging in Babylon!). The key factor is to have outdoor decor that is durable, inexpensive, sleek-looking, and blends well with your general garden motif.
Outdoor Garden Decor
If you are stumped on what to get, here are some ideas for great outdoor ideas using garden decor:
Create a patio in your garden with durable furniture pieces such as tiny chairs and small benches that take up little space. Ditch the idea of a garden resembling that of Eden and “scatter” potted plants in your patio. Have the planters in rich colorful hues to make greenery stand out.
Go for gravel. Crushed limestone is a great substitute for grass. Get privacy with galvanized metal for your fence; it costs practically the same as a wood fence with a distinct advantage: metal will never rot. Provide irrigation with an eco-friendly rainwater collection container to help your garden grow.
Do you want attractive landscaping but don’t want to spend loads of money for it? Create your own! Install a “waterfall” or a water fountain. Better yet, make your own fish pond and populate it with your favorite koi or construct a reflecting pool and surround it with colorful flowers.
Hopefully, these ideas will help you decorate your green garden beautifully or a Micro Garden on the cheap!
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