The interior of your household and your garden seem to be very disparate places. There’s a reason you don’t plant vegetables in your bathroom, or why you don’t sleep on the grass each night, after all!
That being said, if you’ve become fairy well-versed in designing your interior, could those skills be applied to refining your garden space, too? We believe they can be, but of course, certain adjustments have to be made. While you can implement outdoor lighting for further illumination, specifically at night, you have little say over where the sun hits or the Earth’s rotation, and it’s not as if you can manipulate that natural light around a garden so easily.
Moreover, a garden is a living thing. It requires general upkeep to remain healthy, but nature is the true artist here. For this reason, it’s important to hold a healthy respect for your garden space before you get started.
With some of the following tidbits of advice, you’re sure to find a worthwhile middle ground:
Color Arrangements
Colors in the garden are just as important as inside your living room, bedroom, or kitchen area. It’s wise to take the time time to thoughtfully plan which bold flower hues complement each other nicely or which contrasting shades add that visual pop you’re looking for. Maybe a corner is filled with a vibrant, mixed planting that immediately draws the eye and can guide someone to the natural footpath. From there, surrounding beds might feature more soft, pastel blooms that allow the garden to feel less “busy” in terms of design. Colors are more than just colors, after all, but mood.
Furnishings & Navigability
Your outdoor furniture and walkway placement really shape how that garden space gets moved through, worked around, and hosted in. Where a bench gets situated will highlight certain views for sitting back and admiring the space, while, the winding or straight routes those pathways take guide someone’s stroll from one distinct planting zone to the next. It’s why sometimes, the logic between interior and garden align, because how you design a space ultimately determines how that space is used. Moreover, no garden is a “blank slate,” and most would agree no home is either. For this reason, limitations can inspire your creativity if considered well.
Preparing The Stage
Before ever thinking about decorative touches, the essential first step is enriching that soil to give your plants their best foundation. Lush, thriving greenery is really the basis for the options you have in the garden, even if it takes a little time for that to show up.
All those accessory pieces like water features, statues, or birdbaths simply serve to amplify and put the spotlight on mother nature, even if the yard areas is small. Nourishing the ground and letting plants establish themselves according to their needs provides a wonderful base to the garden that refines your creative output in the best way. You might co-design with someone in a household, but doing so with mother nature is quite the step up indeed.
