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Home Decorating for
Patio Rooms
Design your backyard into
several patio rooms - Your porch, swimming
pool, backyard play set, outdoor fireplace and barbecue all
into one landscape design. Get great budget decorating
ideas and online resources and garden design projects
here.
Your
guests are greeted with potted plants at your front porch.
You
open your front door, you see all the way through to
your backyard. Is
there a landscape focal point to feast your eyes on
across the living room and into the backyard?
Don’t
you love homes that have that outside/inside feel?
It makes just sipping coffee at the breakfast table, working in your
home office or gazing out the family room window soothing and
a reason to smile when you have something in your garden to feast your eyes
on.
Your big backyard isn't just someplace for a
backyard play set and play house
or to roll out the barbucue grill anymore.
More and more people are treating their backyard like
another room.
They are designing their back yard like a room - patio
rooms- furnishing with garden furniture and patio furniture,
garden accessories, patio umbrellas, fireplaces and propane
patio heaters.
Usually
there are several “rooms”
within the one. Your whole front and backyard is your personal piece of
paradise no matter how large or small.
Your whole landscape design can expand your home visually
and physically.
Your
landscape design and garden design will be as individual as you are – just
like the interior of your home - in your style - your way.
(Find your design style here).
When
planning your
garden design and patio room spaces outside think how you will view them from inside.
Create
a Room with a View
Do
you spend a lot of time inside working?
Perhaps at the kitchen window?
What about in your home office or craft room?
What do you see out the window? A big backyard, a
bare block wall five feet away... a neighbor's looming
second story window?
A
burst of color right outside your window can brighten your
day, even make you smile.
It gives
an added dimension to the landscape design beyond.
Display
your bird house collection on the tree just outside your
window where you can enjoy them from inside. You don't
have a birdhouse collection? Or even a birdhouse? They
add color, can be fun and you can be sooo
creative.
Make
your own, buy a wood birdhouse from joann.com
(check out FREE projects at
joann.com!
) or
from your local craft store. Paint it... Mosaic it by
breaking those old dishes, or even cover it with bottle
caps. Use an old peg, knob or sturdy twig for the
front stoop!
Check
out The Ultimate Birdhouse book for tons of ideas.
 
The Ultimate Birdhouse: 40 Functional, Fantastic and Fanciful Houses to Make for Our Feathered Friends.
(Click on picture for more info)
If
you are looking for ideas or maybe would rather start your
collection and not have to make your own, check out the birdhouses at Outdoor Living
Yardiac.com
has awesome painted bird houses
and great bird feeders.
Create
a “window box” like this one to set plants and other
interesting things to gaze at.
Click
here for easy instructions.
Do you
just want to browse or buy a window box?
Great, Yardiac.com
has an interesting selection.
Do
you have those narrow wastelands between your house and the
block wall? Make
a patio room vignette outside each window to get your
inside/outside look.
Paint the fence wall, hang your
collection of all those sun faces you've been buying in
Mexico or at garage sales. Place garden statuary
outside one window.
You
may plant a flowering vine and let it grow on an interesting
trellis or topiary out side a window.
The trellis can be an Art Object itself or painted
the color of the wall so it disappears.
Some
fun and unusual trellises can be made from inexpensive
everyday items. Get
Garden Arbor and Trellis ideas
here. Garden statuary, a garden gazing
ball and yard art can give your room a view.
Use
stepping stones to connect all the little patio rooms along
your narrow path. You may want to use flagstone
pieces, or concrete step stones placed in a meandering
(not in a straight line) from one vignette to the
next. Accent your path with an occasional garden
stepping stone in your style rather it be a resin stepping
stone, a Victorian stepping stone or even a mosaic stepping
stone you make your self.
Find
stepping stone ideas at OutdoorDecor.com
Don't
for get to light your path and spot your yard art with
landscape lighting. Check out some ideas at Yardiac.com
Have
you ever thought about painting an accent wall out
side on your block wall?
Talk about big Pizzazz for little cash!
Click
here to see more!
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