Garden in your home
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Would you like to feel in your home like in garden?
With some design work, you can change any room to jungle.
With some design work, you can change any room to jungle.
- To help bring your garden inside, try to establish a visual connection between the garden and home. French doors and sliders extend your eyesight beyond the boundaries of a room, while lowering windows to seating height, wrapping them around corners or installing bay windows can help draw a room into the landscape.
- Cover the floor with terra-cotta pavers or painted wood for an outdoorsy look.
- You can paint the interior walls to match the dominant colors in your garden, or echo the color of blooms or leaves in pillows, lamps or other accessories.
- Furniture made from natural materials such as wicker or for example rattan; pair with cotton or linen fabrics in stripes, solids or large florals to bring the garden indoors all the year. You could even use one of the exquisite outdoor furniture you can find on the market.
- Use inside metal furniture. You can find antiques metal garden furniture at antiques shops and yard sales.
- To complete the setting, use a distressed painted bench for a footrest or side table, or make your own table from a planter or urn topped with a piece of glass or stone.
- Hang an hammocks across the corners of livingroom and bring the garden indoors all year long.
- You can install a wall Fountains or table top fountains in your room.
- Houseplants is the most important thing. Indoor plants brighten up your home. Large, lush plants such as palms and umbrella trees will help bring the garden indoors.