It’s not only the house interior that requires certain décor effort. You may totally transform your garden and front yard and make it a little bit more personalized by introducing a couple of décor elements into your garden landscape. Here’re a couple of ideas that will help you decorate your garden without spending too much money on it.
Simple garden decorating ideas and DIY projects
- Experiment with the walkways. Simple concrete or crushed stone ones are quite convenient, but they aren’t necessarily the best-looking options. You may introduce a little change by adding a small section of wooden walkway to your existing concrete one, use recycled wooden planks to make the cross passages between a couple of walkways or use decorative stepping stones for the same matter. If you don’t mind working with concrete and putting a little bit more effort into your yard and garden decor, you may check out a simple DIY stepping stone project and make customized stones for your garden. Involve your kids into the project to have common memories and their small contribution to the garden’s landscape.
- Continue the stone theme and separate the flower beds from the rest of your garden by creating the stone edges. Quite contemporary and modern look of the stones trapped inside a metal cage may be achieved if you install the parallel posts to pass two rows of metal grid around the flower area and filling the space between those rows with rocks of different size, color and shape. You may even take this project to the next level and create a base for a garden table using the same technique. Just set the grid to create two rectangles (the smaller one should be situated inside the larger one), fill the space between their sides with rocks and find a suitable wooden table top to place on top of this structure.
- Another amazing and eco-friendly design for flower beds features ordinary bottles. You can choose either plastic or glass ones. Or, you may combine both. Just paint the bottles or fill them with sand and tiny stones to form a beautiful pattern and stack those bottles along the flowerbed. If this look is not dressy enough for your gorgeous flower beds, implement the idea to separate different vegetable rows/beds or to create a funny border for the kids’ sand box.
- Achieve a sense of privacy in an urban space by enclosing it with a tall wooden fence. Go to HireRush.com to post a fence building task for contractors or get in touch with a local provider by calling him directly from the website. Make sure that your local ordinances don’t prohibit private fence building not to spend money in vain. Prioritize how you plan to use this area before making any decorating decisions. For example, if it’s for dining and entertaining, make sure the grill and table are your first key pieces. Post a task right now
- Build a low wooden picket fence along the main walkway of your garden or front yard and plant large and bright flowers that would grow up this fence creating a nice romantic look. You may even try to decorate the front row of the border fence this way. If you decide to build a privacy fence, I think that you may totally ask your fence contractor to utilize the wood leftovers to create this piece of walkway decor. Or, you may refinish an old wooden ladder and install it as flower support along the garden pathway as well.
- Overflowing with your favorite flowers, window boxes are an irresistible draw for the eye. Consider planting flowers in a shade that complements the color of your home. Or, for dramatic effect, mix in a second plant that picks up your trim color.
- Well-worn garden tools may find new life when fastened together into a teepee for climbing plants. This inexpensive trellis instantly adds country charm to any garden.
- Have you always dreamt of a cozy garden lounging spot but never get to organize one? Better late than never. Don’t throw away your old couch that has been annoying you for so long. Pick a tall shady tree and set up a comfy relaxation or even outdoor working zone with the help of wicker furniture and soft pillows with bright designs. Decorate around the key piece: the sofa. Hang string lights to feel a little bit more special during summer evenings. Add a hammock to achieve a boohoo look. Check out Bobvila.com if you want to make one at home.
- Need an additional shade above a picnic table or reading chair in your garden? Use a rope to tie a base of an inverted papasan chair to the tree branch just above the place you want to hide from the sun, find a couple of old flowery curtains and attach them to the chair to create something like a hanging hovel or a tent, and enjoy a nice outdoor lunch in a shade
- Do you have an old crib just hanging out at your attic? Why don’t you turn it into a comfy vintage outdoor sofa? Remove the front side of the crib to be able to sit on it, purchase a couple of cushions to form a seat or transform and old crib matrass with a new cover. Add more cushions to make a soft back, paint the crib if it’s too shabby, arrange the pillows according to your taste and save significant sum of money on purchasing an outdoor seat for your patio.
- Do you want to add a little bit of warmth to a chilly outdoor summer evening? What about creating a portable table fire pit? Just find a suitable metal base to use as the fire pit’s bowl, a grate that would fit its shape and purchase canned fuel. Place the fuel into the base, set the grate half-way through it, add a layer of garden stones on top of the grate and set your futuristic DIY fire piece on fire.
- Don’t hurry to take down your old worn-out wooden bench. Give it a second life and turn it into an unusual garden decor piece by transforming it into a planter – a holder for your flower pots. Just attach 4 wooden planks to its sides to create the edges, paint over the entire bench and place several pots with your favorite flowers on it.
- Old car tires may turn into a wonderful raised flower bed. Just let your kiddos mess with paint and a couple of tires to receive a unique design, set the tires in your garden, fill them with soil and plant the flowers of your choice. The crazier and the brighter the design is – the better. You may even hang a painted tire to the tree, fill its inside with soil, plant a flower in it and decorate your cute ‘floating flower bed’ with a small garden gnome figure or other piece of decor your prefer.
