Thursday, March 1, 2018

Need A Garden Renovation? Sod Work Is The Start

By Barbara Stevens


Having a beautiful outdoor living space can motivate you to take a healthy walk and get some much-needed vitamin D from the sun. To reach these heights start applying some garden decoration ideas to your yard and you will spend more time outside than indoors. A neat and tidy garden is great but needs sod work to be ready, and a well-decorated one is inspiring, you could end up having breakfast outside with your family admiring the ornaments.

If you are into painting get out your paint set and get working on some smooth rocks. These rocks are easy to work on and look great displayed in a garden, use some bright colors that will stand out and create an ambiance. You will like how they look with some color. Place the rocks in the area that has a lot of green plants in them to enhance and compliment the green.

Mirrors are a good idea for the great outdoors. Not used the same way as indoors of course, they are great for creating an illusion that the plants are more than they seem. You must just place the mirror amid many green plants, to create this effect. Choose a mirror that is not too big or small, to not have a problem with it being overwhelming or underwhelming. It must be just right, therefore analyze your garden before you place a mirror there.

Do you have a fine spot in your garden where you usually have tea? If not create one so that you can enjoy your tea in nature. Get some lovely garden chairs and place them in the right spot for shade, paint the white to add some color. You can add a table to complement the chairs and place your sconed on to nibble as you drink tea. To add an extra touch of color add some cushions for both comfort and appeal.

Old gardening tools can still be put to good use, depending on the look you are going for, you can just place them among your plants to hold them up. As you will notice that some plants lose their form when they get bigger and need help staying up. The gardening tools can help in this regard. If you are not going to a country feel you have to paint them a different color with a splash of new color.

If you have an old bench that has been sitting outside and is now rusty and the paint has cracked. Consider a new paint job, and then fixing it to place some new pot plants. Spreading the new smaller pot plants all over will not create a feel. Putting them all on the restored bench draws attention to them and that side of the yard. Even though you cannot sit on the bench anymore it is still doing good work.

If you have a dull space that needs some attention, find some of the old stuff that you have collected over the years and decorate with them. You may have a watering can or two or ten, it is not exactly easy to throw them away. Just take them and decorate your garden with them, fill up that dull unnoticed space and draw attention to it with the cans.

The garden can be made to look beautiful all it takes is some imagination and tools. Remember that because the plants are usually green, opt for brighter colors when you add ornaments to your outdoors. This will complement the green in the plants, explore colorful patterns and a rustic type of look. This goes well with plants, you cannot go wrong with those combinations. A touch of color with the simplicity of rust.




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