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Wednesday
Jun122013

Garden Styling

When we finish putting our stamp on the interior design of the home, we like to venture out to our gardens and enjoy a fresh breeze.  While nothing can compete with Mother Nature’s floral and green splendor, you can still style your garden furnishings to add that personal touch. 

In choosing your garden furniture, you don’t have to stick to the humdrum rattan chairs or worse, the cheap plastic furniture.  There are many choices to turn to and we chose some favorites here, what I call Parisian Chic and British Colonial.  

Paris is well known for cafes that line up wide boulevards. One can imagine a Parisienne bicycling up to one and meeting a friend for a croissant.  In our Parisian garden, we can enjoy our cafe on delicate iron cafe furniture from Evergreen with La Mer pillow and citrusy candleholders from Crate and Barrel. And for that special chic touch, an old-fashioned bicycle turned planter to display your blooms.

If you want a somewhat more formal garden look, take a look at our British Colonial garden. We chose the Ceylon armchairs from Ballard Designs, made of weather-resistant eucalyptus wood.  The floral Catana outdoor pillow is also from Ballard. We potted our plants in a crackle-finish blue ceramic planter from Evergreen. Instead of an ordinary side table, we used a garden stool, Cathay, in a Chinese porcelain style.

 

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Reader Comments (7)

These are good designs with all classy stuff....!
June 13, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterMedia3
Parisian chic is a preferrence... am I seeing ladybugs on the garden stool?
June 14, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterMaroubra Vet
Excellent designs its give fresh look to the home.
I really love that stuff. My mother just bought something like this bicycle in the first picture.
June 19, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterEiweiss Muskelaufbau
Fabulous design and very much creative thinking because if we design in such way its gives fresh look to the home.
June 21, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterFine Jewelry
Awesome collection.there is very nice design to decorate any things.thanks
June 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterRobi
These things look amazing! Many people nowadays look for similar items to decorate their gardens. I personally love the bicycle idea. It doesn't even have to be new or specially bought even... you can just get your old bicycle, repaint it a little and decorate it any way you want. It's a great addition to the garden, really.

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