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Garden theme decor can add a fresh and cheerful look to your home, just in time for spring. A garden theme can be the perfect choice for any room in your home, since it will work just as nicely in the bath as it will in the family room. If you'd like give one or more rooms in your home a pretty garden makeover, here are four creative ideas for garden theme decor to help you get inspired.
Choose a Cheerful Color Scheme
Sunny yellows, soft greens, and light blues are always good choices when decorating a room with a garden theme. Because these colors are reminiscent of the outdoor environment, they will help add a fresh garden look to your home. White works well when used for window treatments, wood trim, or furniture pieces. Fresh floral prints that include white, yellow, green, blue, peach and pink can also add a nice touch. In general, keep your color scheme light and fresh, using darker shades sparingly only as accent shades.
Flowers and Plants
When you're adding a garden theme to a room, it's hard to beat the beauty of fresh flowers and plants. In the kitchen, create an arrangement of potted herbs on a sunny window sill to add a pretty as well as useful decorating touch. Since bathrooms are usually a bit more humid than other rooms, they can be the perfect place for a pretty fern or a hanging plant. In the bedroom, add a touch of romance with a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers. A bouquet of flowers can also work nicely as a centerpiece for the dining room table or as a decorating accent on the fireplace mantel. When using live plants to decorate your home, it's important to pay attention to their light needs. Place sun-loving plants on windowsills and shade-loving plants in corners and on shelves.
Decorate the Indoors with Outdoor Accessories
If you love the look of a wrought iron trellis on your outside patio deck, why not enjoy the same look indoors? Many outdoor decorating accessories will work equally well inside your home. This look can work especially well when decorating an indoor patio or sunroom, but it can also be used successfully in other rooms as well. For example, a watering can would make a pretty planter or vase displayed beside the fireplace. You could also use a set of outdoor patio furniture in an indoor patio or sunroom. Use small outdoor yard statues and garden stakes to accessorize your indoor potted plant. You could also create a piece of wall art using pressed flowers or empty seed packets. Or, decorate your wall with a row of straw hats or sun bonnets hung on a peg or hook rack.
Use Outdoor Items in Surprising New Ways
Instead of using beadboard or paneling on the lower portion of your sunroom wall, why not add a few pieces of white picket fence? Place some potted flowers or plants in a pair of old garden boots, or use a long straight tree branch in lieu of a curtain rod. These surprising accents can add the perfect finishing touch to your indoor garden decorating theme.
Alyssa Davis is a staff writer and decorating specialist with Metal-Wall-Art.com and she offers stylish suggestions for decorating with sun metal wall sculpture and metal butterfly wall art.
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