Bring the outside in with these garden room ideas
Take inspiration from the foliage, texture and pattern found in the garden to add to the beauty of a garden room, conservatory or spacious kitchen that leads outside.
Take inspiration from the foliage, texture and pattern found in the garden to add to the beauty of a garden room, conservatory or spacious kitchen that leads outside.
Here are six ways to create a stylish but natural garden room look
Introduce terracotta
Use clay floor tiles to create a rustic look that can be continued outside. Here, the warm tone, emulating traditional flower pots, offsets the vivid green of the plants while, the complementary pale wood architecture continues the greenhouse feel.
Re-use gardening equipment
Arrange a collection of old watering cans, gardening kit and potted plants to make an appealing, rustic display along a shelf or window ledge. Low watering cans make interesting pots for plants and flowers.
Pick nature-inspired fabrics
Use botanical and bird motif cushions in coordinating tones to make a relaxed seating area. Lloyd Loom-style woven furniture in a similar tone unifies the scheme perfectly.
Choose woven furniture
Replicating garden furniture, woven seating and tables work well in garden rooms. Shapely and streamlined designs have a soft elegant look. Lloyd Loom and Marston and Langinger have a stylish selection of woven pieces.
Grow an indoor garden
Cultivate and display established plants or herbs in an array of colourful pots. Mix vibrant leafy green tones with earthy terracotta and galvanized metals. Here, a dining table has doubled up as a plant stand.
Bring in the harvest
Use a painted potting table to transform part of a kitchen into a display area for produce from your plot. A rustic settle alongside adds to the garden theme.
Alaina is the Style & Interiors Editor at Country Living (previously Home & Crafts Editor). Her creative eye stretches over decorating, style shoots, seasonal inspiration and craft, as well as event styling and licensing creatives. She has a BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design and started her 17 year career at Hearst on House Beautiful before discovering a love for nature, the country home and bird watching. Alaina also works on Modern Rustic where she champions talented makers, and Vintage Home. Alaina has held several craft workshops and talks and styled a Country Living with Raymond Blanc's at Le Manoir.
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