A Garden Room In Your Home

By Staff

Thursday, January 24, 2008, 14:04

A garden room is a fantastic idea in any home whether you have a large hose or a small one. Garden rooms will help you to look at and enjoy or simply fancy working or living in a brighter environment. Either you can reserve a particular room to alter it into a garden room or just any room in your house could be made a garden room. A bright garden room always cheers people up, especially those who love the music, colours and affection of nature.

Your garden room, either can be a room decorated as a garden or a extended room in the garden itself. But here mentioned is a room within the home altered into an interior garden. If you work from home, a garden room can make a wonderful office. You can receive your visitors in the room and while spending few leisure hours with your family a garden room would make an ideal place.

Generally, a garden room is an area with a garden theme. Think about a room in your house that you would like to transform with a garden theme. You may choose a sun-room, dining room, guest room, or your living room. once you have decided what room you want to transform few basic elements like color, water, scent, plant life, sound etc... will make the room look like a perfect garden.

Before bringing anything to the room think about the colour you need to have. Color is important to create an overall calming sense to your room. Simply think of the dominant colors of nature: green, yellow, white, blue, etc... Choose a dominant color that will shade the walls of your room. Green is a good choice, and so is white or off-white. There colours will give a calming effect.

Now think about the elements that will bring the touch of nature to your interiors. Water gets the first priority. Any garden is imperfect without water. A small decorative pond will do the job. There are many ways to add this element to your garden room. A popular item for many is the table fountain. Gurgling water is a nice relaxing sound. Water fountains also can help to hydrate plants.

Once all the basic things are done, now it is the time to bring the most essential elements of garden, the plants, into your room. Houseplants work well to introduce greenery into your garden room. Be prudent enough to bring interior plants into the room. You can also bring plants like lavender, heliotrope, snapdragons, alyssum, and tropicals. Keep humidity levels up in your garden room to keep plants healthy and hydrated. You can think about changing plants in every season.

Your garden room is all set with the essential things to make a garden. When you are done with the job, you can think about beautifying the room with few more natural elements like sound, scent etc... There are candles and other artificial scents. Choose scents such as lilac, rose, honeysuckle or lavender to get back to nature. Now think about natural sounds. The sound of water is a wonderful sound to soothe any soul. Have few lovebirds to always enjoy the sweetest voice of birds.