Get Inspiration from Interior Design for Your Garden Design

Garden design is not unlike interior design. It's an art form and reflective of the personal style of the individual. It expresses the essence of the creator. With interior design, the elements include furniture, color, texture, material and styles such as contemporary, country, traditional, and abstract, to name a few. Garden design is simply adapting the same design principals to create outdoor spaces and focal points with a slightly different palate of materials to work with but offers similar rewards. It's every bit as satisfying not to mention an additional way to let your creativity flow.

I like to think of my outdoor spaces as an excellent way to dabble in the unknown. Think about it for a minute. You can experiment with color combinations and blend styles that you might never have the nerve to attempt indoors. We seem more hesitant to get bold and daring indoors but with a ceiling of sky, our inhibitions seem to float away. Probably because Mother Nature is more forgiving than your mother-in-law is.

We all pretty much know what we like when it comes to design, garden and otherwise. We might not know exactly why we like it, we just know that it's pleasing and appealing to our senses. If you can't define your own style to a certain 'period' by making an unequivocal declaration that this is YOU, hope is not lost. You just need to be a bit of a detective and ferret out what your style is based on what you like. You need to look beyond the forest, as it were, and see what individual 'trees' please your senses.