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Ideas to Help Define Your Garden Room Area

15 Feb 2012

Certain articles will help to define a space that you are attempting to transform into a garden room. If you are working with a section of your garden that has no definitive walls then you have even more work to complete. But rest assured that it is well worth the effort, and consistent searches at [...]

Ways to Bring Nature Into Any Room

In: Better Garden Room

12 Dec 2011

Even if you do not have an actual garden room per se, you can have a garden inspired room. Additions to any space, whether it have a view of a garden or not, can make a space feel alive. Some ideas include floral murals painted on the wall, floral wallpaper only inserted in sections of [...]

A Special Container Garden Rooted in the Imagination

In: Better Garden Room

12 Sep 2011

For those of you with children, creating a container fairy garden in your garden room might get you nominated for parent of the year. To set the scene for you, imagine a quaint miniature living space for those quirky fairies to spend endless hours reveling as they do. We have included the instructions for setting [...]

Selecting the Colour Scheme of a Boast Worthy Garden Room

In: Better Garden Room

11 Apr 2011

A garden room is intended to be light and airy, a mimicry of the garden itself. While this can be created with colours that are drawn directly from the shades of your rose bushes, mammoth hydrangea, or sweet sunflowers. The alternative being that you go with an entirely neutral palette so that the very things [...]

Family Time Gets Rebooted with an Inexpensive Purchase

In: Better Garden Room

22 Mar 2011

Not only does a family room need to accommodate each member comfortably, but it needs an attraction to reel each of them to the area. While it is easy to resort to big screen televisions, surround sound audio equipment, video games, hundreds of cable channels, or a dvd library large enough to make a film [...]

Remember the Garden Room Requires a Lovely View

In: Better Garden Room

23 Jan 2011

A garden room can be an exquisite addition to a home, but there is one very important thing that you should remember. And although it might seem obvious, you would be surprised at how many people overlook it. The view from the garden room should by breathtaking, not blocked, or lacking. Therefore, as you plan [...]

Tips For Serving a Meal Outside

In: Better Garden Room

6 Sep 2010

Serving meals outside are great opportunities to be super creative in ways you may not attempt indoors. Something I did recently was to use scooped out gourds as serving containers, and everybody loved them. To do this on your own garden table setting, hollow out things like acorn and butternut squash. These are well suited [...]

Wonderful Reasons to Grow Plants Indoors

In: Better Garden Room

26 Jun 2010

There are many more reasons to grow plants indoors than the average person knows. Sure, back in school they taught us that plants take carbon dioxide from the air and replace it with oxygen. Yes, good old photosynthesis remembered. That and the beauty they bring to any space make plants pretty darn special. However, our [...]