Outdoor Design Trends

Outdoor Design Trends

These outdoor design trends are creative, inventive, and natrual ways to update your outdoor space. The current outdoor design trends are leaning toward more useful, tranquil, and functional. Impletmenting some of these ideas into your space can help make your outdoor space a true extension of your home.

Layers of lighting

Using lights on different levels adds depth and interest to your outdoor design. Try adding lights as accents, using different intensities, or even a layered effect. Implementing a few different layers can make your yard and garden a true extension of your home.

Chill Vibes

Tranquility is where it’s at. Leaning toward a mellow feel with a relaxed, playful setting versus a high-contrast vibe with edgy landscape. You can achieve this with hanging chairs, water features, wind chimes, and strings of lights draped casually through the trees.

Encourage outdoor time for kids

There are many mental and physical benefits of being outdoors. Try expanding your outdoor space to be more kid-centric by making pathways specifically for them to run through, adding ropes to climb, a playhouse, or even creating a dry river bed with river rocks and plants explore.

Nurturing and Natural Landscaping

Try garden designs with healthy edibles and herbs and plants that have healing properties. Also try incorporating, low-water landscapes incorporating native plants, and pollinators. Planting native plants also coincides with developing a conscious use of water. 

A few other ideas to try are:

• Create a meandering pathway
• Use curvy outdoor furniture
• Incorporate shapeable plants
• Plant easy care evergreens
• Have an outdoor nooks
• Use vacation inspired decor
• Accent with organic textures.

With all that being said, one of the most important things to remember is just to simply create and outdoor space that is designed by incorporating personality infused details. Get inspiration from things you’ve gathered along the way. Look at the color schemes, patterns, and textures. Use these outdoor design trends as inspiration for your own personal spin to truely make your own. Building this space for your family’s enjoyment ultimately makes it a peaceful and enjoyable extension of your home that you can use and enjoy for many years to come.

If you are rocking a wonderful outdoor space, tag our social media, we’d love to see it and get inspired!