Garden decoration with simple materials: 9 cheap ideas

 

Garden decoration with simple materials: How to beautify your garden with practical solutions and outdoor wooden products, without complicated constructions.

Discover the decorator in you and add your personal touch to breathe life into your garden design.

Do you want to beautify your garden, balcony, terrace or yard? Find below 9 ideas for garden decoration with simple materials and products, and enjoy your every outdoor space.

1. Distinct zones & wooden paths

Your garden is your little escape into nature. Fill it with your favorite flowers, trees or bushes to add color and vitality to your everyday life!

If you want an economical solution for shaping your space, you can make yourself, with roll bars, the garden beds that will accommodate the existing greenery, but also create distinct zones in your garden, corridors or paths with a rustic or modern finish , depending on the shape and color of the wood you choose.

2. Fencing

Fencing complements any outdoor space, offering protection, style and privacy.

If you want fencing that will be the envy of your neighbors, but that won't hurt your wallet, then the surest options for decorating your garden with simple materials are bamboo web fencing for DIY projects, ready-made bamboo staking on a roll, PVC staking for more savings, or wooden trellises that are also ideal climbing walls for plants and can be your natural curtains!

Find out more about garden fences, wooden trellises or thatch and enjoy the beauty of your outdoor space cheaply and without prying eyes.

3. Shading

If you don't want elaborate and expensive shading systems like umbrellas or roller blinds, don't worry, shade can be created cheaply and effortlessly!

Create your own corner of relaxation and carelessness, without worrying about the sun's harmful rays. Shade cloths of unique aesthetics in many shapes (triangles, squares, parallelograms) and economical shade nets will become your personal guards, ensuring coolness and carefree style in your garden.



4. Garden decoration with simple materials: Green your life

Even if your garden doesn't lend itself to gardening, you can add wooden pots that can withstand outdoor conditions as well as frequent watering. You can also plant outdoor plants and increase their life time with the help of SHOWOOD wooden pots that hold the soil and let the plant breathe thanks to the smart built-in fabric.

If you still don't want to spend even on pots, there are many DIY solutions to green your outdoor space! As pots you can use old watering cans, or big old wheels, paint them in the color you want and give your garden or terrace a unique style.

5. Vertical gardening

If you love gardening, but your outdoor space isn't suitable, and neither is your budget, then you might want to consider vertical gardening!

In vertical gardening, also known as vertical gardening, the axis used for plant growth is vertical and not horizontal. So if you want practical and economical solutions for a garden, vertical gardening is ideal for you. So you can take advantage of every corner of your balcony or yard, with hanging pots or DIY pots made of glass painted bottles.

6. Add color to garden decoration with simple materials

Most of the time, all a space needs to pop is a little color! There are many things you can paint to liven up your outdoor space and make it look like new!

You can paint your pots or planters and even your garden furniture in a different color palette to create special images. You can emphasize the aesthetics based on the colors of your plants to enhance the uniformity, and highlight your existing structures, such as pergola, trellises, reed beds for example.

You could also paint the garden shed in the colors of the outdoor furniture or even add natural accents to your yard by renewing the garden decking. Our advice is to always keep uniformity in mind!


7. Don't forget the lighting

Lighting is one of the most important elements for garden decoration with simple materials. This is in your favor because it can be achieved in many different ways.

In addition to wooden garden lights, which blend in with the natural environment and are specially designed to withstand the changes of weather, you can place all kinds of lights and give your garden a warm glow.

Bright and colorful lights can be placed in trellises on the wall, in any kind of cane, they can be hung from canopy or pergolas, they can even pop through mesh trellises in pots or on fencing.

Use LED bulbs that last a long time, don't have a bright light and don't use a lot of electricity, or solar powered bulbs.



8. Stones and gravel

It may sound simple, but it is one of the most popular DIY options for decorating a garden with simple materials. Stones and pebbles can give a very special air to your garden and make its design extremely interesting. Gravel, on the other hand, can create distinct corners that stand out.

If you take advantage of their natural color, or even if you paint them, you can make many unique combinations, either by matching them with garden furniture or with the plants they frame. You can add plants to the colors of the pebbles or make strong contrasts. But be careful with the amount of gravel around plants. You need to place them so that the plants can breathe and the pH of the soil does not change dramatically.

9. Add borders

Borders and demarcation of spaces in a garden or a yard are a very nice way to highlight each different corner of them. With roll bars in the flower beds or low wooden fences, you create imaginary corners, while you can create your own paths with pebbles.

In fact, these boundaries not only make the overall space clearer, but also help the plants not to spread towards other roots.