How to Style Your Outdoor Space

When your home comes with an outdoor space, it can be difficult to work out how to style the exterior, especially if you have a strong aesthetic theme inside your home. 

While a garden or patio can be kept simple, adding a few special touches can quickly transform a space into a cosy, relaxing area.

Whether you’re after a place to kick back and sunbathe or a vibrant hub to entertain your guests, there are many ways that you can style your outdoor space. 

Consider Your Needs

Before you get started with designing an outdoor space, you need to consider what your goals are for the space and what you need from it. 

If you’re planning on entertaining guests in your outdoor space, you’ll want to ensure there’s plenty of seating. You might also want to consider facilities like an outdoor kitchen or barbeque set up to serve your guests food. 

Alternatively, if you are going to be the only person using your outdoor space, then you don’t need a full outdoor lounge set, and can instead invest in a comfortable and relaxing recliner or day bed to enjoy the sun. 

Likewise, if you want to work from home in style on sunny days, you can style your exterior to create a workspace.

Take the Indoors Out

Your outdoor space is an extension of your home and should be treated as a living space, just like your indoor rooms. So create an indoor-style living space in your garden with outdoor lounge sets and dining areas, and bring the indoors outside.

Almost everything you would buy for your home can be found in an outside-safe format, including garden sofas, dining tables, coffee tables and soft furnishings. 

Define a Space With a Rug

There are a few reasons why an outdoor rug is a brilliant choice for styling your outdoor space. From a design perspective, a rug can help to create zones in your exterior, separating lounging areas from natural garden or play spaces. A rug can define an area of your outdoor space, and can pull together an exterior lounge. 

Additionally, a rug can help bring some cosiness to your exterior. This can soften up spaces that have concrete or decking underfoot, making it more comfortable for you to relax around. 

Decorate the Walls

Inside your home, it’s unlikely all your walls are completely bare - whether it’s wall art, a hanging tapestry or a mirror on the vertical spaces of your interior. 

Wall decor can help bring a particular aesthetic flair to your exterior space, as well as infuse the area with some personality! As well as outdoor mirrors or art, you could hang sculptures, vertical planters or a clock on your exterior walls. 

Add Heating

Having a heat source in your exterior can really extend the amount of time you can use your outdoor space. An outdoor heater can keep you outside later in the evenings and allow you to use the space throughout the year, even on chilly winter days.

Your outdoor heating can become part of the design, too, with firepits, fire bowls, outdoor fireplaces or chimineas being a fantastic focal point of your space. 

Make Careful Use of Colour

Creating a colour scheme outside can be a little trickier than for your interior space, as there are already so many natural colours to contend with. If you want to make your exterior a more vibrant place, consider the colours that are already present in your landscape. 

As you can see with the Extreme Lounging Outdoor Monster B-Bags, the purple and green tones match with the plants of the same shade behind, bringing the colours of the space together cohesively, and drawing the eye to this focal point. 

Here at Accessories for the Home, we have a wide range of outdoor living accessories to bring the design of your outside space to life. Browse our range today to develop your exterior style.