5 Garden Decor Ideas For Adding Personality to Your Outdoor Space

From bronze statues to garden fountains, decor accents for your garden are perfect for expressing yourself.

Turn an old drawer into a wall-mounted planter for herbs and vines that add pizazz to your yard, and save with do-it-yourself yard decor such as a trowel doorknocker and egg carton votive holders made from flexible plastic bottles.

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Cozy Seating Area

Whenever you’re enjoying your outdoor space, it’s only right to add at least some sort of seating. You can opt to put in an oversized hammock for guests to relax in, wooden seats to surround a tree or add in a whole upscale sectioned off ”seating area”, such as with chairs and a fire pit, where you and your guests can relax, chit chat and still soak in fresh air and drinks outside.

And feel free to dress up an outdoor seating area with a rug, which can define separate seating areas and provide bare feet with some extra padding underfoot.

But your backyard should look like who you are. If you want to incorporate the same colour palette with soothing tones that matches your interior design scheme for relaxation, use throw pillows and hang some string lights. Or another way to show ambience is hanging some planters with herbs!

Incorporate Personal Touches

If you fill your garden with multi-functional decorative objects, you can layer on meaning as well as form. Install your sundial to track blooming flowers, or hang a wind chime so it sings on every breeze; by using multi-functional decor, you’re telling the stories of your landscape.

Add a colossal urn that at once complements the aesthetic of the space and can hold soaring plants such as ornamental grasses and petunias. Then state the fountain for movement, not to mention the sound of trickling water.

The personal details – the final touches – that will bring your garden to life. Use garden gloves made into flowers to add a quirky element, or tea-light filled jars as economical but effective lighting.

transform a drawer into a wall-hanging grace note or a colander into a hanging planterDon’t forget to purchase outdoor-rated sealants such as Mod Podge Outdoor if you plan to attach items together for outdoor purposes.

Bring Your Indoors Outside

Some of the most fun ideas for garden décor make the most of a bit of whimsy. Check out the eyes of this little garden statue, it is keeping tabs on every visitor to the garden. And adding a splash of colour and personality at the same time!

Other low-budget whimsy might include an elaborate fairy garden (with cottage and miniature plants as accessories) or an assortment of old birdhouses to hang on the side of a shed or garage. And the Mint-themed decorations would not be complete without adding, ‘It’s Mint to Be!’ to a sign.

You can make plant walls from old wood pallets or an old ladder for a simple way of bringing your outdoor aesthetic to the outdoors for cheap. Container gardening in repurposed items such as milk bottles, kitchen utensils or old shoes will help to turn your backyard into the garden oasis of your dreams; the internet is riddled with gardening blogs and Pinterest boards full of DIY project inspiration. Planters or hanging baskets are another cheap and easy alternative to bringing greenery to your yard.

Create a One-of-a-Kind Space

Add a classy touch to your backyard by adoring it with feature. The perfect water feature to make your backyard stand out with its soothing sound of trickling water and flowing effect with the movement.
Plants are an ideal add on to your garden decor. The different types of plants complement each other and create a well-maintained lawn.

Set a large urn on a low pedestal as a scenic accent piece planted with tall ornamental grasses, or as a container garden designed with tumbling designers or petunias spilling over the sides. Or go cute, creating your own miniature fairy garden with a tiny cottage backed by stone flags to form small pathways!

Some designs even function as seats or storage for small gardening supplies. I love this wood chicken crate planter that ages into an outdoor-worthy objet d’art.

A floral motif embossed into the stony surface of a stepping-stone really dresses up a rock garden. Or if you like a more organic look, a tufted mossy wall could catch your eye, and old garden tools can be crafted into holders for your stepping-stones. For decorative touches, an armillary sphere makes a vivid alternative to a rain chain; while a hanging hummingbird feeder is a lovely addition to any flowerbed.