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Investing in a garden room is a great way to expand your living space and make the most of your beautiful garden. However, your new space won’t be much use if it’s not furnished!

If you take pride in the interior design of your home, then it’s likely that you’ll want your garden room to match. But how should you furnish your garden room? In today’s blog, we’re going to show you a few different ways to decorate your garden room while staying true to your design aesthetic.

The Rustic Look

Garden rooms can have quite a contemporary look because they’re made of metal and glass. However, this isn’t to everyone’s taste. To give your new garden room a rustic feel, include furniture made of natural materials like rattan or wicker. This type of furniture is a staple for rustic looking garden rooms and boasts a number of benefits. It’s lightweight, making it easy to move around and reposition when necessary. It also gives a beautiful timeless look that’s sure to complement your natural garden surroundings.

To further enhance the rustic look, why not include some sun-loving plants, a woven rug and neutral décor? Earth tones, nudes, greys and cream can all give a more rustic look to your modern garden room.

Dining Alfresco

Using your garden room as an alfresco dining space is so easy! All you need to do is furnish it like you’d furnish any other dining room. The most basic dining room contains nothing but a table and chairs, however you can really level up your garden dining room with a few additional extras.

For dining alfresco on chillier days, consider adding a heater to your garden room. If you enjoy a cup of coffee (or wine) after a meal, add a cosy coffee table, this will no doubt come in handy even when you’re not hosting a meal in your garden room.

Most of us host dinner parties that continue long after the sun goes down, so don’t forget to speak to your garden room supplier about integrated lights, or alternatively, invest in some gorgeous lamps or fairy lights.

Hot Tub House

If your idea of heaven is a relaxing hot tub with a spa-like atmosphere, then investing in a garden room is a great place to start. These modern structures can be used to shelter your hot tub from the weather, meaning you can make the most of your relaxing space all year round.

There are a lot of garden rooms on the market that can be altered according to your specifications, so whether you want the option to open the roof (for ventilation), frosted glass panels (for privacy) or sliding doors (for easy access to the rest of the garden), a bespoke sunroom is an excellent option for your new hot tub house.

Other things to include in your hot tub house are, benches to sit on while getting dry, a towel rack, appropriate lighting and somewhere to put your drinks. Nowadays, you can even get a hot tub bar that fits perfectly around your hot tub!

So there you have it, a few different ways to furnish a garden room. Whether you prefer a relaxed, rustic look or a high-tech hot tub house, a garden room is a great space to work with.

Spending much of the past year confined to our homes means there has been plenty of time for people to really look at their home surroundings and decide which areas and aspects could do with a bit of an upgrade. Perhaps it’s that rotten, dilapidated garden shed that needs knocking down and replacing, plain indoor lighting features, or an outdated colour scheme?

Regardless of what you feel could do with a more modern update in your home, we have collected a list of simple tips and tricks that could elevate the feel and look of your home!

Outdoor Style

Many homeowners focus solely on the interior style of their homes and have a tendency to forget about, or even willfully ignore, their outdoor spaces. This often leads to eyesores remaining in place for years before they are noticed and removed! You don’t, however, have to commit yourself to a full garden makeover to improve the aesthetic and tidy the area up.

Mowing the lawn, removing weeds, power-washing patios, adding a lick of paint to fading fences or woodwork, and planting some pretty perennial flowerbeds are very easy and relatively inexpensive ways of brightening up your garden. If you want your garden to stand out and look more modern, it would be worth considering up-and-coming trends that you can add to your outdoor space, such as shou shi ban charred timber cladding. Utilising traditional charring methods to create unique and sophisticated looking timber cladding, Shuh Sugi Ban not only provides cladding that ticks the modern trends box, but that also creates an interesting focal point for yourself and your guests to enjoy – whether you decide to clad an outside wall of your home, build an outdoor bar, or cover the roof of an old shed.

Lighting Design

Lighting is a small element of rooms that can be altered to really elevate and improve its overall feel, as well as add a more modern edge. Plain, centralised lightbulbs surrounded by a simple lamp shade are a thing of the past; these days, homeowners are including LED light strips, like those from Neon Mama, feature lighting, and colour-altering lampshades to modernise their space. Keeping abreast of modern interior lighting styles is useful here for providing you with a range of original and striking ideas that can suffuse a room with a sense of excitement or grandiosity – you can then use these ideas to identify affordable alternatives that you can incorporate into your home to replicate the more expensive versions.

Updating Your Colour Scheme

When people think about modern colour schemes, a bold, icy white is probably the first thing that springs to mind – a sort of Scandinavian décor that screams minimalism and sophistication.

However, interior designers are starting to play around with other hues and shades, in addition to bright pops of colour and pattern, to create this modern feel within homes.

As one of the simplest and easiest ways of modernising your space, changing your colour scheme is also relatively inexpensive. Entirely repainting the walls in your home does sit at the more expensive end of the scale (depending on your choice of paint, anyway) but, once done, can remain that way for a number of years, whilst simply dyeing cushion covers and rugs your desired shade, and purchasing complementary items from low-cost home stores, sits at the lower-cost end of the scale – both options (and a combination of the two) can help you to modernise your home.

If painting is something you still want to do, but you want to do it cheaply, a great idea is to purchase tester pots of your desired colours and add splashes of them throughout the house!

Rather than an expensive, time-consuming job, modernising your home on a budget can be easily achieved by being creative and thinking outside of the box. There’s plenty of ideas you can sift through online to inspire you, and then a little further research will help you identify ways you can replicate these modern trends with breaking the bank – you just have to be prepared to invest a little time. But it’ll be worth it, right?

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