Showing posts with label Botanicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Botanicals. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 June 2012

small gardens

So I have this really small garden in our new house and right now we've been so focused on renovating the house that I've never really thought about how I would like my garden to look like.

You see, I've never been the gardening type of girl... have always loved the decorating of the interiors of houses rather than the exterior.

But a lot of the blogs I read and the pinners I follow on Pinterest are garden lovers, and I cannot help but find myself inspired and repinning away of photos of beautiful small gardens. Something I can refer to when hopefully, one day, I get the time and spirit to spruce up our future garden.

Here are some of my inspiration photos of small gardens... or corners of bigger gardens. :-)

via Design Chic
I love topiary and a neat little garden like the one above. Okay, my garden / landscape vocab is a little rusty, so I'm not going to be narrating much here. I need my landscape architect friends to help me out.

Paul Bangay
A cute white bench to enjoy the greenery.

BHG
I would love to have a fountain in my garden. And I like the way the plants are encircled around this one.


Debora Carl Landscape Design
I love the idea of having a gravel laid path.

HGTV
And, if I could have flowers - surprise, surprise - I would want white flowers.

Shelterness
This adorable urban garden above would be more my style. Simple, a little bit modern, and low-maintenance.

via The Good Stuff
Our garden in our new home is a side garden, kind of like the one in the photo above. It's about 10 feet wide. I love how they've laid out the slabs in this diamond pattern.

via Downsize my space
I love this small garden with square blocks of different plants. Cute and contemporary.

unknown source
Black makes a great accent colour for seating, tables, chairs and planters in this photo. Note the gravel again.

Flickr
Succulents are always adorable.

House Beautiful - Chris Barrett
I love this little courtyard with the stone table stacked with green goodness.

So how would you decorate your garden? Hope you enjoyed my inspiration photos!

Have a great weekend!

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

lovely botanicals

Do you run out of ideas on what kind of artwork to dress up your walls?

I find that I love pictures of botanicals! 

You can have a collection along your stairway wall...
Pinterest
Or have them framed with a background that matches the colour of your walls...

Liz Williams Interiors
Group them together at the dining table...

Providence Ltd
Or above your bed...

New England Home


I found this awesome idea by The Painted Hive to print photos from the NYPL Digital Gallery.

So I downloaded some of my own for my future reference and use to dress up my own house later. You can click on the source link or directly save them to your computer to edit and print for your own homes...

NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery

NYPL Digital Gallery
Aren't they lovely? 

I like ferns, too...

NYPL Digital Gallery

NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery
If you like DIY (and have the time for it - I love DIY, but don't have the patience nor the time), I also found a cool idea to make your own pressed botanical prints in my Design*Sponge at Home book. It's also featured in their website here

In the making. Design*Sponge
Tadaa! Ain't that pretty? Design*Sponge
Hope you've been inspired this Tuesday morning! Have a great day! 


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