Tips to Reform the Garden of Your Home

With the arrival of spring and good weather, we consider the reform of that garden that we had abandoned throughout the winter. You have to think of the garden as if it were just another room in the house. And after considering the location of the areas of the garden, delimited by green areas, passing or trails, you have to get down to work with the decoration.

The type of accessories that you place in the garden will, of course, depend on the style you want to achieve and the design you have decided for it. Some of the most common elements in the gardens are the following:

Pergolas:

You can use them to shade, create more intimate areas, or support climbing plants.

The pergolas made in the style and with the same material of the house, get a perfect union between exterior and interior.

An elongated and narrow garden with a pergola traversed in the middle creates two separate gardens.

Lattices: The lattices are one of the best friends of the gardener.

Other decorative elements:

Pots, which are usually decorative, of different materials and shapes, from sculpted to imitating ancient amphoras.

Lanterns, there are from the most modern to antique imitations, from balls of light to lanterns of soil; They light up when there is movement and they save energy.

Statues, of different motives and materials; gnomes, Greek sculptures, mills, sundials ...

Illuminate your garden and enjoy it at night.

You have to take into account some recommendations so that everything is perfect:

a. The lighting in the gardens should be subtle. Lots of light overwhelmed.

b. The attention must be on the plants and bushes, never on the lights themselves.

c. It is very good to illuminate the trails with garden lights at ground level, as a runway.

d. Try also with beacons at half height or on the ground to illuminate paths or the entrance to the house itself.

e. The lights that are stuck in the ground allow you to easily change your location.

f. A lantern of 2 or 3 heads will go great on porches, patios or terraces.

g. The 3-meter-high lampposts for the concourses.

h. Ceiling and wall lights for the facade.

i. Projectors with halogen lamps for the ornamental lighting of trees.

j. Lights between the branches of the trees.

k. On facades or trees the lighting upwards.

l. If you highlight the silhouette of an object against an illuminated wall it will create a theatrical effect.

m. There are solar lights for garden that turn on automatically thanks to a dark sensor and others in the presence of people because of the movement.

n. The security lights are usually on since the sun goes down and are of lower intensity (there is solar energy). Remember that the brighter the exterior is, the more secure the house will be.

o. Do not concentrate the exterior lights in a single switch; it is better to have several circuits. For example, to light only the passage area and not turn on the entire garden.

p. Use garden lights LED lamps, which, although more expensive than normal, will allow you to save energy.

q. There are solar streetlights that feed on the accumulation of solar energy.