How to Transpose Interior Style Into Your Landscape

Designing a garden, I must go inside your home.  I need to see how you live in the home and which garden views, from inside, are the most important.  Your color choices are important, from, sofa, wallpaper, paint, art, accent pieces.
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Another element is how furniture is arranged in the living room, dining room, and breakfast room.  Those arrangements I often copy exactly for furniture groupings outside, in your garden.  Style choices for the garden furniture too.  Your interiors/exteriors must flow.


pic via The Garden Home.


 
Pic via Pinterest, here.

Arranging plantings in your garden, I often copy a few groupings, below, from table top, chest top, mantle top.  Transposing a pair of lamps into a pair of understory trees, pair of plates into a pair of plant drifts, pretty bowl at the center, below, could easily be the focal point bench/urn, you get the idea.



Pic via The Garden Home.


Pic from Pinterest, here.

Garden, above, could be pulled from a mantle with a pair of vases, a lovely bowl in the center, and a nice painting on the wall.  See it?
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How you design your table tops inside your home says a lot about how your brain works symmetrical/asymmetrical etc.  And I know you'll like the same styling outside.
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Quite fun, it never pales, when a client will say, "Oh, I love that.", then I reply, "I simply copied that chest top you have in the dining room.", "OMG, you did."
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Subtle & sublime.
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No one taught me to do these things, I just knew to do them.
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My grandmother, Laura, was a great piano player, by ear.  Little access to sheet music, she was known to play the newspaper or magazines.  Transposing written words into notes.  I like to think I've transposed her piano playing into my garden design methodology !
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Now, look around your home with new eyes, and take it outside into the garden.
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Garden & Be Well,   XO T