Divide Your Garden Into Separate Living Areas
Do you wish you had a nice secluded area in your yard to just relax and get away from the distractions and activities going on around you? Would you like to set aside a little plot to grow your own vegetables or designate a play area with swing set for the kids? Well, its not that hard to create different "rooms" in your garden to make it a great living space for the whole family. With a little planning and knowing where to start, you will soon be on your way to creating great living areas in your backyard.
Some Great Resources On Garden Rooms
Outdoor Kitchens: Designs for Outdoor Kitchens, Bars, and Dinning Areas (Quarry Book)
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 01/09/2009) 
Conservatory Style: Garden Rooms, Glasshouses, and Sunrooms
Amazon Price: $30.36 (as of 01/09/2009)
Rooms Outside the House: From Gazebos to Garden Rooms
Amazon Price: $26.60 (as of 01/09/2009)
Room Outside: A New Approach to Garden Design
Amazon Price: $37.49 (as of 01/09/2009)
The Decorated Garden Room: Interior Design for Your Outside Living Space
Amazon Price: (as of 01/09/2009)
Where To Start
Make A Plan
No matter how small your yard is, it can be divided into separate areas. Did you know that dividing even small yards into different rooms can actually make your garden seem larger?The first thing you should do is ask yourself some questions to determine what type of spaces you want to create. Do you like to entertain or dine outside? Do you have children or pets that need an area to play? Do you want to have an area for a vegetable or kitchen garden? How much time to you have to spend maintaining your garden?
Decorate and Define Your Rooms
Solar Garden Stake Accents Garden Or Pathway With A Whimsical Dragonfly Motif
Amazon Price: $12.50 (as of 01/09/2009)
Mr. Light Copper Plated Stainless Steel Lantern with Shepherd's Hook
Amazon Price: $22.99 (as of 01/09/2009)
Resin Garden Stake - Welcome
Amazon Price: $6.11 (as of 01/09/2009)
Gazing Ball Ground Stake
Amazon Price: (as of 01/09/2009)
Where To Start Creating Rooms
The best place to start is to find an area of your yard that already lends itself to being divided. A cozy corner, an area behind a tree, or an alcove beside the garage or house.Now that you've decided where to place your first room, you need to decide how to "enclose" it. There are lots of ways to make one area of your yard separate from others. You can add a fence or wall, or a simpler way would be to create flower beds and plantings around the area. A pathway leading through an arbor makes a great dividing point going between one area to another. Vines growing over a structure makes a great garden room or retreat.
Ebay Garden Decor
Once you've set up your garden rooms you'll want to add accessories to personalize your rooms even more. Ebay always has lots of great, unique garden decor items.
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Finish With Some Great Furnishings
Once you've created your first area, it will be easier to work off of it to create the other spaces that you want in your garden. You can decorate each area in an entirely different style. Whether you want a cottage garden, a formal dining area, or a retreat with seating around a water feature, just repeat some plants, materials or colors in each area to tie it all together
Great furnishings will add comfort and beauty to your garden.
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand byGood Gardening Info Links
- Arbor Day Foundation
- Lots of information and resources from the Arbor Day Foundation.
- My Prairie Garden Home
- Lots of plants, seeds, garden decor and garden structures and tools plus more good gardening information.
- Darl's Prairie Creations
- Unique Gourd Birdhouses in my Ebay Store.
- Happy Gardener Blog
- More gardening info on my gardening blog.
- Webshots
- Great garden photos for this lens are from Webshots.
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- Ideas and Plants for Landscaping Your Garden
- A lens about starting a garden and deciding on a landscaping plan.
- Under The Mulberry Tree
- A lens about my garden under the mulberry tree.
- Toads In My Garden
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Pastiche wrote...
Lovely outdoor decor ideas. I love creating and decorating my outdoor living spaces. Lensrolled to Garden Crafts series of lenses.
Posted November 18, 2008
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
My lnadscaping skills are limited due to lack of time. I would love to have gardens and paths, shady spots and sunshine.
Great lens
Lizzy
Posted July 27, 2008
