Look at your patio garden with a designer's eyes.
Your patio garden is your outdoor room. Design with an eye for relaxation, as well as the established decor you've set for your home.
In some cases, many home owners design their outdoor setting, patio, garden or poolside with no real aesthetic in mind. However, with the right color of outdoor fabric, and the right choice of patio cushion and patio umbrella combination, your patio can be like a whole room addition to your house, or a completely different look altogether.
Decorating with Patio Cushions
The color, the shape, and the mood of your resting area.
Patio Cushions aren't thought of until you need them. It's a shame, really because outdoor cushions can completely change not only the feel of our outdoor furniture, but your outdoor experience. To understand the outdoor cushion affect, let's look at each style based on your outdoor furniture. Outdoor Furniture Cushions by Style
Each patio cushion style seen here represent the most common outdoor styles available. These are also some of the highest quality cushions available on the market.
- Aluminum Furniture Cushions
- Aluminum furniture cushions are often thought of as the Universal Cushion. Most sizes of this cushion fit furniture ranging from aluminum to wood.
These patio cushions are typically used to create a relaxing and subtle look. More for coziness than anything else. However, because these cushions have a rounded euro cut, with the right combination of fabrics, you can achieve a fantastic sophisticated look as well. - Wrought Iron Furniture Cushions
- Wrought Iron Furniture Cushions are probably the most popular cushions around, simply because Wrought Iron Furniture is so popular. And since wrought iron furniture is so diverse, you have to take into account the actual furniture style as well. Are the furniture pieces dark or light. Are they straight up black, or do they have a texture.
Taking these points into account, with the right wrought iron cushion, you can create a sophisticated look that can really add an air of elegance to your patio. Wrought Iron Furniture is classic by nature, so an old world look is not to hard to achieve. If your frames are dark, you can either choose a light fabric for contrast, or a matching fabric for mood. If you frames are light, it's usually best to try to keep your fabrics in the lighter range. Patterns and stripes work great, as do lighter solids. - Cast Iron Furniture Cushions
- Cast Iron Furniture Cushions come in two great styles of cushions for cast furniture. Smooth Cast Iron Furniture Cushions and Boxed and Welted Cast Iron Furniture Cushions.
Cast Furniture has become very popular lately, being a marriage between wrought iron and aluminum furniture, as well as taking some design elements from wood furniture as well.
Cast furniture comes in a myriad of frames and designs, from the ornate to the subtle, so it's important to work with the frame style and color for best results. For the most part, you will find cast furniture cushions to be clean and simple looks, in order to show off your furniture. Neutral colors work best for cast furniture, but using sharp primaries like red, green and black are not outside of good design. Patterns are a little difficult to match to the austerity of the furniture. - Wood Furniture Cushions
- Wood Furniture Cushions including Deep Seating Wood Furniture Cushions, Boxed and Welted Wood Furniture Cushions, and Smooth Edge Wood Furniture Cushions.
Wood furniture is sometimes referred to as the top choice in outdoor furniture. Why not? There are so many types to choose from, including teak, hardwood, white woods and red woods, that you can create any kind of look you want.
Wood Furniture Cushions are made to blend with wood cushions in a way to only add to the clean looks.
Neutral colors are PERFECT for wood furniture, blending and complementing to create a rustic elegance, but lately, sharp Blacks and Red solid colors have shown to work well with wood, as well as stripes. Try to stay away from patterns.
Decorating with Patio Umbrellas
Shade yourself the way you deserve to.
Patio Market Umbrellas, whether you know it or not, tend to become a center piece of your outdoor decor. Whether over your table of off to the size, they focus the look you are trying to achieve in one place. They have a symbolic meaning in your patio, the place to relax, sit, and enjoy your surroundings.
- Patio Umbrella Sizes
- Outdoor umbrellas come in standard sizes for different types of applications, such as fitting particular table sizes or shade areas. They include.
11 Foot Patio Umbrellas
10 Foot Patio Umbrellas
9 Foot Patio Umbrellas
8 Foot Patio Umbrellas
7 Foot Patio Umbrellas - Aluminum Patio Umbrellas
- Aluminum patio umbrellas are the most popular patio umbrellas in the US. Featuring different frame colors and the right combination of outdoor fabrics, you can create almost any kind of look you desire.
- Wood Market Umbrellas
- Wood Market Umbrellas, also know as Wood Patio Umbrellas, are considered the most elegant patio umbrellas available. The look of deluxe hardwood is hard to get over. Almost any fabric color fit's well with wood, but consider that you should coordinate or compliment your seat cushions.
Black, Beige, and Terracota fabrics go excellently with wood umbrellas. - Fiberglass Rib Umbrellas
- Just recently becoming more popular, it's really important to know that Fiberglass is one of the best materials for making patio umbrellas from. They are strong, durable, and wind resistant up to 50mph based on studies, and are perfect for windy areas.
Fiberglass rib umbrellas are made in the same materials that most other umbrellas are made from, such as aluminum and wood, however have the added benefit of using fiberglass ribs for the durability factor.
So you can mix the choices you make from both aluminum patio umbrellas and wood patio umbrellas for your perfect look. - Offset Patio Umbrellas
- Side post umbrellas, as they are often called, offer a unique way to shade your patio. They feature a canopy that's suspended from the side, instead of a pole down the middle. Over the table, this completely changes the dynamic of your decor. With no center pole, your table decor is much more visible.
Solid colors are always best with these umbrellas. - Traditional Garden Umbrellas
- These are classic umbrellas that are perfect for garden settings, and got great with traditional furniture like wicker.
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