Decorating
Decorating: Brilliant Ways to Bring In the Great Outdoors
Keen to inject the spirit-lifting energy of the outdoors into your home? Our inspiring ideas are a breath of fresh air...
Explore the colours and textures of the natural world without leaving your house. Using authentic or stylised imagery and materials, these decorating ideas should put a spring in your step – and inspire you to get outside, too.
Gray Slate Wallpaper
Introduce natural textures
Evoke the romance of the wind-swept Yorkshire Dales with this trompe-l’oeil wallpaper of a dry-stone wall. Natural wooden furniture is the perfect partner for the craggy backdrop. The effect is rugged, rustic and rather convincing.
Evoke the romance of the wind-swept Yorkshire Dales with this trompe-l’oeil wallpaper of a dry-stone wall. Natural wooden furniture is the perfect partner for the craggy backdrop. The effect is rugged, rustic and rather convincing.
Add a fresh frieze
Get your fix of lush greenery with a wall frieze. This simple grassy design makes a great splashback, adding a swathe of vibrant greens to the otherwise white space.
Get your fix of lush greenery with a wall frieze. This simple grassy design makes a great splashback, adding a swathe of vibrant greens to the otherwise white space.
Reflect your surroundings
Double your enjoyment of the outdoors with strategically placed mirrors. Position them to reflect views of the world around you – even just a window box of flowers or leafy planters on a patio – making them visible from every angle.
Double your enjoyment of the outdoors with strategically placed mirrors. Position them to reflect views of the world around you – even just a window box of flowers or leafy planters on a patio – making them visible from every angle.
Make wood work
Get back to nature and appreciate a fallen tree put to use in an unexpected spot. This rough-hewn plank, beautifully supporting a contemporary bathroom basin, proves stunning slabs of wood aren’t just for dining tables.
Learn how to introduce raw texture
Get back to nature and appreciate a fallen tree put to use in an unexpected spot. This rough-hewn plank, beautifully supporting a contemporary bathroom basin, proves stunning slabs of wood aren’t just for dining tables.
Learn how to introduce raw texture
Feel the grass between your toes
If you love walking barefoot on grass, lay a ‘lawn’ in your living room in the form of a verdant rug. It will also help to link a garden-facing room with the outdoors, and you’ll be able to sit on it without fears of a damp behind…
If you love walking barefoot on grass, lay a ‘lawn’ in your living room in the form of a verdant rug. It will also help to link a garden-facing room with the outdoors, and you’ll be able to sit on it without fears of a damp behind…
Relax in dappled light
Re-create the sanctuary of a spot under a shady tree with leaf-patterned sheer curtains that filter the sun’s rays. Comfy chairs make the most of the relaxing, dappled space.
Re-create the sanctuary of a spot under a shady tree with leaf-patterned sheer curtains that filter the sun’s rays. Comfy chairs make the most of the relaxing, dappled space.
Try wild bathing
Sink into this huge boulder of a bath and imagine you’re bathing by a wild river. With a super-smooth interior and gorgeously rugged exterior, this is feel-good texture on a massive scale.
Sink into this huge boulder of a bath and imagine you’re bathing by a wild river. With a super-smooth interior and gorgeously rugged exterior, this is feel-good texture on a massive scale.
Treat your toes
Experience the pleasure of walking barefoot on irregular, smooth stones – but replace an ice-cold waterfall with a piping-hot shower!
TELL US...
How do you bring a bit of the outdoors into your home? Share your best tips in the Comments below.
Experience the pleasure of walking barefoot on irregular, smooth stones – but replace an ice-cold waterfall with a piping-hot shower!
TELL US...
How do you bring a bit of the outdoors into your home? Share your best tips in the Comments below.
This wallpaper depicting sketched trees adds a magical forest mood without the design being overwhelming. It’s perfect in a small space such as a cloakroom, giving you a few minutes to feel lost in a fairy tale world.
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