It's Time to Bring the Inside Out With Green Space

The need to socialize outdoors with family and friends and practice social distancing is easy with green space. Learn how to bring your interior living out to the patio, porch, and entertaining alfresco style in green spaces ease the excitement of socializing together once again.

Creating Green Space For Perfect Outdoor Entertaining

By this time of year, we are already climbing the walls with cabin fever from the New England winter and sheltering at home. Dreaming of green space all around makes the home the center of everything. It is time to create an outdoor space where we can safely socialize again.

Home has become a living sanctuary for families and for everyday living. Imagine bringing your indoor furniture outdoors to create that sanctuary to be able to continue to socialize. It is not only the inside that makes a house a home, but it is also being creative with every inch of space you have and thinking outside the box of its intended purpose.

Springtime Entertaining Outdoors

Spring is here. It's the time of year when we all long for change, for the new, for rejuvenation and waiting to relax and entertain in warmer weather outside our homes. If you think that socializing at home has become a thing of the past, think again.

Entertaining outdoors is even more exciting when you can create an extended living space where the inside of your home spills out into your green space and onto the patio or deck area. It becomes an extension of you as well as an extension of your home.

Socializing with my family last weekend gave me a new appreciation for the outdoors. Having the kitchen open out onto the deck made it easy to entertain. Although our summer furniture isn't yet outside, I ensured we all had a comfortable place to sit with plenty of room to spread out. These places are gathering spots for family and friends. Places where cherished memories are made. A place where there are no work distractions or stresses of the world. Comfortable furniture to relax and view the beauty of your surroundings, listen to the birds sing and take in the beauty surrounding your home.

Creating The Perfect, Functional Green Space

Outdoor furniture today is resilient, weather-resistant, and modeled after interior furniture. Even outdoor area rugs are made to look like they belong inside a room design and can be used inside as well. Being able to creatively implement a way to socialize with family and friends outdoors is important.

This is when our outdoor green space becomes essential to our way of life. The vision of wooded walking paths within our home's landscape is an ever-growing need. A place to walk the dog uninterrupted in a peaceful but social way. What better place to enjoy an Alfresco dining experience than right outside your home?

The alfresco dining experience and social gatherings can still be achieved even in a private shared community. Imagine relaxing while listening to the trees sway in the soft breeze of your outdoor living space. Now is the time to take steps to plan to live in a world where safe social gatherings can be done at home, as a home is the center of everything.

Here are just a few ways to create and enhance an extending living green space:

Add Privacy and Beauty with Lattice Panels

Use lattice panels attached to the side of your patio walls to create a creeping rose garden to beautify your space.

Plant an Herb Garden

Having individual herb gardens with fresh rosemary snips set in tiny glass holders or jars at each place setting makes a very fragrant dining experience.

Create an Earthy Patio

Install a cobblestone patio for that earthy ground underfoot (greencos.com)

Add Color and Texture

Add an indoor-outdoor rug for color and charm and to ground your conversation areas.

Use Throw Pillows for Comfort and Depth

Add colorful throw pillows to the patio furniture seating.

Creating a flow between your indoor living and outdoor green space can enhance your entertaining with family and friends. With a touch of creativity, you can add another dimension to your home and lifestyle. Isn’t it time to create your best outdoor living space!

About Debbe Daley

Debbe Daley is one of New England’s leading experts in interior design, decorating, and the styling of interior spaces. She is a professional speaker, educator, influencer, business coach, and owner of Debbe Daley Designs. She also teaches creative interior design, home decor enthusiasts, and change-of-career-minded individuals at her School of Interiors through courses, mentoring, and hands-on training. Debbe is currently an installed Design Services member for the Boston Design Center.

Contact Debbe at ddaley@daleydesigns.com or (978) 697-0288.