Your front door is not only the most visible entrance to your home but also an excellent opportunity for you to make an artistic statement about the place you call home. But painting your front door itself is only one way to make the front of your home pop. What better way to create the outdoor look and feel you want than utilizing plant colors?
Just as you may utilize art and bookcases and tables indoors, different types of flowers and shrubbery can create the perfect outdoor setting for you.
There are a few different ways to go about approaching this:
Complementing the Colors of Your Home
Your home’s accent colors can be a great starting point to jump off of when working on your garden. Those colors can come from the house itself — think, trim or shutters — or other things such as the colors of your pillows on your lawn furniture. Plant colors, just like those pillows, can change from year to year.
This would also be an opportunistic time to do some homework on specific plants based on their color. For example, warmer colors like black-eyed susans and daffodils would mix very well with one another to complement a warmer trim. If you find the right color palettes, it will be well worth it.
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Enhancing the Colors of Your Home
Not all homes have an accent color — or even a primary color — that jumps out waiting to be complemented. So sometimes the best way to use your garden is to enhance the look of a more neutral-colored home — in the color itself, or the material such as natural stone or brick.
If this is the case, bring some color to it with some bright annuals painted across the entire front, from left to right. Contrast draws the eyes. Another idea would be to concentrate color in one specific area near the entrance itself, which can help create an inviting appeal.
Supplementing the Colors of Your Home
This approach allows you to focus on the garden first and foremost. You’ll always want to keep in mind the colors of the home, though this approach frees you up to flex your gardening muscles — particularly in spots of the yard that have some distance from the physical home itself.
A few different ways you can plan your garden is either by color when the plants bloom, or using a shade of green as a sort of palette with some ground cover and working off of that. Different colored themes can be used from year to year. While some plants fade, you may want others to be coming along and blooming. And with a shade of green as a background, you can open yourself up to lots of fun options.
Utilizing Plant Colors
Whether you use plant colors and your garden to complement your home, enhance its colors, or serve as a work of art on its own, remember that it offers a world of opportunities — which means a world full of color options! And if you’re not quite sure which colors to pick, consider finding a color expert to help you along your journey. Happy gardening. I hope you’re inspired!
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