Garden Services Bring Home Decorating Outdoors

The popularity of home decorating is spilling out the door--and into the garden. America has been captivated by design professionals who have spent several years showing us how to use paint, fabrics, and accessories to give our house a new look. Now, some home garden services say we should give our gardens and yards a facelift too.

The popularity of home decorating is spilling out the door—and into the garden. America has been captivated by design professionals who have spent several years showing us how to use paint, fabrics, and accessories to give our house a new look. Now, some home garden services say we should give our gardens and yards a facelift too.

Working with Outdoor Decorators

Traditionally, interior designers have stuck to home decorating while landscapers have worked on yards and outdoor spaces. In many instances now the two careers are merging, as home garden services are making a yard’s design consistent with the house interior. A house designed in a prairie or southwest theme, for example, may have an open, spacious back yard.

Home garden services catalogs for outdoor accessories have become quite similar to home decorating catalogs. Outdoor designs can include fountains, spas, outdoor kitchens, gazebos, outdoor furniture, arches, sculptures, and a wide variety of flowers and plants.

Combining Careers

Whether you choose a career designing interiors, exteriors, or both, an interior design degree will be invaluable as you look for jobs with design firms or build up your own clientele. Home decorating and home garden services jobs have become increasingly competitive, and a degree will provide background in design basics that you can apply indoors and outdoors.

Interior design school will teach you about:

• Laying out spaces
• Arranging furniture
• Using color and design themes

As home decorating and landscaping jobs become more and more intertwined, having a strong foundation in design methods will prepare you to work in both worlds.

Sources:

• Home and Garden Makeover
• Santa Cruz Sentinel
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on April 27, 2006 at 9:32 AM

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