(Image Courtesy: www.home-designing.com)How does this translate in style terms? Well, to begin with, a merging of the indoor outdoor divide is well underway, if recent trends are to be believed. From driftwood for tables, to leaf motifs on cushions - it's all over the house. Outdoor furnaces and framed wall art of shells and pretty branches collected on a weekend away are also fast catching on. A courtyard for green relief, indoor gardens and terrariums are now the perfect style statements that infuse the great indoors with the even greater outdoors. Typically, an average household will turn to a barbeque evening to entertain guests - keeps the indoors clutterfree, and makes better use of outdoor spaces for seating and casual dining.
Which brings us to the all important point of how casual? For starters, the concept of using the outdoors as an inspiration for decor or entertaining, does involve having a laid back attitude to carry off the said trend. Imagine a Jacobean Style dining room and whimsical jute napkin rings - a complete mismatch!
The perfect solution here is to work in small doeses. If your formal dining room opens onto a terrace or a verandah, you would do well to have seating outside in wrought iron and wall art in similar metal frames (varnished in a glossy finish, maybe?), for a constant look. A jute rug between your formal and informal spaces can be tied in with a lifting white silver polish for the wood in your formal space, and colourful ottoman for coffee tables in your informal space. Demarcation and style statement in equal doses! This is where the basic colours of your walls, soft furnishings and kind of lifestyle come in. Do you entertain often? Pets or kids in the house? Working couple? The answer is simple - easy clean for an easy home. If not, then you have the luxury of indulging a little more!
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