12 Tips to Improve Wellbeing by Linking Interior & Garden Design
1. Frame The View of The Garden
Stand back and consider the view of the garden from inside. Can you improve the linking space with careful choice of door and window frames and surrounding wall coverings? Do these linking elements maximise the view? Are they in-keeping with the architecture and built environment? Where wooden frames may work well in certain contexts crittal or frameless glass will be an improvement in certain environments.
2. Construct a Consistent Colour Palette
Consider your surroundings when selecting colours and finishes. Use similar colours, materials and textures indoors and outdoors for continuity. Working with the Victorian colours that run throughout the house of our Highbury Interior Design project, we constructed an autumnal-inspired palette featuring terracotta, tan, natural wood, ochre, and forest green.
3. Evoke a Greater Sense of Space
A layout and colour scheme that draws your eye out through the doors and windows will create a great sense of airiness and space. Lighting the exterior space in the evening makes an enormous difference as we are always drawn to the lightest point.
4. Create a Calming Sanctuary
Incorporate natural motifs, earthy tones and organic textures promotes tranquillity, balance, and well-being. layer up luxurious layers to make a space feel more welcoming and harmonious.
5. Choose Natural Materials and Finishes
Natural stone worktops and splashbacks are an excellent starting point for designs that enhance wellbeing. Grounded in nature, the colours, organic shapes and textures instantly elevate an interior design. Here, the leathered finish marble worktop was the starting point for the colour scheme and design.
6. Create Flow Between Zones
7. Simplify to Elevate Wellbeing
Embracing simplicity in both design and everyday life, will help you achieve a greater sense of balance, clarity, and overall well-being. In this case we chose a Tadelakt finish to remove the need for unsightly joins and grout lines.
The additional touch of houseplants in the bathroom is a simple to improve wellbeing by linking interior & garden design even when there isn’t a view outside.
8. Consider Biophilic Principles
Biophilic principles focus on incorporating natural elements to create spaces that enhance well-being and connect people with nature. This includes using natural materials, greenery, organic shapes, natural light, and elements like water or views of the outdoors to evoke a sense of calm and improve physical and mental health. This might be a simple as choosing natural wood batons that allow natural light to flow up through your staircase.
9. Seamlessly Link Interior and Exterior
A classic mistake is to add a kitchen extension that opens up onto the view of the garden without thought for what the new design will be looking out onto or the elements that will create a seamless link to the outside. In this case we moved the patio space somewhat further back and chose an indoor tile that had an exact equivalent that was suitable for outside. This simple visual trick doubled the sense of space, seamlessly linking interior and exterior zones.
10. Enhance the Original Architecture
Whether a contemporary urban apartment or country cottage it is always going to be easier to create a look and feel that enhances your wellbeing that builds on the authentic architecture. It may be tempting to increase the size of windows or doorways that look outside, but this may not either permitted or the best strategy at all. Here, the existing beams and wooden doorway were enhanced with natural textured materials, wicker, linen and calico and combined with a soothing, natural palette.
11. Open up Interior Walls to let Nature in
When undertaking a renovation, the addition of glass panelled interior doors and windows enables you to separate different zones, providing a level of sound-proofing and allowing for multiple usage, whilst letting the natural light through.
12. Build a Haven in The Garden
Perhaps the ultimate way to improve your wellbeing is to establish a peaceful retreat surrounded by the nature of the garden, away from your home. The same principles apply, opening up the interior space to the view and allowing the garden to flow inside.
Improve Wellbeing by Linking Interior & Garden Design Image Credits:
Image 1:Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designers Ann Jackman and Laura Nicolson
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 2: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer David Massingham
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 3: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Laura Nicolson
Photography by: Limelight Interiors Photography
Image 4: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Stephanie Bailey
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 5: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Tracy Duncan and Garden Designer Jo Connolly
Photography by: Limelight Interiors Photography
Image 6: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Jessica Jones
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 7: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Lorraine Sakharet
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 8: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Lorraine Sakharet
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 9: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Tracy Duncan and Garden Designer Jo Connolly
Photography by: Limelight Interiors Photography
Image 10: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Jo Miller
Photography by: Chris Snook Photography
Image 11: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Amanda Delaney
Photography by: KT1 Photography
Image 12: Led by Decorbuddi Interior Designer Juliet Elliott
Photography by: Darren Chung