10 Great Modern Garden Design Ideas
A great modern garden can elevate your home and complement the existing architecture. With a clean and visually appealing garden, you can feel more confident about hosting parties or lounging in your backyard. However, transforming an existing garden into a modern garden is not an easy feat. Even knowing which modern garden design to choose can be quite difficult.
In this article, we will explore 10 great modern garden design ideas and why we think they could be a great addition to your home.
A Spa-like Garden Design
Imagine coming home to your pool and spa after a hard day of work. By implementing a design that heavily uses stone and wood, you can create a spa in your backyard. Start with a spacious pool, stones surrounding the water, and beautiful wood structures surrounding the pool. For this spa-like garden design your pool will be the focal point, so be sure to pay extra attention to this centerpiece.
Stone Landscaping
Great modern landscaping is characterized by clean geometric shapes that are clean and easy on the eyes. If you want to have a rustic and beautiful garden, consider using stone landscaping. With other design ideas, the pool is the focal point, but with the stone landscaping, the water serves to draw attention to the beautiful stone structures where the water flows.
A Modern Desert Design
If you live in an area that doesn’t get much rain, you can still have a garden that will wow your visitors. You can instead take advantage of succulents, shrubs, and trees that can withstand high temperatures. In some ways, by designing your garden to fit with your geographical location, your garden doesn’t seem as out of place. This is one of the simpler designs, but in modern garden designing simplicity is key.
Accessible Modern Design
If you have a family that loves to run around or frequently host barbeques, then you will want a design that caters to that lifestyle. Accessible modern designs have open yard plans that allow for more physical activities. You can also be more liberal with richer colors and textures. While you should still aim to have a simplistic design, you can add more embellishments to reflect the lively family lifestyle and the fun memories that your family will share.
Vintage Modern Design
The vintage modern designs should have you feeling as though you were transported to a different time. It should be reminiscent of other designs on this list but should have more weatherboard and hardwood timbers. An accessible modern design is colorful and inviting, but the vintage modern design should be full of muted colors. These designs also tend to use unorthodox materials like corrugated iron and steel. The results for many of these vintage gardens tend to be primarily silver due to the materials used.
Stylish Bedford Yard
A stylish Bedford yard can lead you to spend more time on your outdoor furniture than your indoor furniture. This yard consists of three main aspects: a beautiful pool, comfortable outdoor furniture, and beautiful plants that complement the garden. The goal with a stylish Bedford yard is to create a garden that not only is aesthetically pleasing but also a comfortable place to leisurely span time. The stylish Bedford yard is what you should be looking to create if you are looking for a calming oasis as a backyard.
Serene Green Garden Design
If you already have a lot of plants and trees surrounding your garden, you can take advantage of that by creating a garden that feels like a personal forest. With modern garden designs, white is an excellent color that pairs well with green. Look to add white ornaments and a white tile pool to accentuate that feeling of being in a forest. The clearing in the middle of your garden should have each visitor feeling as though they stumbled upon a secret meeting place hidden in the Amazons.
One point of note is that any garden that relies heavily on plants and shrubberies are much more expensive to maintain. A single plastic ornament only needs to be wiped down on a weekly basis, but a shrub could need constant maintenance and watering. However, the natural beauty that comes with plants may just be worth the extra effort!
The “Room-y” Garden
A garden does not have to be a singular unit. Modern garden designs are pushing what the definition of a garden is. This garden design plays on the fact that you can have several different gardens within one shared space. By choosing to create “rooms” for each of your gardens you can walk around and admire each aspect of your garden. This may seem counter-intuitive, but if you have limited space in your garden it may be better to separate it into several “rooms”. A large yard can accommodate a more ambitious singular garden plan, but a smaller yard can be divided into several “rooms” which can maximize the beauty within the small amount of real estate.
For each room, you can choose between separate shrubs, underwater plants, and even fruits and vegetables. Although each room can be a different feeling, there should be some underlying theme that unites each room. Perhaps you can have a garden that is full of rooms carrying plants, or shrubs that all have a red accent.
The Low Design
Modern designs do encompass large stone structures and exquisite shrubberies, but you could choose to go in the opposite direction. By having a small pool and low-level paving you can have an ornament to naturally be the centerpiece of the whole garden. When everything is low, your garden seems much more open and spacious. Some designers prefer to have everything on a low level and enjoy the landscape, while others use the low design to create one centerpiece terrace or structure that becomes the undeniable focal point of the garden.
Contemporary Art Garden Design
If you are looking to create a garden that can double as an interactive museum, this design is for you. You can borrow elements from the low design and the “room-y” design by designing a garden that can house large pieces of art while not being overwhelming. To help the pieces of modern art not feel out of place, we suggest avoiding shrubberies and natural plants. Instead, stone tiles and chic white fence panels can take your art to the next level.
The Best Modern Garden Design
These garden ideas can serve as starting points for what you envision for your yard. Feel free to mix and match elements from any garden design on our list.
Here are some elements of a great modern garden that you can add to any of these ideas
- The garden should always complement the house that it is attached to.
- The design should prioritize cleanliness and simplicity above all else
- Muted colors and natural ornaments are usually preferred
- Include water in some way shape or form (waterfall, pool, underwater garden, etc.)
- Repeat shapes and textures around the garden for a modern feel
If you follow these guidelines and take inspiration from the designs on this list, we are confident that you can design a beautiful modern garden that will impress your visitors and even yourself.
Best of luck!
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