5 Ideas to Bring the Outside, Inside
Do you love the garden like me? OK I might not have green fingers (more like black thumbs), but I do like being outside. However, me and the sun don’t really get along and as such, I sometimes like to bring a feeling of the outdoors into the home. So I thought I would bring to you 5 ideas I have come across that are great for helping bring the outside, inside.
5 Ideas to Bring the Outside, Inside
Plants
Perhaps the most simple and obvious way is to incorporate plants into your home, you can do this in all different ways, from buying ready potted plants from your local garden centre (or even supermarket). To if you are good at gardening, growing your own. Personally, we normally pick up little baskets of flowers when we are out and about and have them dotted around the home. Though I must admit things like succulents and of course my Christmas Cactus are the easiest ones to look after and seem to flourish even when I forget about them.
Let in the Light
One thing about bringing the outside in is allowing light into your home. I’ve previously written some tips here. However, if you are lucky enough then adding something such as bi-folding doors from Quickslide. This can not only maximise the light coming in, but once the better weather comes around you can have them open wide.
Use Natural Accessories
Why not look for things you could use as accessories while out on a walk. Things like pinecones can look lovely placed in a bowl, and if you are feeling creative you could even think about painting and decorating them. While twigs, driftwood, leaves, fallen antlers (yes, deer do shed their antlers yearly and grow a new pair and you can often buy them cleaned and ready for decorative use). Just let your creativity flow with the things you see around you.
Use Natural Materials
If you want to go a step further than accessories, you can use natural materials for things like your flooring and furniture. There are some absolutely beautiful natural wood countertops on the market, as well as tables and sideboard to match.
Use Colours Inspired by Nature
If you want to start from the base up, then why not decorate in colours inspired by nature. Think greens, blues, yellows for your brighter colours, while neutrals can work well when it comes to beige, cream and white. Having these colours as your bases can really help you bring the outdoors in and let you work with anything you find around you.
So there you have a few ideas from me on things you can do to bring the outside, indoors. What do you think of these items, do any, in particular, take your fancy to use in your home?
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Thank you for all your ideas – I wouldn’t be without my large house plants but as we have full length windows without sills they have to stand on the floor. I move them (with difficulty)when my daughter’s puppy visits as she is at the stage of wanting to chew everything and with a new grandson on the way I think I may have to relocate some of them to a safer place!
I love indoor plants
Thanks for the tips – definitely need to get some more plants!
I’m currently in the process of trying to bring some of outside, indoors. In particular, I’m attempting to decorate my hallway with an outdoorsy/woodland theme. Some fab tips that I’ll be putting into action 🙂 I personally feel that plants add so much more than decoration to a home, I feel they add calmness and peacefulness. My top tip is to bring succulent and cacti into the home, they are so easy to care for but they look beautiful and can make a great focal piece… even my cats approve too!
I love having plants inside the house – just bought a couple of new ones when we went to Ikea (they are great value there if you happen to be visiting) – I don’t have much luck with Christmas or Easter cactus!
Ikea do some amazing things don’t they – sadly we don’t have one really close by.
Nice ideas! I love your reccomendation on leting the light in! Thanks for sharing
Trying to cultivate a herb garden in my kitchen windowsill at the moment! Lovely ideas in this post 🙂 x
Good luck! I hope they grow well for you this year 🙂
Some great ideas here. I love bringing some succulent plants inside our home.The best home decoration.
They are so pretty aren’t they – my Mum has one I just want to steal lol.
Plants are always great I find cactuses and little palm trees are very hardy so don’t need much watering ?
I can’t wait to sort our garden out this year, we have waited so long to move and we finally did in September, it was a little late to start then so this will be my first year of planting beautiful flowers, like you I’m not a fan of the sun, which is why I’ve never been or desired being abroad, I love flowers indoors, they brighten up the place, natural light is great too, apart from when its on the TV and I can’t watch my programmes that is lol xXx
Great ideas you have here. I love bright and cheerful colours in the home.
It is nice isn’t it – something quite soothing about it.
In the middle of Spring Cleaning so this has given me some great ideas x
I really need to take the leap and purchase plants for my apartment. I know it will create a wonderful atmosphere.
Oh go for it! They are lovely to have around the home.
I have to admit, I LOVE scattering succulents around my home. I tend to go for artificial ones rather than real though. Otherwise I end up killing them off rather quickly!
Louise x
Succulents are great aren’t they! They can really make such a difference to your home.
I love bringing nature and garden into the home and unlike yourself, often struggle to keep the plant alive. But that does not stop me. These 5 steps are great ideas for sure especially now that spring is arriving.
It’s good to keep on trying when you can’t I think (or at least that’s what I tell myself lol).
Great ideas! I love to have the inside indoors, I think it’s lovely to have greenery around our home!
There is something uplifting about it for sure isn’t there.
These are all fantastic ideas for bringing the outside indoors. I actually included something similar to this idea in my last blog post about how to make a small space look and feel bigger than it is
I’ll have to have a nose at your blog post 🙂
I love bringing some plants inside. They look great and really bring a nice aroma to the room.
I love these ideas. Love natural colours, my house is painted browns and greens. I don’t have any plants but would love to incorporate some.
Love this. I have a few plants. One Ive had for 20 years.
I love bringing nature into my home it makes it more cozy and lighter. I love all the tips you offer. Thanks!
I am an avid gardener. I prefer my plants outside but I do have a few inside plants too.
I have the most ungreen fingers ever so have to have fake flowers and plants indoors lol
I didn’t think I was a plant gal, until my DIL gave me one for a house warming gift that couldn’t die. Now… it’s been alive for a year. I’m definitely loving the little bit of outside being brought inside.
Yay! It is great when they are more hardy isn’t it!
I’m always trying to find ways to bring in the outside inside. I love plants, but I don’t have a green thumb. Thanks for the creative ideas!
I am glad I have given you some new ideas 🙂
I love these ideas. I am dying to try adding some plants to my apartment!
Oh go for it! You might just find you are great at keeping them alive as well 😉
I always have plants in my house to bring a bit of outside all year long! Love having Ferns too, which remind me of Brazil!
It is so nice to keep flora of all different kinds in your home isn’t it.
I love plants in the house and natural shades. I do think they make a home more relaxing
There is something really wonderful about it isn’t there.
I love having all kinds of plants in and around my house. I especially love a nice variety of succulents.
Succulents are wonderful aren’t they – you can’t really go wrong with them at all.
I do everything to try and bring the outside in, it makes me feel so much happier to have those little touches from the light to plants (although I wish I was a bit greener fingered, so many of them die!)
I am the same, I used to spend most of my time outside and now I can’t really so it’s nice to have a bit of it inside.
I wish I could keep my plants alive 🙁 They always look so lovely when I see them flourishing at other peoples houses. I’m really into lots of natural light at the moment as well 🙂
It’s such a shame isn’t it – my Mum and her friend brought two plants, on the same day, from the same place, looked after the same – one flourished the other didn’t die but it didn’t take off in the same way it is so odd.
You have some nice ideas in bringing the outside inside of you own home. I always thought about getting some house plants to liven up the place.
I hope you enjoy getting some plants some time 🙂
I love this idea! For me plants are deffo a great way to do this x
They are always nice to have around the home aren’t they.
I need to bring more plant life inside but I’ve never been that great at keeping things alive x
I’m the same but I have some lovely more hardy plants around 🙂
Simple and practical ideas
Will make such a difference
Thank you I hope they help people with some different ideas 🙂
I love these natural touches in the home. So many great ideas to use – thanks!
No problem at all I am glad they will be useful for people.
Thank you for sharing these tips! I think having plants inside can really complete a room, really makes a difference with your mood too.
xo, Sondra
It really can make for the finishing touch for the room can’t it.
Great article, thank you! I’m a fan of natural colours and materials, and of letting the light in when I can. It makes a huge difference to how it feels to be indoors.
I have to admit I do love natural materials as well I think they always look so nice.
My main goal this year is to get more light into the house. I always feel better when I’m able to see natural light.
It’s well worth having a nose at my post about that specifically if it’s goal 🙂
Great ideas. I have also a few pinecones around the house that we pick up while on walks.
It seems every time I try to grow anything it fails. I use so many herbs, spices and veggies, I’m going to give it another try with the kids. Get some nice herbs growing for the kitchen.
You can get some lovely pots so you can grow them in the window which is nice.
Lots of lovely ideas there. Funnily enough I have a bowl of pine cones right now, thanks to a tiny person intent on bringing stacks home each time we go for a walk! 😀
Pinecones are awesome! I used to love picking them up when I was smaller.
What great ideas! My favorite is using colors from nature!
There is so much you can take ideas from in nature isn’t there.
Love the plants idea, we had a few plants my Nan bought and my mum managed to kill them .. so we got a cactus thinking it would be easier, she killed them aswell (unreal lol), so my Nan then bought her a plant that needs no care .. weirdly enough it died a month later.
I think I’ll stick with natural lighting as an outside in and not plants ?
Oh no what a nightmare for you all! I have to admit I’ve managed similar in the past as well.
I always love bright colors in the house! I’m glad we have windows that brings in light as well. I could not have a dark house–it would make me tired!
I wish I could have plants but alas, I tend to kill them.
It is nice to have bright and cheerful colours in the home for sure.
Awesome ways to bring the outside in. I love having plants inside the house, it feels more relaxing and refreshing on the eyes. It’s also a lovely way to clean the air!
It really does doesn’t it – I need to think about getting some more!
I have never had good luck with indoor plants. I really love the idea, but I am horrible about taking care of them.
You can look to get more hardy ones that’s what I have to do anyway!
These are all really great tips. I have three plants, that thankfully are still alive. I do have our main living areas painted in colors from nature.
I have to admit I have one plant that’s been with me for years, I neglect it so badly but it seems to thrive.
I love letting a lot of natural light in. It makes the house a lot brighter! I love the sun coming in it makes everything a lot more cheerful!
It does make such a difference having nice bight open areas doesn’t it.
some great ideas especially as Spring feels like it has finally stopped teasing and is ready to show up
on an aside Sebastian literally brought bowls of snow in
haha I love you had bowls of snow brought in that is very literal!
Great tips in this article for bringing the outdoors inside. I always bring flowers and yard clippings indoors during spring and summer.
It is so nice when you have clippings to bring them in and make a nice display.
I would love to have some plants inside, I just love them so much, but unfortunally so do my cats xd they just keep eating them!
Oh no that’s not good at all! Naughty kitties!
I love to have the light shining in through our windows. When we can keeping the windows open for the outside to come in. Having living plants in the house makes it feel like home and helps freshen our air.
I love having a window or two open it’s so nice to have fresh air in the home.
Love your tips! I love the idea of bringing natural material inside your home. I could imagine it brings such a nice feeling. I love including plants and natural light. I actually have to look into getting more.
Thank you I am so glad you like them 🙂
Great ideas here. I love to be closer to nature and have lots of plants inside the home, to spice things up or should I say, give the place a bit of colour and fresh flower smell.
It is nice isn’t it – it can really brighten a room having something from nature in it.
My favorite tip is letting in the light! I like bright and open spaces and one way I achieve it is by having lots of windows to let in that light. I love the idea of bi-folding doors.
They would be amazing if you had the ability to add them wouldn’t they.
Some really lovely ideas. I love plants inside.
There is something wonderful about having a plant or two in the home, they always make me smile.