Farmhouse chic has become a significant style in both interior and landscape design.
A homely style that combines both countryside charm with contemporary elements, farmhouse chic has become a popular style due to the incredibly idyllic and relaxing ambience that it radiates. Taking great influence from traditional Cotswold design and blending this with the essence of cosy American cabins, farmhouse chic is a truly unique yet timeless style that fills your home and garden with creativity. Considerably enhancing our connectivity with nature, farmhouse chic is fabulous for immersing yourself within your natural surroundings and enables you to bring home comforts outdoors. Including heavenly wildflower blends, outdoor kitchen areas and mesmerising colour schemes, let’s explore how we embed farmhouse chic throughout our luxury landscape designs.
Outdoor living
Reclaimed materials and flares of vintage are two characteristics that are noticeable within farmhouse chic design. Reclaimed stone and wood are just a two example materials that we frequently include in our farmhouse chic designs. Used to create expansive terraces and glorious features for outdoor entertaining, you will find outdoor living based at the heart of this style.
Transporting the comforting feel of your interiors outside, outdoor kitchens and dining spaces are a fantastic way to enhance the functionality of your garden. Created from a gorgeous combination of natural materials, outdoor kitchens frame beautiful social spaces that can be used all year round.
Farmhouse chic oozes relaxation and wellness. Therefore there is no better feature to install within your stylish farmhouse design than a luxurious garden spa. Create an expansive decking area furnished with a bubbling outdoor bath, sauna and more to create the ultimate garden retreat.
Hard landscaping elements
Walled gardens and retaining walls are two example landscaping features that are frequently spotted in farmhouse inspired gardens. Traditionally constructed from Cotswold stone, the warm honey tones of this material are fabulous for lifting and enhancing your garden with a soft and inviting palette. Embedding different levels and structures into your garden scene, these walls are fantastic for framing the most secluded and wonderfully natural gardenscapes.
Laying the foundations for cosy seating areas to thriving social spaces, natural flagstone pavers are another wonderful material that our in-house landscaping use to create striking terraces for garden entertaining.
For a formal and dreamy farmhouse look, our garden designers adore integrating a series of glorious gravel chip pathways throughout our designs. Dressed with drifts of lavender, these striking pathways frame a truly idyllic garden scene, enhancing the sensory value of your outdoor space.
Heavenly planting schemes
The colour scheme of farmhouse chic has always been heavily influenced by nature and the beauty of our natural surroundings. Classic and timeless, you will notice a soft shades of blue and green often used in the backdrop which are then further complimented by brighter splashes of tangerine, cherry red and purple in the foreground.
For all year-round structure and colour, evergreen hedging such as Buxus is the perfect way to give your design an elegant and refined look. Complemented by the fragrant delights of Lavandula and striking shades of Salvia nemorosa, including a series of vibrant perrenials adjacent to your evergreens is a wonderful way to create a charming contrast throughout the garden.
Fabulous for creating greater privacy and adding height to your garden, our designers adore planting rows of pleached trees to further enhance the chic and stylish feeling found within our farmhouse designs.
To add movement and further amplify the soothing notion found within farmhouse designs, wildflowers and ornamental grasses are two essentials to add to your dreamy farmhouse planting scheme. Fabulous for pollinators and considerably boosting the nectar score of your garden, wildflower turf is a beautiful garden feature that can be seamlessly established into your existing landscape.
Looking to diffuse a touch of farmhouse chic into your landscape? Talk to our garden designers today to discover how we could recreate your garden into a stylish and cohesive landscape design.
