The porch fist is a classic pastime of the south, and a cozy, well-designed place to the square makes it all the more pleasant (and makes a great first impression for the guests).
Regardless of whether you want to build your living area for the season for the front outdoor living space, or you are ready to invest in the attractiveness of curb customers, here you will find some frequent veranda design errors that you should avoid.
- Virginia Wyatt is interior designer in Wilmington, North Carolina.
- Lori Evans is an interior designer and co -owner of Evans Construction & Design in Gainesville, Florida.
- Jodi Peterman is the founder of Elizabeth Erin Designs, an interior design studio based in Destin, Florida.
With a view of the ceiling
Do not forget upwards when decorating your veranda. The designer Lori Evans sees Veranda ceilings as one of the biggest missed possibilities that she sees too often.
“It is the fifth wall and can take a break to design your veranda,” she says. “Here in the south, Haunt Blue is beautiful and loved for a certain reason, but there are many other ways to add character.”
For example, she loves to experiment with colored wooden boards, painted trim or even a detail in order to increase the overview of a veranda.
Design disadvantage
One by designer Jodi Petermans Porch Pet Peeves has to do with the relationship between design aspects.
“One of the biggest mistakes I see on veranda architectural as well as decorative and in relation to the appropriateness,” she says.
It has noticed several new construction or renovation projects that show the columns and railings that are not proportional to the size of the house and which bring the entire curb out of balance.
The same applies to veranda facilities, she notices. If the furniture is too small, it can be lost in design, but furniture that is too large can overwhelm the room. “Skala is everything,” says Peterman.
The designer Virginia Wyatt has another size -related that frightens you, and these are carpets outdoors that are too small. “This is a big no for me,” she says. “The size of the carpet must anchor the seating area and be proportional to the room.”
Too much furniture
There is too much good, and Wyatt believes that this applies particularly to verse.
When choosing veranda furniture, she takes into account the size of the veranda and the way her client wants to use her veranda. For small verands who have no entertainment rooms, she recommends that you only stick to a veranda without being additional seats. Otherwise, the general blueprint, which it recommends, is four chairs with an arrangement of two compared to two and a small beverage.
If you love to organize groups on your veranda frequently, it is important to have enough seats for you and your guests. But there is nothing wrong with pulling a few additional folding chairs out of the warehouse if the occasion requires this.
“Make sure that there is enough space to move and breathe is the key,” she says.
Do not add plants
Your veranda is a transition room between nature and indoors, and potted plants are a great way to blur the line. And in Evans' eyes, a veranda without living plants looks incomplete.
“It doesn't have to be complicated or fussy, but nothing goes through the warmth that brings a living plant on her door,” she says.
For covered verands, she recommends spending shadow -loving hydrangeas, boxes and ferns for a classic look.
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Prioritization of the form through function
You can design the most breathtaking veranda, but if it is not functional, Perman says that everything is for nothing.
“A veranda is not just a design element – it is part of the house,” says Peterman. If there are no comfortable seating or the seats that are configured there so that it is difficult to use it, people just don't use it. ”
For example, two large wrought iron chairs can look very beautiful in a photo, but four smaller basket chairs with comfortable pillows encourage them to load their friends into a veranda.
Improper lighting
Another veranda design -fauxpas that Peterman sees too often overlooks the lighting. The goal is to create a warm, illuminated environment that creates a friendly entrance to your home.
“I see so many verands with a light on the door, and that's not enough,” she says. Peterman suggests laying your veranda lighting by installing a mixture of wall lights and lanterns if possible. If the hard -wire new devices are not in the budget, the string lights are a good alternative.
Verands that do not match the interior
Your veranda is your first opportunity to show your guests her decoration style. Evans says that the style should be coherent with what is on the other side of her front door.
“Your veranda should really feel like a natural expansion of your house,” says Evans. “Many homeowners treat it as a completely separate space, but it should flow really well from the inside out.”
The easiest way to connect the two rooms is to bring some of your favorite interior to the outside world, says Evans. This may look like adding some of our favorite candle holders to their terrace table or holding their favorite throwing blanket on their veranda swing.