9 Tips for Colorful Outdoor Living Spaces in Worthington and Dublin OH Areas

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If you want your Worthington and Dublin, OH, areas outdoor living spaces to be more colorful, there are many ways to introduce permanent and temporary color. These tips can help your landscaper understand what you want in the way of more color for your landscape.

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Paint

One of the most underrated ways to inject color can be to use paint. Your landscaper can paint a cement privacy wall an understated color like gray to serve as a backdrop or it can be yellow to draw the eye and create a focal point. Replacing the surface of your patio with a durable and beautiful stone interspersed with decorative tiles or colorful tiles to form a border can bring more life to your outdoor spaces. 

If replacing the patio floor with stone is not an option, have your landscaper paint the floor either a uniform color or in a checkerboard pattern of classic black and white. Paint can be used on a birdbath or a fountain to make them stand out in the landscape bed. 

Colorful Furniture and Textiles

Colorful furniture can be an excellent way to bring color to the landscape. You might prefer a patio furniture set of neutral tones with brightly colored and patterned pillows that can be interchangeable. Brightly colored throws for snuggling on a chilly evening can also infuse the space with more shades. 

Adding Adirondack chairs in a circle around a fire pit can be fun, as can multicolored chairs to surround a dining table. Your landscape service can coordinate the colors within the spaces by using rugs to tie the look together and to keep from using too many different colors. unifying the colors within a space can be important to the overall effect so that it is pleasing to the eye.

Planters and Flowers

Oversized, colored planters can add some zest to your outdoor spaces with the advantage of having the ability to be moved around at your whim. Fill them with various shades of green with ferns, drooping creeping jenny, and colorful seasonal blooms and you have a riot of floral delight. 

Again, your landscape specialist can combine the colors so that they are complementary together and will last the whole season. 

Water and Tile

A beautiful way to create a focal feature that brings both color and sound to the landscape can be to have a landscaper install a water feature such as a fountain on an outside wall and use decorative tiles to design a visual backdrop and shape. Another way to use colorful or patterned tile can be as the risers on stone steps that lead into the house or out into the yard. Tile can be the countertop surface for a coffee bar or outdoor kitchen and it can be used anywhere in the outdoor spaces as a border or banding to designate rooms within the patio area. 

Plants and Borders

When you want to take the color into the softscape of the yard, your landscape service can plant a border of floral and green hues that helps to define the edge of a landscape bed. From bold purples and yellows to soft whites and creams, these colors stand out against the backdrop of a green hedge or wispy ornamental grass.

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About the Author:

In 2001, Shawn Rine decided he would like to earn a little pocket change. With a used mower and lots of hard work, he got his neighbors' yards into shape in no time. Nearly two decades later, Rine Landscape Group has a few more mowers – not to mention a staff of certified landscape specialists and an extensive portfolio of innovative, functional landscape projects in neighborhoods all over the Greater Columbus Metro Area.

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