Many homeowners love spending as much time outdoors as indoors, but the two areas can feel disjointed. You might feel like you’re stepping into a new world whenever you venture into your patio area and immediately feel more comfortable when you return indoors.
As disconnected as your outdoor and indoor spaces can be, improving your indoor-outdoor flow and making them equally comfortable is possible. Sometimes, you just have to do some of the following things:
Purchase Comfortable Outdoor Furniture
You might prefer to relax in your living room because you have a comfortable sofa, but there’s no reason your outdoor patio area can’t provide equal comfort. Purchase patio furniture kits and let you and your guests relax in luxury.
There are many different options to suit the unique layout of your space, such as outdoor sectional sets with luxurious upholstered seats, sofa sets, dining sets, and even chaise lounges and daybeds. The more comfortable your outdoor furniture is, the more often you might want to use it.
Continue the Style
A disconnect between indoors and outdoors sometimes comes down to style choices. Blur the lines by carrying on the décor and design choices of your interior to your exterior. This might mean using an exterior-friendly flooring option for your deck that matches your interior floor style, using the same color palettes, and even incorporating some of the same plants. When your styles work in harmony, forming a more seamless connection between where you entertain outdoors and indoors can be easier.
Use Indoor Décor Outdoors
Many people would likely use their outdoor spaces more often if they had more of the comforts they enjoy indoors like floor mats to warm their toes, comfy cushions to sit on, and a source of heating and light when wintry conditions set in. There’s no reason why you can’t put some of the things you love about your home’s interior into your outdoor space.
Start shopping for exterior rugs and cushions to liven up your patio or deck, and consider investing in outdoor heating like a fire pit, an infrared heater, or a gas patio heater. You can also explore many different lighting options, like fairy lights, solar lights, and hard-wired exterior lights. Heating and lighting in a deck area or patio can make your outdoor space more comfortable to use at night and during the coldest seasons.
Install a Form of Shelter
An exposed deck or patio can be delightful in summer when the sun is beaming down on you, but it’s less comfortable when fall and winter set in. Many homeowners would like to entertain outdoors during the colder months of the year, but exposure to the elements can make it uncomfortable.
Consider installing a form of shelter outside to upgrade your outdoor space and make entertaining outdoors much easier. There are a number of outdoor shelter options to choose from, such as pergolas, fixed canopy roofs, awnings, and louver roofs. These options can also prove practical during summer to protect your family from the sun’s intensity.
Improving your property’s indoor-outdoor flow isn’t always easy, especially when one independent change doesn’t always make a considerable difference. However, take some of these actions above, and it might not be long until your outdoor space starts flowing seamlessly from the comfort of your indoor space.