85 Landscaping Ideas to Create an Enchanting Outdoor Space
You may never want to go indoors again.
Thoughtful landscape design is the key to creating an outdoor space that truly revives and inspires you, whether you have a tiny courtyard in an urban area or a sprawling estate in the country. Everything from grass type to the design of the flower beds and the hardscaping contributes to how you use the space—and how often. To help you transform your own patio, yard, garden, and more, we've rounded up inspiring landscaping ideas and examples that truly make the most of their natural surroundings. Scour the list for answers to your own design dilemmas, and you might happen across a few unexpected ideas along the way. (And if you're looking for a simple guide to help you come up with a landscape design from scratch, keep reading to the end.) These outdoor spaces will pave the way to better landscape design for every size, style, and region.
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Hadley Mendelsohn is the co-host and executive producer of the podcast Dark House. When she's not busy writing about interiors, you can find her scouring vintage stores, reading, researching ghost stories, or stumbling about because she probably lost her glasses again. Along with interior design, she writes about everything from travel to entertainment, beauty, social issues, relationships, fashion, food, and on very special occasions, witches, ghosts, and other Halloween haunts. Her work has also been published in MyDomaine, Who What Wear, Man Repeller, Matches Fashion, Byrdie, and more.
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