- Colors selected for the room are colors found in gardens, such as soft greens, light tans and buttercup yellows, or floral designs. Wrought iron pieces in black , or painted white or green, designed with vines and leaves, such as a coffee table, are perfect accents in rooms designed in the garden style. Wrought iron and wicker accent chairs also work well, as do slip-covered upholstered pieces.
- Garden decor style is for those people who may feel claustrophobic in a room decorated other styles. Traditional, and even contemporary, feels too heavy to them, or too cold. They need to be closer to nature. Garden style fills a gap that designers didn't realize was there until the decor evolved to create its own official style. For those who love to garden and love to be in their gardens, garden style will resonate with them.
- The dining room table and chairs is often wrought iron or wicker, or a bistro ice cream set. Tablecloths, place mats and other linens are typically in floral designs or printed with vines or stripes, but they don't have to be. They can be anything you might use on an outdoor table on your deck or patio. Accent pieces such as chairs and tables in living rooms and family rooms are often wicker, twig or Adirondack pieces or a park bench. You may see garden tools as wall decor, botanical prints, trellises, dried flowers hanging in bunches from the rafters, and terra cotta pots either filled with plants and flowers or used as containers for other things. In a bedroom, you might see a picket fence or wrought iron gate as a headboard or wall decor.
- Some components of garden style vary according to region. You will be more likely to see cacti in garden decor in the Southwest than in the Midwest, but, if a Midwestern family has a hankering for Santa Fe, they may recreate the look and feel in their home.
- Accents in rooms decorated in the garden style can be as whimsical as garden gnomes or wind chimes, or a larger element such as a trellis or an arbor with real plants growing around the slats.
