We frequently feel that organizing our homes is a constant in our hectic lives.
Yes, we can spend a weekend organizing, labeling, and decluttering, but I think the most successful homes aren’t just “tidy”—they’re cozy, functional, and incorporate outdoor living areas.
Throwing up a deck, a nice outdoor furniture set, and a BBQ could be so much more. Creating intentional spaces outside can extend your living area and enhance your joy and well-being by communing with nature.
In this blog post we are going to dive into some Intentional space creations to make your home flow into the outside and provide some unheard insights to the readers.
Let’s begin!
Key Takeaways
- Understanding everything about transitional areas
- Looking at the importance of both entrances
- Uncovering everything about calmer spaces
- Exploring the enigma of outside views
Transitional Areas
The transition from the outside world into the home is often a source of high stress, clutter, and chaos. By building your shed with adequate storage and unique personalization, you can have a calmer entrance to your home where joy, love, and unwinding should be the norm.
The Entranceway
This is the first stopping ground for your home, so choose a theme and get everyone to personalize the space so it feels like you:
- Decorate: Pick a common color scheme or theme of animal prints, animals, crystal sconces, or whatever feels like it represents your family as a whole.
- Get a rug to outline the space: Make it fun, regal, or just plain neutral to accommodate any colors or decorations.
- Personalize Per Person: Give each family member a hook, a small cubby, or a labeled basket. This eliminates the ‘whose coat is this?’ argument and allows everyone to be accountable for their possessions. This project allows everyone to customize their space, which can be fun, but there should be a unifying theme.
Imagine how great it would be to have a personal place for things, so when you tidy up, everything can be put in its place.
Interesting Facts
Extending indoor living outdoors boosts well-being (less stress, more Vitamin D), increases usable home space, enhances entertaining with seamless flow, and adds significant property value by creating functional outdoor rooms with features like lighting, heating
The Back Entrance
You can go for a utility that acts and works like a shed, so you can make this an even larger area, like the mentioned entranceway:
If you actually want to make the back entrance beside the sliding doors from the kitchen, you can personalize this area with built-in storage benches for extra blankets and candles to bring outside:
You can maintain the flow from your kitchen inside to a kitchen-like area outside on the deck. The sliding doors lead to a multi-level deck, which will lead you to one of those beautiful Amish-style sheds, which sits beside the serenity garden filled with fragrant herbs and all your favorite flowers.
If you’re wondering how much all of this would cost, is it even a feasible idea to do it in the first place, and all the technical questions that come with such a project, it’s best to contact a shed-building company such as Glick Sheds, or any other business that builds good-quality and custom-made sheds and similar structures.
They’ll be able to give you recommendations, answer all your questions, and give you some estimates of how much this would set you back (to be fair, it’s not really setting you back since it’s a pretty awesome long-term investment).
C’mon Outside
The kitchen inside could look like a chef’s kitchen, while the outside kitchen area could be more rustic and hide under a pergola beside the new shed.
You can have a cooking area (gas or BBQ) or maybe even a pizza oven. Family members and visitors could congregate around a lovely table to eat meals together, or you could turn this into a multipurpose area for play and homework.
A weather-protected area, like the shed, can open up onto the deck near a kitchen area, providing a play space for puzzles or a well-lit homework, computer learning space. An extension to the heart of the home, with plenty of useful storage space in the back.
Idea Train:
- Thrift a small desk and add it just inside the barn-style doors of the shed.
- Built-in catch-all storage (or thrifted old trunks) for arts and craft supplies.
- Install tall shelves that can house old cookie tins, jars, and decorative baskets for ongoing projects (like a puzzle mat you roll away til tomorrow).
You are creating something really special, and taking your living to the greater outdoors will give everyone more fresh air, quietness away from devices, and a peace they never knew they needed.
The bonus is that you have increased your living space, provided more curb appeal to your property, and have a haven for your family and friends to enjoy with you.
Calming Corner
The pace of life seems to be go, go, go with no place to stop and smell the roses. But what if one of the special areas on your multi-level deck provides an inviting, warm environment where anyone can go and just ‘be’?
Take things you love and make it a space for meditation, just sitting and swinging in the egg chair, or mindful contemplation about life and the questions you like to ruminate about.
A place designed with fragrant herbs and spices, your favorite flowers, and your favorite and useful things:
- Shells collected over time.
- Noise-cancelling headphones.
- Favorite photo albums.
- Collected favors from holidays and experiences, or even just something cool you saw at the thrift store.
Everyone could keep a few things in a serenity box near the calming area and take time away to pull things out and spend time with nature, your things, and yourself, or even a friend.
Conclusion
If you had never thought of it before, then we’re glad we helped.
Our goal is to provide you with some incredible ideas for enlarging your living area by designing your backyard in a way that elevates your house. This way, you’ll be able to come home to an organized home, unwind, and spend quality time with yourself, your family, and nature.
No panic looking for lost items in the entryway, just less anxiety, and an ambiance of joy and cosy ‘home’.
Why are outdoor fixtures required to have an IP65 rating in Victoria?
An IP65 rating means that the outdoor fixture is protected from rain and high-pressure water, which are necessary components of Melbourne’s climate.
At what depth should outdoor cables be buried in the yard?
To protect outdoor cables from being dug up unintentionally, they should be buried no less than 600 mm in the ground when installing them in the yard.
How important is outdoor space?
It is important because it adds significant value in our mental , social and physical well being.
