Depending on the space available, you can choose to surround a part of the garden with a gazebo. It is a choice that takes up a tradition typical of the Italian garden: many historic houses host a reserved space inside the courtyards where the master used to receive other nobles, friends or eminent characters who came as ambassadors to whom they serve refined th and important cafes from exotic places. These were mainly small masonry buildings decorated with bucolic or mythological themes. Even today it is possible to reproduce a similar atmosphere by installing small or large gazebos in wood and fabric or in wrought iron and fabric in the garden. By reproducing the function of the Bedouin tents in the desert, they will offer an intimate and tasteful space to spend the hottest evenings of the year. It is a very useful solution that allows you to exploit the potential of a more or less closed space or in any case isolated but at the same time immersed in the nature of a garden conceived as a continuation of the domestic environment.

The same function of the gazebo can be performed by marquees, easy-opening tents to be used only on certain occasions or modular: that is structures that can widen or shrink depending on the needs.A typical form of garden cover is the pergola, a green roof, hospitable and very environmentally friendly.

Once you have imagined the garden as a space to be exploited like any other room in the house, you will have to look for furniture and furnishing components that make this space functional and comfortable.

If you have already chosen to set up a gazebo or a tent, it will be essential to place a table and chairs inside it. In shops there are proposals suitable for all tastes and budgets: elegant suits in wood or wrought iron or more practical and modern in steel, fixed, extendable or folding. The chairs can be enriched with soft cushions that reflect the color of the predominant flower in the garden or that of the facade of the adjacent house.If you want to opt for a more informal solution that for reasons of space, for example, does not provide a covered structure, you can choose benches or sofas to be placed in strategic points of the available space. Maybe near plants of particular value or beauty or in favor of a particularly attractive landscape, in order to take advantage of particular atmospheres as happens in the film Notting Hill where Julia Roberts sitting on a bench is the protagonist of a romantic love scene. case you can choose various types of benches: from those with a more rustic or peasant air to the more elegant ones in wood to the traditional ones with parallel bands.

Those who have smaller spaces available can embellish them with planters, to be placed on the ground or suspended, in which to grow colorful flowers that give a sure sense of joy and vitality to the whole house. Landlords with a “green thumb” can install small greenhouses in their garden where they can grow not only flowers but also create a real miniature home garden.

Among the objects with a function that is not purely aesthetic, how can we forget lamps and lanterns. In commerce there are many variations from traditional garden lights to sophisticated solar-powered lamps.In the common imagination the swimming pool is the main furniture of a garden, long considered a status symbol today a very common element in homes . It can be of various shapes: rectangular, oval or other shapes at the discretion of the owner, it makes the area that surrounds it unique and can be further enriched with deck chairs, armchairs or real sofas. Or you can recreate a game of jets of water with a fountain.

However, a green, isolated and welcoming space is not a peculiarity of houses with gardens. It is possible to recreate a small green space even in the cities and even the condominiums of the buildings can use a small space of their apartment “for garden use”, where they can receive friends and recreate themselves from the city stress.

Anyone who has a balcony or a small terrace at their disposal can transplant the same elements that we generally find in gardens, except of course swimming pools or fountains.If the space available is particularly large, a gazebo, a marquee and sometimes even a small one can be set up. pergola, surrounded by flower boxes in which to grow evergreen plants, which do not require special care and therefore adapt to the hectic life of the city. Obviously you can indulge yourself in the choice of tables, chairs or sofas that perhaps reflect the taste that determined the choice of the interiors and illuminate everything with hanging lanterns and candle holders.