Often, while decorating or designing their interiors, people neglect the importance of decorating a balcony. They give minimal attention to it and we recommend against it.

With the right elements and decoration, you can make your balcony the most comfortable space in your home. It is the place of relaxation in your home, the natural welcoming route and probably the fine line between your home and the world outside.

So, we wanted to ask you: have you ever thought about how to decorate your balcony with plants?
Okay, let’s be more specific. Have you thought about how to decorate your small balcony with plants, a rug, a fancy carpet, or a wooden bench?

Don’t worry, because we have. And, we are about to discuss all of them in this blog.

let’s go through the ways to decorate balcony

Balcony Flooring

Let’s start with the floor itself. Instead of having simple flooring, you can have a green rug on it. Artificial green carpet or a turf rug that imitates the lawn will give an inviting look to your balcony grounds. If your balcony is roofed then you can go with wooden floors. They will give your balcony a natural wood-like feel, they look classy and have a pleasant earthy smell too. But, keep in mind that if you have white flooring in the entire apartment, then you better not jump into wood flooring, as it would break the aesthetics of your spacious decoration.

Apartments with a fixed theme can also play around with a whole load of floor fabric materials. For example, you can choose a good fabric that compliments the colour of your indoors and place some beautiful planters over it. But if your fondness for wooden flooring doesn’t let you choose anything else, then you can go ahead with placing fabric over the wooden flooring that goes along with your interior theme. Floor fabric can be your life-saver, in this case, your floor aesthetics saviour.

Also, having fabric below the planters will not allow the extra dirt or water to spread on the floor. You can place a black and white patterned fabric over an artificial rug and have white pebbles around it. Or you can go for a Japanese garden look, where the flooring is designed with compact wooden tiles. Place a wooden bench over it to complete the look with grandeur. Based on what your space permits, you can place multiple pieces of furniture and have pebbles decorated around your planters elegantly.

In the process of giving their balcony the perfect look, people sometimes overuse colours. For example, it is good to have yellow flooring and yellow-ish and white patterned fabric over the floor but it is not advisable to use red fabric on yellow flooring and add planters in myriad colours. When decorating the balcony stick to a maximum of three or four colours.

Balcony Railing

Your balcony railing is the second most important change that you can enhance. A good railing has the potential to transform the complete look of a balcony. But, we understand that balcony railings are mostly unchangeable as they are a part of the apartment. And the landlord won’t let you mess with just one balcony railing and disturb the aesthetics of the entire building. We get that, so we have suggested some ideas you can implement on the existing railing.

You can install a shelf and have your planters fit inside them. It will give a floating planter look over the railing and trust us, you will love it. After installing the flower boxes on the railing, add an ambience light at a good angle and small planters above and around it to give your balcony a classy and minimalistic look.

If you are planning to change the railing itself, then you should consider the usual 2×2 wooden railings. Since they are inexpensive, and are an elegant choice for balconies. If you want to go more stylish, then you can consider PVC or vinyl railings. In such railings, the colour constraint is high as the widely available colour is white. Though they are convenient and modern, you don’t get to explore more classy colours, and white might not contrast perfectly with every interior.

Moving another level ahead is the glass railing. Sophisticated and the best ones in the market which goes for every home. You have acrylic, solid panels, and so many other options to play around with. Having steel decorative borders over glass panels is another great part of having a glass railing. You will have ample choices to choose from.

Also, though we have mentioned here the type of railing available out there, you can always get customized railings done. There are a number of operators out there who offer custom-railing services. Get the advice of a professional interior designer and see if what you have in mind is doable and suits your home aesthetics or not.

Furniture

Now you would want to sit comfortably in your balcony, sip hot coffee or tea, whatever your preference, and enjoy your view of the moving city, don’t you? To enjoy what we just described it is essential that you choose the right furniture for your balcony. You don’t want to swamp your space with oversized furniture or swing chairs. Nor would you want an uncomfortable chair that drowns all your enjoyment down the hole.

The right selection is paramount. The first step to choosing the right furniture is analysing your balcony space. Map the space of your balcony and then go down to the market. Think. Will a rocking chair go with your balcony? Yes. If you are a person who loves spending their morning in the balcony then you must go for a mid-size rocking chair. Moving on, if you are one of those who love to have dinner dates outside and have friends who come over to your place all the time, then you can have a tiny barbeque alongside a bench good enough for two people to sit comfortably.

You can also try the small attached tables. You can just hang them over your railing and keep your coffee or book on the top. Try selecting furniture that showcases minimalistic beauty on the outside but is also equally functional.

Decorative Elements

Apart from upgrading your flooring, railing, or furniture, what can you do to improve the aesthetics of your balcony? Include some elements of beauty. Start with having small lanterns. Decor-specific lanterns are available in the market; you can get the simple ones, inside which you can light up an incense or a candle. Hanging them or even placing them strategically can give a wonderful outlook.

Hanging baskets are in trend now. You can get hanging baskets, decorate them with a beautiful small planter or make it a place for birds to drink water. Hanging baskets have become the floral or green statement of balconies today. People who love having a green balcony filled with plants often choose hanging baskets.

Other than these, you can hang frames outside or decorate your plants with lighting. Also, you can have a proper shelf for planters installed in either corner or alongside the door. Thus instead of placing the planters on the floor, you can line them up from top to bottom of the shelf. Shelves today are available in a plethora of colours, styles, and designs; the best part is you can customize them in accordance with the size of your balcony.

Plants and Planters

The final step towards having the perfect balcony is green plants. Decorate your outdoors with beautiful plants potted in equally beautiful planters, that’s it, you’ll have the finest balcony ever. You can get planters in various sizes based on the plants you want to have. Many people create a tiny garden in their balcony that acts as their private teeny-tiny garden–which is another lovely thing to do.

Plants are the perfect decor elements for any space. They bestow a very homely feeling and give a dose of nature. If your balcony gives you the view of a busy street or of a big building standing right in the center of the city or any other imagery, plants go with everything, it’s like having your personal natural escape.

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Contact Bonasila today and get yourself the perfect planter that amplifies the beauty of your balcony.