A Roof Garden it’s a roof garden, a very nice and interesting garden design solution that allows you to take advantage of the areas of the roofs or terraces to go and create wonderful high-altitude gardens. Obviously there are numerous types of hanging gardens, which vary substantially on the basis of the type of green that you decide to plant.
In general, a roof garden usually consists of larger planters that are filled with a mix of evergreens, flowers, shrubs and herbs. In short, roof gardens can be considered as real outdoor rooms, including outdoor furniture. Today, the examples of roof gardens available are truly numerous, ranging from the simplest cases, made in a residential setting, to decidedly more extensive and complex solutions built on larger structures.
THE benefits of these hanging gardens are numerous: a suspended garden of this type in fact increases the value of the building and makes it more sustainable and efficient. In addition, the urban green of the roof gardens really helps the environment since it allows to fight air pollution and also acoustic pollution and regulates both humidity and temperature.
Another important advantage concerns the best rainwater management, which at first is retained by the plants and which then evaporates and is returned to the surrounding environment.
Roof garden: five furnishing suggestions
If you have decided to venture into the world of roof gardens, today we want to provide you with some ideas and some furnishing ideas that can be useful in the organization and decoration of your urban garden.
Sofas and candles
If you have a nice large terrace at your disposal, we recommend you bet everything on potted plants and to create an elegant and relaxing atmosphere with thefurniture. For example, we suggest you decorate your terrace with a nice set of garden sofas and armchairs, to be moved freely around the environment following your personal taste.
If you are looking for ideas, at Ikea you can find the ÄPPLARÖ set, perfect for your roof garden. To make the atmosphere even more magical and relaxing then enrich everything with scented candles.
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Large garden table
To make your urban garden even more welcoming, together with potted plants, we recommend that you also consider adding a comfortable garden table is many chairs, to enjoy the arrival of summer at the table with friends and relatives.
If you are looking for ideas for your shopping, at Ikea you will find the ASKHOLMEN set, with table and chairs in solid acacia, perfect for recreating a modern and at the same time romantic environment. If you are a lover of the genre then you could enrich everything with a nice colored carpet.
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Loungers for relaxation
If the space available is limited and you don’t want to go and insert tables and chairs in your roof garden, a super modern and elegant design alternative could be to enrich your urban garden with a series of comfortable loungers, perfect for enjoying the warm rays of the sun surrounded by nature.
At Maisons du Mond you can find several sun loungers perfect for recreating this type of atmosphere, but we recommend that you take a look at this woven resin sunbed. To recreate a roof garden similar to the one in the photo you might also think about planting some saplings or to arm yourself with highs glass railings to protect your roof garden from the elements.
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Hanging umbrella and table for two
To give your roof garden an allure romantic and sentimental we suggest you add a nice one to the plants wooden coffee table for two people, perhaps complete with suspension umbrella for your romantic lunches away from the sun.
At Ikea you will find numerous furnishing ideas, we suggest you consider the umbrella from the SEGLARÖ line and the TÄRNÖ garden set. You will see, your roof garden will be simply irresistible.
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Atmosphere with lamps and sofas
Finally, in view of the evenings in the company of your sweet half, you could furnish your roof garden with some comforts sofas and with many lanterns, to create a romantic atmosphere on a softly lit terrace.
At Maisons du Monde you can for example find a garden corner sofa that seems perfect to recreate the atmosphere of the photo below.
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