Outdoor rooms are ideal for summer party areas. If you consider beautifying them with ornamental outdoor screens like metal wall art, it will be an attractive and versatile decoration option.

As the outdoor room continues to dominate our entertaining summer areas in Australian homes, designers and homeowners think alike and are more serious about making them beautiful.

To aid you, we’ve listed down seven ways to use decorative panels in your garden.

  1. Additional privacy

    One of the most obvious uses of a decorative screen is as a garden privacy screen. By this, you can enjoy enormous weekend breakfasts in your bathrobes with your partner, BBQ with your friends while consuming a slight oversupply of alcohol or have fun while playing with your pets or children in the space that you have created for your privacy. To feel relaxed and comfortable and appreciate your garden to its best potential, you need seclusion. Decorative screens can provide this in a variety of block-out percentages to suit your demands.

  2. Increase the height of your fence

    A basic slatted fence panel is a terrific way to build a modern boundary fence without feeling entirely confined, allowing light and wind to pass through, while still providing privacy, security and soundproofing. The sun shining through the slats generates beautiful light beams and shadows, and the horizontal slats can help make a garden space appear larger.

    Use an arched decorative panel to give your fence a softer, undulating top edge to break up a horizontal stretch of fencing or screening.

  3. Garden art

    Decorative screens can also be used solely for decoration and to complement specific garden themes. Consider the impact of the new decorative screens made of perforated metal sheets that can be on fencing or outside walls when utilised as art.
    Consider tropical plants and bamboo reed screens with water elements. Consider the addition of white trellis screening to a magnificent English garden with archways and climbing aromatic roses. Perhaps you prefer something a little more avant-garde.

  4. Sun protection

    Nobody needs more than a few minutes of the hellishly burning rays of the Australian summer sun on their skin. On those few but unforgettably-apocalyptic hot days, we must endure each year if you don’t have any sun protection in your garden. You risk frying all your hard yard work and the cell-imploding carcinogenic aftermath of an unusually ozone-depleted sun. Protect yourself and your valuable plants with a stylish screen.

  5. Grow your garden up

    A vertical garden can be used to hide unsightly fences and walls, and it’s also beneficial if you don’t have much space for a garden. A colourful trellis adds a burst of colour to an outdated dark wooden fence. Frame for climbing plants can also be attached to fences. A colourful trellis is a simple and inexpensive method to give your fence a new look that is attractive and functional.

  6. Use it as a gate

    A green thumb will be irresistibly motivated by the enticing attractiveness of a beautiful screen erected as a gate entrance with a rustic garden setting behind it. At the same time, an intruder will be intimidated by a massive metal gate with a strong pattern on it. Gates set the tone for the type of garden you’re enclosing, and beautiful screens may bring this home. They’ll also make it difficult for burglars, stray pets, juvenile delinquents and enraged ex-partners to get access to your private property.

  7. Get creative

    Provide privacy for your Bali hut or pergola outside. Clear al fresco plastic shades can be installed to keep out the wind and rain, but they won’t shield you from curious eyes. Other possibilities include reed or bamboo blinds, as well as timber, reed or bamboo walls or lattice screens if you prefer something more permanent. Cladding is another option. Cladding is low-maintenance and offers a natural wood appearance. Decorative metal screens give beautiful privacy while allowing for airflow.

    With a fresh coat of stain or paint colour, you can instantly alter an existing garden fence. This strategy also allows you to vary the appearance of the garden with the seasons as colour trends change. You have the option of painting the entire fence, sections or even patterns to add interest. A utilitarian garden fence can be given personality by adding decorative details like overlay panels or signs.