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Garden Statues
August 13th, 2009
Aside from colorful flowers, different kinds of trees and shrubs and the layout of your garden, you could improve the landscape design of your garden backyard or lawn by adding garden statues. These statues come in different sizes, designs and materials. Depending on the theme and concept of your garden design, one of these art works would definitely fit in your design plan.
The variation of garden statues that you can include in your landscaping design is vast. In fact almost every possible idea or concept you have would have a corresponding garden statue design available.
If you wanted to have a Zen influenced design, you could definitely find some that are fit to be added. There are lots of Japanese style statues that you can find and buy and these vary from stone lanterns, Buddha statues, even stone sand boxes.
For those who want to have a mythical theme, you could definitely find lots and lots of garden statues with this concept. From harpies to angels to mermaids, there is one design that would best fit your garden that would make it more than appealing.
There are also various religious statues available in the market. In fact, I think at this is one of the more popular themes being used in homes and even in public and commercial areas. You could easily find garden statues of angels, saints, Mother Mary and even Jesus Christ in each corner of the globe. These are easier to include in landscaping designs especially if the house is owned by religious individuals.
For the more artistic homeowners, they could choose to include garden statues that are based on existing and renowned sculptures. From Hellenic and Hellenistic styles to Post Modern and abstract styles of art sculptures, you could definitely find one that best fits your liking.
Then there are the fountains and the bird baths. These garden statues are also common since a lot of houses and commercial establishments love to have fountains and birdbaths as the focal point of their landscape garden design.
These designs, like mentioned above would appear in different sizes. So you don’t have to worry about t
rying to fit it in your garden. Whether you have a wide space or a small area in your backyard or lawn, you could find your choice of sculpture or statue that would best fit your garden.
Just remember that before getting any of these statues, be sure to have a complete plan of what you want your garden to look like. This way, you could get the best possible design that would best fit your landscape design.
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Large Garden Statues
August 13th, 2009
As mentioned in the previous article, garden statues come in different sizes. The more impressive and the more attention seeking garden statues are usually those large garden statues.
Large garden statues are not to be used as accents to your garden landscape design. In fact, sculptures this big should be the focal point of your design. Your overall theme should revolve in the theme or concept of your large garden statue. If you had something like this in your landscaping plans, then it would be easier for you to complete your designs because all your ideas would be revolving around your large garden statue as the subject of both your design and layout.
The one biggest and most important consideration that you would have to make when including something this big in your plans is the space of your garden as well as the maximum size of the garden statue that you could include.
If that sculpture is too big in a relatively small space, it would more likely be considered as a hindrance and a waste of space than an important focal point of your garden. If it is too small relative to the wide area, its significance might not be felt or emphasized, depending on where you place it.
In terms of themes, there are various themes for large garden statues available. You could find large sculptures depicting religious figures and themes, mythical creatures, Classical sculptures, modern art works and more.
There are even large fountains that would definitely be considered as an impressive part of any landscape design. Big houses are already impressive by simply being big, but if you include a huge fountain with minor sculptures in them or around them, then that would certainly be a site to see.
When adding these large garden sculptures in your garden, just always be careful in determining the maximum size of the statue that you want to include in relation to your garden space as well as the over all theme of your landscape design plan.
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