Patio Ideas – Garden Inspiration. Garden patio ideas pictures that are ideal for a small backyard.
Some great ideas to make your small garden/patio feel bigger are:
- Cluster your pots: soften hard surfaces by clustering pots together, also great for privacy screening.
- Grow vertically: if you are limited on space stack your pots.
- Add layers: layers give depth to a small patio, add a statement piece like an eye-catching plant or piece of furniture.
Stacking pots vertically and in clusters adds depth to a patio.
![Small patio ideas pots](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Small-patio-ideas-pots-1024x677.jpg)
A table covered in a cloth by Pierre Freyand antique garden chairs from Provence, France, furnish a cozy brick patio outside a home in Normandy.
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Coordinate your throw pillows to the florals and hang a timeless pendant light to polish things off. Plus, swapping out your pillows is the easy (and cost-effective) way to upgrade your patio each season.
![Patio with blue and white checkered floor and brick walls](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/patio-with-blue-and-white-checkered-floor-and-brick-walls.jpg)
A rustic California patio. In her midcentury house in Los Angeles’s Laurel Canyon, fashion designer Rozae Nichols carefully preserves the laid-back vibe in her outdoor space with a Turkish towel top daybed by Van Keppel-Green and pillows by Gregory Parkinson.
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A French patio. Wood furniture adds character to a patio in an 18th-century row house in the French city of Perpignan. For a personal touch, window grilles and a keystone feature the monogram of the previous owners, the family behind JOB-brand cigarette papers.
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Simple black mid-20th-century steel furniture and a sculpture by Odile de Frayssinet sit in a backyard patio leading to a beautiful green garden in a home in Paris.
![classic green patio idea with steel garden furniture](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/classic-green-patio-idea-with-steel-garden-furniture-682x1024.jpg)
An old water well becomes an antique stone firepit after landscape designer Scott Shrader decks out a backyard in Beverly Hills with antique architectural pieces and Arras patio chairs.
![Patio idea with firepit](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Patio-idea-with-firepit-768x1024.jpg)
Furniture designer Kelly Behun’s Southampton, New York, beach house features a stucco-walled patio, designed by the architecture firm Sawyer Berson. A low teak table and chairs by Bonetti Kozerski Studio set off a wall adorned with staghorn ferns and baskets made in Zambia. The floor is limestone, and the rug is from Morocco.
![Staghorn ferns adorn the walls of this patio](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Staghorn-ferns-adorn-the-walls-of-this-patio-682x1024.jpg)
Transform your patio into an outdoor dining space. This space defining structure, along with the furniture helps set off this new space.
![Patio idea eating area](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Patio-idea-eating-area-1018x1024.jpg)
Danielle Dall’Armi and husband Bill Hahn, farmers and founders of Rose Story Farm, convert a 1930s Spanish colonial barn into their office and workshop, complete with a patio for planters and potting.
![Patio backyard with planters and potting](https://www.interiorsbycolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Patio-backyard-with-planters-and-potting-683x1024.jpg)
Images via Elle Decor, Veranda, bhg, House Beautiful