Summer’s warmth is here, and it’s time to transform your porch and patio into inviting extensions of your home! Your outdoor space should be a personalized haven where you can relax, entertain, and connect with nature through a space filled with colorful flowers and quality furniture. This is your year to create an outdoor living space at your New York Home that blends comfort, style, and natural beauty.
Here are some reasons why you should invest in your outdoor living space this summer and some summer porch and patio ideas and outdoor décor trends to get you inspired!
Why Invest in Your Outdoor Living Space This Summer?
Your porch and patio are more than just outdoor areas. They’re opportunities for relaxation, entertaining, and enjoying the beautiful New York summer. This summer’s trending designs focus on:
- Comfort & Coziness: Bringing indoor comforts outside.
- Vibrant Color Palettes: Using vibrant flowers as vibrant pops of color.
- Sustainability: Choosing long-lasting, eco-friendly materials, such as Finch Furniture’s composite material that uses 95% recycled content.
- Low-Maintenance Beauty: Enjoying your space without constant upkeep.
In this outdoor inspiration guide, we focus on Finch Furniture, because it’s made in the USA, will last for years since it’s made from high-quality poly lumber, and is super easy to clean and maintain (which is perfect for New York’s summers!). Plus, Finch offers an incredible spectrum of colors for its outdoor seating options. From subtle neutrals to vibrant statement shades, they have something for every taste, style, and outdoor design.
Now, let’s dive into five trending porch and patio looks that you’re going to love!
Summer Porch & Patio Trends
1. The Modern Minimalist Retreat
The modern minimalist retreat emphasizes clean lines, simple elegance, and a sophisticated, uncluttered feel. This look stays away from mismatched, disheveled outdoor pieces. Instead, it prizes harmonious, quality outdoor furniture with complementary flowers.
Finch Furniture Pairing: Finch Adirondack Chair
Finch’s Adirondack Chair has a sleek silhouette and sturdy construction. It offers comfortable seating without bulk, which is perfect for a contemporary aesthetic.
Flower Pairing: Vinca
These flowers offer a tidy, continuous display of pristine white flowers. Thus, they create a sophisticated and clean visual impact against the furniture’s modern lines.
Why it Works
The vinca’s stark white blooms provide a striking, yet refined, contrast to the poly lumber colors of the Finch chair (think charcoal gray or slate blue), thereby creating a chic and calming space without any fuss.
2. The Tropical Getaway
The tropical getaway embraces lushness, vibrant colors, and a feeling of an exotic escape right in your own New York garden. Think of a vacation to Fiji in your own backyard (well, perhaps not quite, but almost!).
Finch Furniture Pairing: Finch Glider
This classic design offers comfortable, smooth motion, which invites you to kick back and imagine you’re on a faraway island.
Flower Pairing: Hibiscus and Mandevilla
Create an exotic flair with a large potted tropical hibiscus. Its bold, showy blooms in reds, oranges, or yellows will be a showstopper for your garden.
You can also complement the hibiscus with vibrant, easy-to-care-for plants, such as the mandevilla. Mandevilla’s trailing vines in hot pink or fiery red will create a stunning vertical and cascading floral display that will be the envy of all your neighbors!
Why it Works
The hibiscus’s iconic, expansive blooms deliver an instant tropical ambiance, while the mandevilla’s continuous, vivid flowers provide lushness. These flowers will perfectly frame the relaxed comfort of the Finch Glider. Plus, adding lots of greenery and contrasting annual flowers is one of this summer’s hottest trends!
3. The Cheerful Countryside Charm
Design a welcoming, rustic-meets-refined look for your porch or patio. Focus on vibrant, cozy flowers and comfortable, classic furniture.
Finch Furniture Pairing: Finch Avonlea Garden Bench
Versatile and charming, this bench offers flexible seating that evokes friendly closeness.
Flower Pairing: Geranium and Petunia
Use baskets or planters overflowing with classic geraniums in a mix of bright reds, cheerful pinks, and crisp whites. Add some trailing petunias in complementary colors for continuous, cascading floral abundance.
Why it Works
The reliable, old-fashioned charm of geraniums perfectly complements the timeless appeal of the Finch Avonlea Garden Bench. Plus, petunias’ abundant blooms create that quintessential overflowing cottage garden look on your patio. It’s “cottage core” with countryside class.
4. The Cozy Reading Nook
Create a cozy reading nook to have a private, intimate space designed for relaxation, quiet reflection, and enjoying a good book. The cozy ready nook is perfect for small patio spaces. This space is also great for those who love to entertain and want to give guests a little garden hideaway for a few moments of decompression or a bit of privacy.
Finch Furniture Pairing: Finch Swivel Rocker with an Ottoman
The Finch Swivel Rocker is the ultimate in comfort. It allows you to recline or rock, and the ottoman enables you to put your feet up and relax.
Flower Pairing: Heliotrope and Torenia
Use vanilla-scented heliotrope flowers to add an air of charm and coziness to your outdoor décor. We love the flowers’ deep purple clusters to add an element of depth to your garden’s cozy reading nook.
Try pairing heliotrope flowers with pots of delicate torenia (also known as “wishbone flowers”). These charming, trumpet-shaped blooms come in shades of blue, purple, and pink. Plus, they are plants that thrive in shady areas.
Why it Works
The soothing scent of heliotrope and the calming torenia blooms create a tranquil atmosphere, which makes the Finch Swivel Rocker and ottoman an irresistible spot for unwinding. The gentle fragrance and soft colors promote relaxation and drifting off into any book’s fantastic land. Add a small water fountain for an extra relaxation bonus!
5. The Diner’s Delight
Design a beautiful space that is great for outdoor dining and that includes natural entertainment for your guests. Don’t waste New York’s beautiful (and short) summer eating indoors!
Finch Furniture Pairing: Finch Dining Table Set
Enjoy family meals al fresco with this dining table set and chairs. Choose vibrant colors that complement your chosen flowers to impress your friends.
Flower Pairing: Lantana and Zinnia
Create a vibrant mix of colors with lantanas and zinnias. Focus on shades of red since the color red scientifically makes us feel hungrier. So, red flowers will likely make your meals taste even yummier to your family and guests!
Plus, lantanas and zinnias attract butterflies and hummingbirds, so your guests can enjoy dinner and a show in your New York garden.
Why it Works
These flowers will provide visual intrigue and delightful activity around your Finch dining set. Also, since Finch’s durable poly lumber is easy to clean, it makes for the perfect outdoor dining furniture.
Visit Green Acres Garden Center
Ready to transform your outdoor space? Visit Green Acres Garden Center today! Let our New York garden center help you enjoy your New York garden. Our expert team and friendly staff will help you select the perfect high-quality flowers and help you create your outdoor oasis this summer.
