Decorating Your Wooden Gazebo

Wooden Gazebos are a relaxing place to sit and socialize with family and friends, or just by yourself to enjoy the summer evening with a book...

They add beauty and functionality to a backyard or any open area. There are many ways to decorate your garden gazebo to fit all seasons without breaking the bank.

Commonly, wooden gazebos are octagon in shape. Start with screwing in plant hooks in the center of all sections, excluding entryways. These hooks can be used for everything from hanging plants to paper lanterns depending on the season. If you live in an area where you get hummingbirds, consider hanging baskets with plant attractive to the hummers, or hang a hummingbord feeder.

Strings of mini lights can set a great mood in the gazebo. Target is one store with inexpensive light strings with a lot of character -everything from chinese lanterns, to moroccan colored glass lights. You can hang them around the inner lip of the roof, or they can be twirled around the railing if you use the small light strings used for the Christmas Holiday. Get lights that will give you enough light.

Cushions for the benches can set the mood for your gazebo. Colorful with stripes or other summer patterns with matching colors for table cloth or place mats. Don't forget a nice potted plant, or vases with fresh cut wildflowers.

Decorating your Gazebo for a Wedding

What could be more fun than decorating your garden gazebo for a wedding? Tulle is a must of course. Hang it from a rafter, stream it on the inside of the roof, twirl it around the base of the gazebo and attach flowers at each rafter. Hang flower garlands in each opening, and strew flower petals on the gazebo floor...

If you are using your gazebo in the fall, many fun opportunities abound to decorate your gazebo for Thanks giving and for Halloween. Hang ghosts in the openings, spiderwebs can be used in a thousand different ways in a gazebo, add black candelabras, and a whitch or two, and you will have your own haunted house, or haunted gazebo, rather.

Decorating your gazebo for Christmas can be a lot of fun. Go all out with lights and hang wrapped boxes with pretty bows all over your gazebo. If your climate is somewhat temperate you may want to use a gas heater to extend the usage of your wooden gazebo.