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How To Decorate Your Outdoors With Gabion Stone
Gabion stones can be used to seamlessly tie your home to your landscape. Whether you want to fully re-decorate your outdoor space or simply add something special to a part of your home, gabion stones could be the ideal solution.
What Are Gabion Stones
Gabion stones are commonly used to fill gabion baskets. Gabion baskets are steel wire mesh baskets usually filled with gabion stones, that are commonly used in structural engineering for protecting shorelines, river banks and slopes from erosion. However, they can also be used for a variety of other landscaping features, from unique outdoor seating to natural garden borders. Most gabion baskets are filled with gabion stone but can also be filled with other materials including recycled materials.
Benefits Of Using Gabion Stones
Using Gabion Stones within your garden for either landscaping needs or simply for decoration has many benefits;
– Allows you to seamlessly tie your home and your landscape together.
– Are a permeable and free-draining solution.
– Make a long-lasting decorative element.
– They prevent erosion and stabilize the soil.
– Easy to install.
How to use gabions in your outdoors?
Gabions can be reinvented for many garden uses. Below we have rounded up some of our favourite creative gabion stone ideas.
Create a unique outdoor seating area in your garden by using gabion stone cages filled with gabion stones. Whether you decide on a small bench or larger seating area, gabion baskets give you the flexibility to design your own ideas to perfectly fit into your space.
Design an aesthetically pleasing retaining wall with the use of gabion stones. The options here are endless. Pictured below our are popular Harvest Buff Gabion Stone.
Create a bespoke BBQ area by using gabion cobbles. Tie in your garden decor seamlessly by creating a BBQ that blends in whilst also looking unique.
Build a raised flower bed using gabion terrace walls. This will really make your flower bed pop as an interesting design choice for your garden.
Update your garden with feature walls. This contemporary deck wonderfully integrates the gabion stone baskets. To create a seamless match the same stones have been used in the flooring to really pull the look together.
Gabions used in water features can create a stirking design feature in your garden and are the perfect porous material to use. You can create contrast by featuring them against wood and plants.
Outdoor dining tables made using gabion stones or cobbles can create a unique and natural looking area to sit and dine with friends and family.
Create privacy with a gabion wall. A cosy seating area can easily be created by buildign a gabion wall to help seperate distinct areas of your garden. This one even has an inbuilt fire.
As you can see the options are limitless when it comes to using Gabion Stones to decorate your garden. At Mainland Aggregates we stock all of your gabion stone needs. If you would like any advice on using Gabion stones within your landscaping designs get in touch on 01234 831108 or email info@mainlandaggregates.co.uk