What are the Best Greenhouse Styles?
A garden is very much a personal pleasure first, and a public pleasure second. It can be that we share it with others when we have a barbecue or a party in the garden, but more usually our gardens are a sanctuary away from the rest of the world. It is therefore important to know that when someone is looking to build a greenhouse, that it is a very personal choice as to the style and design that it should take.
So just as Dolly Parsons is some folks idea of hell, it is also some others idea of heaven. And so there is very much a conflict that lies at the heart of any discussion about what the best greenhouse styles are, because best is incredibly subjective, and whilst a Victorian Greenhouse may be what some people think looks great, for others a more modern or contemporary design is the only way to go.
There are however some two questions that you can ask yourself you aren’t sure which greenhouse to pick and want to make a reasoned analysis of the pros and cons of different designs.
1. What is the design style of your house?
The first question that you should ask yourself before deciding on which style of greenhouse to choose, is how it compares to the design of your home.
If you have a cutting edge contemporary home, but then opt to get a greenhouse in the Victorian Style then it will, at best, look odd. So you need to give some careful thought to the environment in which the greenhouse will be displayed.
You are generally better off matching as closely as possible to the design of the nearby buildings, because you do not want your greenhouse to be the canter of attention, but rather for it to blend seamlessly into the surroundings.
2. What is the design style of your garden?
You should also look closely at where precisely you want to place the greenhouse, as this can also play a role in a decision as to how it should look.
If you have an enormous garden then you will have far greater choice in where you eventually site the greenhouse. And the style that you choose will often depend on whether you site the greenhouse very close to the house, in which case the above advice of matching the houses styles would normally apply. Or quite far away from the house, in which case you can often choose styles that are bolder, and perhaps less in keeping with the main building.
You often see such design considerations in practice for example in grand old New England mansions that have outbuildings. Often times the main building will be in built in classical style, but the outbuildings may have an Ancient Egyptian influence. These are generally far enough away from the main building that they are in effect able to make their own design statement, without fear that it could dilute the design statement of the main house.
And even if you don’t happen to own a New England Mansion (most of us don’t unfortunately!), the same sense of staying true to design styles holds true when a greenhouse is a hundred meters or more away from the main house.
There are a tremendous amount of designs that are available for greenhouses, and pretty much whatever you can think of from a style perspective is available somewhere.
It is however such an individual concept that there cannot be rights or wrongs globally about style.
The fact that a style exists after all automatically indicates that SOMEONE likes it!
There can only be individual choices that you make about styles that work for you, and so look at lots of different styles of greenhouses and think through the potential placement before picking the style you will have to live with every day.
Alexandru Chiuariu, Web Content Copywriter of Greenhouses for Sale, providing web copy and articles on greenhouses styles and on types of greenhouses.
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