Nature In Your Dining Room: Eating has become something more than just a delicious meal when nature’s elements come to your space. When you take the outdoors and bring it into your space, you could be having an entirely sensory experience. From the eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle on, bringing the outdoors into your dining makes for a soothing and connected atmosphere. Here’s how you do it.
Nature In Your Dining Room
Alfresco Dining: Take It Outside
Some easy ways to bring nature into your dining are as follows. First, one can take dinner outside. Whether it is a picnic, a garden rooftop brunch, or a cozy family dinner in your backyard, outdoor dining is sure to make one feel connected more to the beauty of nature, especially as compared to being indoors where one cannot enjoy open space and natural light besides fresh air.
For example, you can set the dining table under a tree, and within that, add some fairy lights for that warm, rustic feel. Maintain the atmosphere with wooden or wicker furniture.
Natural Elements for Table Decoration:
Bringing the outdoors to your dining table needn’t be a literally “eating in the park” experience. You can also add natural materials to your table setting to bring earthy ambiance into your indoors. Here is one idea: wooden or bamboo utensils, jute placemats, and linen napkins are sure to make for a quite eco-friendly yet stylish dining setup.
For example, having potted plants placed at the corners of the dining area, refreshing flowers at the center, or seashells and pebbles for table décor are all little things that bring in natural without bombarding the set.
Farm-to-Table Ingredients
Yet another way that nature might enter into your dining experience is in the form of the food itself. Here you can pick farm-to-table ingredients that are organic and sourced from locally based growers. Cooking in ingredients of seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs brings the freshness and most importantly, the flavor to your meal thus leading to a better wholesome experience.
Example: Prepare salad using fresh herbs which you have grown in your garden yourself, or buy fresh produce from a local farmer’s market in order to truly enjoy the essence of farm-to-table.
Open-Concept Dining Rooms
Blurring the division between indoors and outdoors is best done by an open-concept dining room which then merges to a patio or to a garden. Wide windows or sliding doors that open to green areas will let in natural light and fresh air so you do not have to go that far to ensure dining there is refreshing.
For example, a dining room which leads out to a garden or courtyard can afford you a beautiful view while dining, thus ensuring that the great outdoors becomes part of your dining space.
Conclusion
This involves nature in the dining experience such that it not only enhances the ambiance but also brings comfortable feelings of relaxation and mindfulness. You could dine outside, use natural decorations, or even source fresh ingredients to make meals memorable, infusing nature into your dining experience.
