Using statues to help increase the appeal of your garden is an ingenious idea. You'll notice that it will not only add some whimsical appeal to the garden, but it will also look very classy. There are a lot of ways to use garden statues in the dcor of the landscape; however, you'll want to consider using the garden ornaments or statues to tastefully accentuate the overall appeal of the home.

The whole idea is to lay a foundation of beauty not one of clutter so that visitors are naturally drawn to your garden. You will need to use a few, but not have too many. There is a point where you go from flashy to over doing it. You don't want to ever bring your garden to the point of looking messy and unorganized. You'll find that the statues can promote things like serenity and even masculinity. You'll want to ask yourself what it is that you are looking for in the statue, before you make any decisions.

Before you decide on a huge naked model have some consideration for those around you, especially your neighbors. While these pieces are magnificent they can also be quite graphic. You want to make sure that your garden art is tasteful and also that it's not that revealing or disturbing. Keep in mind that your neighbors may end up having a problem facing a statue of a naked person each morning so make sure whatever you choose is done with couth and is tasteful. The point is to consider what you think is art and take inconsideration that your neighbors may have a different type of standard for art.

Keep in mind that the materials that you use in the statue will make a difference too. You don't want to get something that looks like a cheap replica, but you'll notice that there are many different types of materials used in statues that will make a difference in price. You have options like stone which is very expensive, cast stone is a cheaper option, concrete is even cheaper, iron, steel, copper, and bronze are all very expensive and the cheapest choices are lead, terracotta, ceramic, and glass. Lead, terracotta, ceramic and glass are very fragile and can be easily broken.

There are no hard and fast rules in selecting outdoor garden statues. The selection completely depends on the personal taste and budget. Even so, there should be an appropriateness of theme, scale and contrast. Statues with dark color look stunning in a light background and vice versa. The most important aspect is the scale which decides where the art piece is to be placed.

Landscapers usually leave one square foot of empty space around the base of each statue, for each square foot of the statue. However, it is up to the person's taste but most of the gardens at the end look like a museum with countless statues placed every few inches. If the garden is crowded with statues, it will be distracting and disappointing to see it as a whole.