10 Lawn Decoration Ideas to “WOW” Your Neighbors and Guests!

Outdoor decorations are some of the most important elements for making your home really stand out and have impressive curb appeal! These decorations can be classic, seasonal, aligned with certain holidays, or simply boast your overall personality.

However, when you do put decorations on your lawn, you want them all to really make a statement. You want these to be the perfect combination of eye-catching, unique, and tasteful all the while making your house stand out amongst the masses.

Without further ado, let’s check out 10 lawn decoration ideas to really “WOW” your neighbors and guests!

1.Place Fun Garden Flags in Your Garden and on Your Lawn
It’s rather trite to say that garden flags are excellent additions to your garden (it is in the name, after all). While this is true, that doesn’t mean that you can’t place these cheer-evoking decorations in any location on your lawn! You can place garden flags in various places throughout, your garden, next to your mailbox, and even in potted plants for some added vibrance! They’re simple to set up and easy to love.

2.Hang a Watering Can Light Fixture Over Your Garden/Flowers
Why not add a truly unique decoration to your garden that’s also a bit of a playful “mind trick?” All you’ll need is a shepherd's hook, a classic metal watering can with a removable showerhead, a screwdriver, and battery-operated fairy lights.

What you’ll do is take the screwdriver to make the holes in the removable showerhead large enough to fit the fairy lights through. Then, reattach the showerhead, place the fairy lights in the watering can then through the showerhead, and the watering can on the shepherd's hook. What you’ll create is a watering can that appears to be watering light onto your garden! It’s truly a sight to behold– day or night!

3.Sporadically Place Some Quirky Yet Classic Gnomes
Garden gnomes are some of the most classic yard decorations and have been for decades. While we do love the classic gnomes, why not switch it up and opt for somewhat quirky yard pals instead? There are countless funny gnomes on the market today for you to discover and add to your yard for a fun twist!

4.Add a Wheelbarrow Filled with Potted Flowers

Wheelbarrows are not only functional for yard work but they are also undeniably aesthetically pleasing while displayed in your yard. That’s why, if you have a wheelbarrow that you don’t need to use too often, then we suggest you put it to work as a stunning decoration! Simply place some of your favorite potted plants and flowers into the wheelbarrow tub, then place the wheelbarrow anywhere in your yard you see fit!

5.Channel Your Inner “Mary Poppins” and Use an Umbrella Flower Pot
If you want the main fixture in your garden to really draw attention from your guests and neighbors, then why not channel your inner Marry Poppins and put an umbrella to good use? Try an umbrella flower pot on for size! It looks almost exactly like a regular rain umbrella but has spokes on the very top so you can stick it upside down into your garden or lawn (and it won’t, ahem, fly away!).

From there, you can add your preferred dirt/fertilizer and plants! Then, you’ll have a stable, decorative, and extremely unique flower pot for your garden or lawn!

6.Dangle Plastic Orbs with Battery-Powered Candles from Tree Limbs
Don’t forget to decorate your trees as well! One of the best ways to do so is by hanging and dangling quaint yet innocuous elements, but our favorite is easily plastic orbs that contain battery-powered candles! These orbs add a clean aesthetic to your tree and overall lawn while the candles provide warm lighting. The result: stunning and easy-to-adore decorations!

7.Put Up a Brightly Colored Birdhouse (and Attract Beautiful Birds with It!)

Birds are naturally beautiful and lead to an overall boost in happiness! In fact, there was a study conducted by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research that concluded that living in an area with more bird diversity can lead to increased overall satisfaction in humans that is on par with a raise in income!

Considering this, you should attract more birds to your yard with a beautifully colored birdhouse or two! These birdhouses will not only invite more birds to your yard, making you and the birds happier, but they themselves will look vibrant and aesthetically pleasing!

8.Try a “Spill” Garden
One garden trend that has really taken off is the spill garden– and we are glad that it has gotten so popular because we love it. A spill garden is essentially a pot that is laid sideways (typically in the dirt to stay stable) and from its top and outwards, there is more dirt and flowers planted in it. Ultimately, a spill garden creates the illusion that the pot spilled an entire garden onto your lawn!

A spill garden not only is a quirky garden idea but it simply looks gorgeous and allows you to place a garden anywhere you’d like in your yard with ease.

9.Get Creative with In-Yard Steps
Do you have an area that you’d like to turn into a small walkway but don’t know what to do with it? Try a creative in-yard walkway instead! Place tiles or bricks to create a welcoming walkway that gives your yard structure and character every step of the way.

Feel free to personalize the sort of stones or steps you lay. You can have a dog footprint on each step, paint each one a color you’d prefer, have them boast a specific seasonal symbol, and so much more!

10.Light Up Your Pathway with Solar-Powered Mushroom Path Lights
How many times have you walked along your walkway or pathway in the dark and tripped because you couldn’t see where you were going (yours truly has done it far more than I would care to share)? That’s why we suggest lighting up your pathway– but in a fun way!

Try out solar-powered mushroom path lights! They boast an adorable yet yard-themed aesthetic, which is easy for all to love (and use in the dark to see!).

And there you have it: 10 lawn decoration ideas to really “WOW” your neighbors and guests. Don’t forget to browse all of our garden flags along with our other curb appeal-boosting elements, like our house flags, doormats, and mailbox covers!