Best of 2025: Balconies and Gardens
In the last week of the year, it is time to look back at the finest interiors and outdoor spaces published on The Nordroom in 2025. Today, I will share the best balconies and gardens of 2025.
This year, The Nordroom has posted a record number of home tours, design news, and home styling articles. In this Best of 2025 series, I will share the finest rooms, gardens, and architecture of the past year.
From small city gardens, rooftops, and landscaped gardens in the forest. This year’s balconies and gardens will make you want to invest in your outdoor space for the upcoming year.
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A forest bungalow in the Netherlands is nestled amid blooming rhododendrons and a heather garden. Scattered across the estate are sun terraces, a natural pond buzzing with frog life, comfortable loungers, and even a curated wood storage shed.
Storybook Swedish houses with private verandas are set around a beautiful shared garden with lush greenery, flowering borders, and quiet corners.
From the interiors of this former art school, you can already see the lush greenery outside. The apartment comes with its own small patio garden and a shared courtyard garden.
A Scandinavian apartment has a long terrace that spans the entire width of the apartment. The patio seamlessly flows into the building’s lush courtyard garden.
In the small garden of a London home, sandstone flagstones are flanked by beds of flowers and herbs, and a climbing rose weaves over an arch.
A Tulum Airbnb designed by Terreo Studio features a patio surrounded by towering palm trees and a roof terrace with a swimming pool.
Sprawling across roughly 2,400 m², the grounds of a luxurious Dutch home unfold as a series of thoughtfully planned outdoor rooms, including a large treehouse.
The garden of a Victorian townhouse was designed by landscape architect Tom Massey and is a lush haven of biodiversity. Concrete beds brim with ferns, evergreens, and grasses, creating a private sanctuary that evolves with the seasons.
A pink villa in Sweden features several terraces and a garden overlooking Lake Mälaren. The garden is a sanctuary of its own. Majestic lime trees shade carefully composed plantings, while paved paths weave through grounds framed by dramatic rock formations.
The gardens of this English cottage have been designed as a sequence of enchanting “rooms.” At the front, roses and geraniums soften the approach, while wisteria climbs the house. Behind, borders overflow with irises, peonies, foxgloves, and ferns.
Behind a Camden Square townhouse lies a lush garden. Designed with both beauty and function in mind, the landscape includes fig and plum trees, climbing roses, hydrangeas, a sculptural Mediterranean fan palm, and an elegant acer.
A studio apartment with a garden is not something you see every day. But this 1930s studio apartment in Stockholm has its own private oasis overlooking Lake Mälaren.
The resort-like grounds at Aaron Paul’s Los Feliz home are nothing short of magical. Meandering paths reveal a freeform pool, a cold plunge, an outdoor amphitheater, a fireplace, a scenic fire pit, and cascading water features that lead to a koi pond.
Multiple flat pads, patios, and hidden garden nooks invite both grand entertaining and quiet retreat, all framed by lush plantings and sweeping views that stretch across the city.
The garden of a renovated 1920s villa is a magnificent space, bordered by large trees, which creates a super private atmosphere. There is a large swimming pool and multiple patios.
The grounds of Peary Homestead in the Hudson Valley unfold like a series of garden rooms, each one with its own mood and rhythm. There is a trumpet-vine pergola that is perfect for outdoor dining, a greenhouse with a fenced cutting garden, a pool framed by lotus gardens, and trellised raspberry bushes.
A nice outdoor space doesn’t have to be big. This small balcony at a London apartment shows just that.
The garden at a Portuguese villa is inspired by Moroccan riads; it is a walled sanctuary of greenery with banana and lemon trees, tiled terraces, and a serene pool edged by sun-warmed stone.
The courtyard terrace of an English home is paved with flagstones and mottled Suffolk pamment tiles. Beyond this, there is a garden with raised herbaceous borders, climbing flowers, and productive fruit trees.
Old flower beds line the path in the garden of a Swedish country home, filled with traditional plants such as boxwood, peonies, irises, daylilies, imperial crowns, mallows, and heritage roses. In spring, bulbs bloom in abundance, and pearl hyacinths carpet the ground in blue.
Lilacs form a near-arbor at the front, and the entrance is flanked by two century-old pear trees. Wildflowers, comfrey, and blue fireweed feed the bees, while daisies and other meadow flowers bloom until midsummer on the slope down to the private bathing jetty.
An olive-green metal staircase, wrapped in jasmine, leads you to the garden of an English maisonette home. The courtyard garden features David Austin roses, honeysuckle, and jasmine. There is a raised terrace with terracotta checkerboard tiles, which is perfect for a large lounge sofa.
The grounds of a 16th-century farmhouse in England feature a wildflower meadow, an orchard, a vegetable garden, a cut-flower patch, and colorful, manicured sections.
A black and white Primrose Hills mews house features a magnificent roof terrace built from slatted timber birch boards, with a built-in bench, a potting shed, a charming dining spot, and lots of plants.
The garden and the surrounding nature at a preserved Swedish farmhouse form a green unit around the farm buildings, and large jasmine and lilac bushes grow here. Next to the main building stands a nursing tree, an ash, which is approximately 200–250 years old.
The grounds surrounding a medieval English house feature a series of garden areas of various designs and a covered terrace.
The garden of a former Swedish summerhouse is a green oasis with lush garden rooms, winding paths, and stately century-old trees that provide character and shade during hot summer days. There is a harmonious mix of perennials, fruit trees, berry bushes, and trellises that create a lush and vibrant environment all year round.
A unique house in London features a lush garden with a brick patio that forms a central seating area amid the bamboo, fatsia, and grasses.
A beautiful garden surrounds an Arts and Crafts house in Scotland on four sides. Recently, the original landscaping scheme was excavated by the gardener, Luis Buitrago, and several romantic little pathways and hidden seating areas were uncovered.
The private walled garden of a Victorian townhouse was designed by award-winning garden designer Adolfo Harrison. The walls have been newly built from reclaimed London stock brick, and reclaimed Yorkstone has been used for the terrace.
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