Frogcore Is the Happy Summer Trend You Need for Your Home

#frogcore decor works great inside or out. Find ideas for incorporating frogs and froggy greens into your garden or your home.

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Move Aside Owl, the Frog Is the Newest Home and Outdoor Decor Motif

Interior design has often had a love affair with animals: Remember the llama? Birds, butterflies and foxes have all had their time in the home decor sun. But nothing evokes a retro '70s vibe like the frog, making it the perfect motif for our '70s-inspired present design moment. (Jim Henson's beloved frog creation, Kermit, released his amphibious hit "Bein' Green" in 1970 on Sesame Street.) Popping up, naturally, in children's rooms, the frog is also a natural in garden settings. Frog sculptures and statuary are a great way to ornament your garden space. But real frogs can be a wonderful way to add some nature to your space too: create a pond where they will want to gather, or even a toad house that will help you keep pests at bay with some help from Mother Nature. Read on for some of our ideas for bringing a little frogcore to your home, both inside and out.

Learn More: A Guide to Frogs and Toads

Attract Toads With a DIY Toad House

Want a natural way to rid your garden of pests? Invite toads to a toad house, something you can easily create for your garden to welcome these delightful creatures to stay awhile. At its simplest, a toad house is a shelter where toads may lounge, protected from the sun and potential predators. Left to fend for themselves, toads will seek out fallen branches, leaf piles or other spots with nearby access to water and food. Once they have settled on a home, they will return year after year to patrol the yard, gobbling up garden pests like grubs, slugs and insects.

Watch this video on how to create your own DIY toad house.

Learn More: How to Create a Toad House

Some Fanciful Frog Wallpaper

This charming frog-centric wallpaper from Milton and King, called Frog In a Pond, would be a delightful addition to a child's room, a mudroom or even a powder room. The fanciful wallpaper includes a "frog prince" hidden within the design.

Get Ready for Halloween (or Just Indulge Your Froggy Love Right Now)

There's no better time to strut your #frogcore than Halloween. Find out how to create this adorable frog costume for trick-or-treating, a school play or dress-up time.

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Create a Water Garden to Attract Frogs to Your Yard

Any water garden design creates a watery ecosystem. Wildlife, including birds, insects — frogs! — and turtles will likely visit your water garden and may set up house. Find out how to create your own watery backyard oasis here.

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Frog Ponds Come in All Shapes and Sizes

This Virginia home boasts a gorgeous frog pond with lily pads surrounded by a stone patio.

A Fancy Frog Chandelier

Have a frog-loving child? This hand-painted frog chandelier adds a dose of whimsy and fun to any room.

Create Some Whimsical Nursery Decor With a Frog Motif

Frogcore fans can indulge their love for all things lime green and web-footed with a bright and cheery nursery design like this one centered on the frog.

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Frog-Green Subway Tile

With neon brights making such a splash in fashion, it's no surprise that bright green, yellow and pink are also at play in home interiors. Bring the #frogcore look inside by adding brightness to your kitchen. This contemporary kitchen features turquoise cabinets and a stunning lime-green subway tile backsplash.

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Take a Design Cue From This Tree Frog

Bring some nature-made brights into your home inspired by our amphibious friends.

It's So Easy Being Green

Entryways are the first impression of any home, and this bright and colorful foyer with a beckoning lime-green front door is a fun welcome to the home. Yellow wallpaper adds a vintage feel to the space, as well as the retro photograph.

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Add Just a Touch of Green

Not quite ready for a big green accent in your home? Try easing into #frogcore with the addition of a lime-green bench.

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This Red-Eyed Tree Frog Is a Design Trendsetter

A colorful red-eyed tree frog perches on a vine. In order to avoid predators, these frogs cover up their blue-colored sides with their legs to blend in with their lush, green surroundings.

Green Is a Happy Color That Brings the Outside In

Colors including green, blue and some neon brights define this Atlanta bungalow. This low-slung, cozy sofa is the Quilton Sofa in Mode Bonsai from Design Within Reach.

Frog Details Spell Delight in Any Garden

This fountain ornamented by a small frog, who looks poised to leap into the water, brings an unconventional frogcore moment to this charming garden.

Go Big With Frogcore

Combined with a gorgeous array of colorful plants and flowers, this copper frog sculpture welcomes guests to this Atlanta home. Atlanta artist Beau Smith created his copper frogs for the Atlanta Botanical Garden and for a number of public and private spaces over the course of his frog-making career.

Tour a Southern sculpture garden where frog sculpture makes a cameo appearance.

You Can't Go Wrong With Some Frog Statuary

A frog statue makes an eye-catching focal point in a perennial border with a white color theme. Plants include silvery-white lamb’s ears and white-and-green-striped ribbon grass.

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A metal frog sculpture offers a nice surprise tucked into a perennial bed.

You Don't Need a Ton of Space for Some Froggy Garden Art

Even if you just have some containers on your balcony, there's always an opportunity to sneak in some frog garden art for a touch of whimsy.

Proof That Even the Smallest Space Benefits From Some #Frogcore

This miniature indoor water garden shows how even apartment dwellers can reap the rewards of a little frogcore.

Plant Junglescapes Perfect for Frogcore

Is it any wonder frogcore is a thing when so many of us are trying to create tropical plant junglescapes indoors and out?

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Add a dose of green and present a happy front-door welcome to guests. A mother-in-law's tongue plant in a colorful frog planter made in Mexico adds a touch of whimsy and garden love to the front entrance of this Atlanta home.

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