The backyard is one of the most underutilized areas of any homes. By simply making a few key alterations you can highlight the assets that you already have, while adding a layer of depth previously untapped.

1. Decorating Tips for Your Backyard

2. Add Lights
• Adding lights to an area is perhaps one of the simplest
ways of creating ambience.
• Consider using small light providing sources to highlight
specific areas of your yard.
• The goal is not to flood the yard, but to enhance it.

3. Create Pathways
• Pathways in the backyard serve a dual function. That of
releasing your creativity and of creating flow.
• Really, any sort of solid material can be used to create a
beautiful path. How you place them is the creativity.
• Pathways also help to highlight specific areas of the yard.

4. Be Creative with Storage
• In every yard are certain items which must be there. The question
arises however on how to hide them.
• A garden hose is a great example. You need it to keep your plants
alive, but what to do when its not in use?
• Consider building attractive storage structures like a storage bench.

5. Add Color
• A bit of color can do wonders to an area. Don’t overdo it,
but rather be thoughtful about the placement.
• Colored cloths and pillows are a great and inexpensive
way to create a theme color.
• During the year update your colors to match the season.

6. Blend the Patio With the Indoors
• Creating a seamless experience from indoors to outdoors is
a good way to utilize your backyard.
• When someone can flow from the inside to the outside
easily you have done well.
• French doors and patios are a creative and pleasant
looking way of doing this. Look into big windows as well.

7. Create a Kitchen Outdoors
• It may sound strange, but doing your cooking and dishwashing
outdoors is the latest thing.
• There’s something neat about “living” outside part of the day.
• This definitely requires a larger financial commitment than other
ideas, but if you can afford to do it, then do.

8. Add a Table or Umbrella in the Yard
• Often times the grassy area of a yard goes unutilized.
Unfortunately that means everyone bunches in one place.
• By adding some Outdoor Furniture to the middle of the yard,
you encourage people to use them.
• A picnic table also promotes your family spending time outside.

9. Get a Pet Duck
• All right, this may sound a bit out there, but a single duck can
add a lot of character to a yard.
• Not only are they fun to watch, but they are calming as well.
• Be aware however that they are messy. You will need to
spend time creating a living area in the corner of the yard

10. It’s Your Yard… Enjoy it!
• Your backyard can be one of the most beautiful parts of your
house. Take time to consider what you can do.
• A lot can be done by simply highlighting areas that are already
built up nicely. Take advantage of this.
• If you have the money to do anything, then the sky is the limit.
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