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A #backyard is a place for your family to have fun together and spend a quality time. The backyard of the home shouldn’t be avoided and it needs proper planning to some time their when life is boring inside the house or to have party time when there is some gathering.
Having a well designed outdoor area adjacent to your main entering rooms is a great way to get more space when needed and to add value to your home. The indoor-outdoor concept is not a new idea but when you combine it with an open #floorplan, you can create a large entering area.
Whether the backyard is small or large , there are various ways to improve its looks with different items and number of things available from nature as well as in the market. By adding some beauty to your backyard , you and the visitors will enjoy spending time in your backyard. Here are five backyard ideas to get you started.
Adding lightening to your backyard :- To enjoy your backyard after the sun sets , include outdoor lightening. If you have an #outdoor #kitchen , you need good task lights or bulbs over the work area. Candle lights will give soothing effect to the atmosphere while taking dinner. For seating area you can have slow light electric lamps or wall mount down lights. Steps and walkaway should be illuminated for safety. Solar-powered accent lights or low voltage lights can also be used to make the landscape more interesting. Mix of lights will make your backyard a magical place after dark.
Add a sunroom too your backyard :- a sunroom is the perfect solution of adding #functionality , value and space to your backyard. It provides numerous sources of enjoyment and also increases the value and looks of your backyard. When adding a porch enclosure , you have many options from a screen room to four-season #sunroom. The selection depends on your usage. Sunroom and four-season rooms are walled with glass and roofed with glass too. The room you create by attaching screens all around your deck or patio will give you the most intimacy with the beauty surrounding you. Insects will stay out but the breeze and natural ambiance will remain unhindered.
Creating green area :- creating garden area is a great way to add an element of beauty to your backyard. If you donot want to work on making your entire yard a private paradise, take one corner and transform it into a beautiful garden. Look for evergreen varieties. You can also find containers and plants to fit any landscape style.
Seating area :- There are so many people who wants to add functions to their backyard. That is why the need to add seating area arises in the backyard. While adding seating area to your backyard you must consider the size and the right place to choose for seating. Seating can be added in numerous ways. You can add beautiful set of chairs and tables. Seating area should also include dinning so that if need arises people can have their meals too.
Overall landscaping :- It is always said that first impression is the last impression. You must have a look on overall #landscaping of your backyard and see what needs to be changed or improved. Add colors to your backyard. Work on plants. Grow the plants which ad beautiful colors to the environment and for this you can always consult your nearest nursery. You can always add water pond or water fall to your backyard area if there is a space available.
When we moved into this house, there was a nice patio in the backyard. Unfortunately, it was poorly built and after a couple of years was sagging and full of weeds. I decided to rebuild it and doing so was a huge amount of work. I dug a pit, filled it with gravel, tamped that down, added weedcloth, then fine sand on top of that, then finally the pavers. I reused the pavers from the old patio but changed the design from a red patio with a white edge to a more random pattern. I like to tell people that the stones represent numbers and that there is a binary coded message written into the patio. I designed this firepit to be built into the patio. It is a very simple contruction featuring two angle iron frames that hold the side stones and prevent them from collapsing.
When the patio was finished, I built this stone wall on two sides of it to replace the junk wood panels that were holding up the raised plant beds. It is the perfect height to sit on. Whoever had built these beds had buried the remnants of an old shed within it along with a whole lot of garbage. It was a very unpleasant surprise.
Pattern:Backyard Leaves designed by Annie Modesitt
Pattern Source:Scarf Style by Pam Allen
Yarn: Malabrigo Merino Worsted in Lettuce, 165 g (355 yards)
Size: 78” long by almost 5” wide
Needles: Size US8 Denise circular needle
Here is my newest scarf and our final Malabrigo March knit at Kathryn Ivy. I'm sad to see the month over with, and I wish I had created as many Malabrigo knits as Alice.
One of my wife's flowers in our backyard. This is the first shot after my wreck I have been able to do. I was checking out my equipment after the wreck to make sure everything was working right. Luckily the Canon 40D, G9 and all my lenses seem unharmed (unlike me). 3 shot HDR (-2/0/+2) developed in Photomatix Pro and finished in Topaz lab and PS CS4.
A female Sharp-shinned hawk ( Accipiter striatus) with an American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) in its talons. Sharp-shinned hawks usually stick to wooded areas except in winter, when they occasionally stray to backyard bird feeders for an easy meal, as seen here. After mis-identifying it as a Merlin I was set straight by astute Fickr viewers and one of my ornithologist colleagues.
Backyard beauty . . . it will last until the temperatures go above freezing again . . .
Please . . . they will go above freezing again . . .
Aug. 14, 2023: Backyard Birds
I took many images of birds in our backyard feeder this morning using a Panasonic Lumix FZ300, built around 2015. It is a 12-megapixel camera with a 1/2.3 sensor. Images are usually a little grainy, but I ran these three through the new Lightroom Denoise Reduction feature this time - a big difference. It gives this older camera a new life!
We have a pair of Morning Doves that love to take over the bird feeder, forcing the dozen House Finches to make room.