The yard or garden of a home is a wonderful feature to have that adds property value to the house, but it often goes overlooked and underused.
Gardens should be more than a picturesque space with a well-mown lawn; they should be a part of the home, and a living space. Here is a look at a few ways to take the inside to the outside and get more from your garden.
Take Your Living Room Outside
Every garden needs a lounging area. You can soak up some sun and entertain friends and family while the kids play in the yard. Without somewhere to sit and relax you will not make the most of your garden.
These outdoor chairs are cheap but high-quality, letting you make an outdoor seating area without breaking the bank. This simple addition is a great start to taking the indoors outside, but this is just the beginning. Outdoor chairs can form the backbone of your exterior design makeover.
Late Night Entertainment
Cool summer nights in the garden, underneath the stars, are a special time and place. If you don’t have some heat or light, the night in the garden will not last for very long.
A fire pit solves these problems and brings the soothing warmth of a fireplace outside to help you enjoy the cool summer evenings for longer. It is easy to build one yourself if you are handy with some power tools and a shovel, but you can buy pre-built and ready-to-rock fire pits if you want to save yourself some hard yard work.
Enjoy the Finest Dining in the Outdoors
Eating outside is one of the most popular ways to enjoy a garden if you have the right furniture. You can bring the dining room outside with a folding outdoor table and some chairs from your lounging space.
Children love eating their meals outside in the sun, or on a cool evening as it sets. This is a great way to get more use from your garden and create a space for entertaining friends and relatives when the weather lets you.
Add an Outdoor Kitchen
Sometimes, eating outdoors just isn’t enough; you need to cook there too. Outdoor kitchens are one of the biggest trends in home improvement today, and it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money either.
For something to cook on, a barbeque will do just fine, and you probably already have one. Pizza ovens are a popular addition, and you can buy them at a reasonable enough price or build your own. Make sure you add some storage for cooking equipment and food. Planting an herb garden close by is a clever idea, giving you easy access to fresh herbs while you cook.
Choose any one or two of these exterior design ideas and you will be surprised at how much more time you and your family spend in the garden. Do all of them, and you may start to forget what indoor life was like.
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