Making it look Great!

When you start thinking about your back yard one of the big things to think about is design. Our Back yards are quite varied, big ones small ones plain ones and meticulously groomed or barely groomed and everything in-between.
We all love going to a back yard that a lot of time and energy has been spent on, along with a sense of style and design and we say wow. Many though would not want it for their back yard. Why? They don’t have either the time or the money for it.
Well in this series I am going to talk about design but not a specific design, but a way of thinking about design that will help us make the right choices for us as individuals. This will help us develop our back yards in a way that will get us not only what we are really looking for but one that will fit our needs our desires and our budget.
We are going to talk about our back yards as rooms. So what do I mean? Well like we have different rooms in our house with different purposes so we can have different rooms outside. Each of these rooms will have a definable area. The “walls” may be a couple trees or some scrubs or a flower bed or hanging baskets or the railing on our deck. The room could be the deck or patio or it could be just a part of it. These rooms could be small like 8-10 sq feet or huge. Have you ever been somewhere and felt uncomfortable or lost in a yard or park because the space was so large that it made you feel uncomfortable. What we want to do here is to size our outdoor rooms to the activity we are using it for. In our house often we find a small room or large closet and make it into a room for reading. Why? Because we feel comfortable and cozy there, and we feel lost in the living room when we are there by ourselves. We want to feel comfortable where we are and we sure don’t want to feel lost in our own back yards.
So we are going to talk about how to define our rooms, what we need in the room, where the best place is to locate it, and many other things as we think about this together.
Next time we will talk about the “Entertainment room”.
So til next time keep enjoying your back yard and if you get a chance check out our furniture stores. The links are to the right.