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With summer finally here, spend your quality time out in the sun as opposed to cramped up indoors. Our sister site DIY Life embraces the trend of creating an outdoor living space that rivals any old family room.
Tables, chairs and even a couch make any backyard seem homey. Throw in the same colorful pillows and accessories that would compliment your living room furniture.
By locating your outside living area close to your back door, you can bring guests food and drinks from the kitchen with ease.
Looking for something slightly more extreme? You can always emulate lessons learned on HGTV's new show called 'My Backyard Goes Disney,' premiering Monday, June 6 at 8PM ET/PT. Tea pot playhouses, handpowered trains, Mickey shaped pools... the possibilities are endless.
The most replicable feature of the Disney makeover would be the garden feature. Plant color blocks bold flowers – DIY Life suggests petunias and mums – to create a surprising design on bare patches of grass.
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has an online program that teaches how to turn outdoor spaces into certified wildlife habitats. Provide food, water, cover and a place for animals to raise babies -- while using green gardening practices, of course -- and you're good to go.
Two birdhouses with feeders, a hummingbird feeder and a birdbath made from a teacup and saucer literally brought Helmer's yard to life – welcoming families of bluejays and butterflies to a once forlorn patio.
Watch this DIY Life video on how to make your own birdhouse.
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By: "DimePiece" on 5/31/2011 8:10PM
Wow, that first backyard pic looks like it is on a island or something? Just bring me a Strawberry Daiquiri and I'll be cool, chillin in the cut. I'm lovin this fantasy escape in your own backyard. There are so many possibilities to your imagination. As far as the Tea pot playhouses, that is TOO CUTE! My daughter would be out there with her friends for days and probably would want to live in that tea cup, ok? I love the hand powered trains, Mickey shaped pools, it looks fun for the whole family. A fun little escape in your own backyard if you don't have the money to go to the Park, Disney Land, ect.. You can have a Theme Park in your own backyard. Like the article says, the possibilities are ENDLESS! I'm lovi'n it!
Now, about the garden & flower backyard experience is cool. That would be fun for the whole family learning & growing plants together. About having animals in cages in your backyard be nice, just as long you have the time and patience to take care of the pets. That too can be a learning fun experience for the whole family. I was watching on one of the networks about Tree Houses. The Tree Houses I had seen were extravagent. This one family built one for their son and looked like a little cottage house. You know they had some $$$$$? I'm afraid of heights and so is my daughter so, that wouldn't work?
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