You can't go through another summer without these must-haves.
Summer is just around the corner - and your outdoor living space must have these top 3 things.
An outdoor fire lounge.
The unmistakable sound of summer – a crackling campfire – doesn’t just need to be heard on the beach during the 4th of July. Bring the feeling of summer to your backyard every night, with a firepit as the perfect focal point in your backyard.
But it doesn’t just have to be about the fire. Trending now are conversation areas, fanning out around the centered firepit. These can be built-in seating in a depressed section or benches, chairs and side tables in a circle – which will take you straight to that safari lodge.
An outdoor fire lengthens the time you can spend enjoying your backyard, as well, giving you more time in the spring and autumn to enjoy the fresh air around a warm centerpiece.
Grow your own.
Skip the grocery store or farmer’s market – start your own backyard fruit + vegetable garden.
Keep it simple with a few plant bed rows and gravel walkways or hire an expert to do it up properly. In an article from Sunset.com, they are calling at-home vegetable gardens “Sowing Sanity”, with gardening great for mental health and well-being.
Keep your cool, natural.
Swap the chemicals in your summer pool with a plant and a biological filtration systems instead to purify water and keep it sparkling.
Essentially, you’re creating your very own fresh water swimming hole (minus the frogs and mud) for an at-home pool that cools you off and takes way less work than the traditional chemical or saltwater pools.
Next week we’ll go through favorite outdoor landscaping design pins.
