Decorating Tips for Your Backyard

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Decorating Tips for Your Backyard
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Add Lights

• Adding lights to an area is perhaps one of the
  simplest ways of creating ambience.
• Consider using small light providing sources to
  highlight specific areas of your yard.
• The goal is not to flood the yard, but to enhance
  it.

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Create Pathways

• Pathways in the backyard serve a dual function.
  That of releasing your creativity and of creating
  flow.
• Really, any sort of solid material can be used to
  create a beautiful path. How you place them is
  the creativity.
• Pathways also help to highlight specific areas of
  the yard.

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Be Creative with Storage

• In every yard are certain items which must be
  there. The question arises however on how to hide
  them.
• A garden hose is a great example. You need it to
  keep your plants alive, but what to do when its
  not in use?
• Consider building attractive storage structures
  like a storage bench.

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Add Color

• A bit of color can do wonders to an area. Dont
  overdo it, but rather be thoughtful about the
  placement.
• Colored cloths and pillows are a great and
  inexpensive way to create a theme color.
• During the year update your colors to match the
  season.

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Blend the Patio With the Indoors

• Creating a seamless experience from indoors to
  outdoors is a good way to utilize your backyard.
• When someone can flow from the inside to the
  outside easily you have done well.
• French doors and patios are a creative and
  pleasant looking way of doing this. Look into big
  windows as well.

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Create a Kitchen Outdoors

• It may sound strange, but doing your cooking and
  dishwashing outdoors is the latest thing.
• Theres something neat about living outside
  part of the day.
• This definitely requires a larger financial
  commitment than other ideas, but if you can
  afford to do it, then do.

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Add a Table or Umbrella in the Yard

• Often times the grassy area of a yard goes
  unutilized. Unfortunately that means everyone
  bunches in one place.
• By adding some Outdoor Furniture to the middle of
  the yard, you encourage people to use them.
• A picnic table also promotes your family spending
  time outside.

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Get a Pet Duck

• All right, this may sound a bit out there, but a
  single duck can add a lot of character to a yard.
• Not only are they fun to watch, but they are
  calming as well.
• Be aware however that they are messy. You will
  need to spend time creating a living area in the
  corner of the yard

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Its Your Yard Enjoy it!

• Your backyard can be one of the most beautiful
  parts of your house. Take time to consider what
  you can do.
• A lot can be done by simply highlighting areas
  that are already built up nicely. Take advantage
  of this.
• If you have the money to do anything, then the
  sky is the limit.
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