The backyard should be a place to relax, enjoy yourself, and create memories with your friends and family. After all, it’s the one place on earth that’s all yours to enjoy. Creating an outdoor sanctuary in your backyard is easier than you think. Here are some fabulous ideas to create distinct spaces in your backyard made for lounging, relaxation, dining, and more!
How Do I Create an Outdoor Sitting Area?
Upgrading your backyard doesn’t have to be costly or time-consuming. You may already have some patio furniture on hand that you can spray paint to look good as new! However, the seating area in your backyard will likely get a lot of use, so spending a little extra money might be worth it.
Consider your budget and aesthetic when choosing the flooring for your seating area, keeping in mind the area’s eventual use and likely furnishings. Metal chairs, for example, have slender feet that require paving with tighter joints to maintain stability. You can surround your seating area with plants or structures such as fences, arbors, trellises, or screens to serve as a boundary.
Flowers in Your Outdoor Seating Area
Soften the hard edges of your outdoor seating areas with beautiful flowers from your local garden center. Silk road lilies and stained glass hostas are lovely fragrant options that will leave your space smelling fresh and natural. Although delicate in appearance, these varieties can survive in hardiness zones between 3 and 8, making them perfectly tolerable for North Dakota climate conditions.
How Do I Build a Relaxation Area?
Bring the style and comforts of your home interior to your outdoor living room with a designated relaxation area. Whether you locate it next to your pool, in your garden, on your deck, or under an umbrella, your relaxation area should be where you go to forget everything else and unwind. Things to include in your relaxation space include:
1. Comfortable seating. Your outdoor seating and dining area is one thing, but a deep seating set, lounge chairs, loungers, or chaise lounges in your relaxation space will allow you to stretch out and relax.
2. The sound of trickling water. Running water can calm your brain at a neurological level! Koi ponds, water walls, fountains, water gardens, and waterfalls are all great ways to incorporate this into your landscape.
3. Views. No matter how small, every backyard has that spot that stands out from the rest. Consider which spot of your backyard makes you feel the most at ease, and plan your relaxation area there.
4. Calming plants. Carefully planned and selected plants that look natural in their setting can really set a theme or mood. For a calming visual effect, plant multiple flowers of the same color.
5. Relaxing decor. String lights, pottery, hanging lanterns, whatever brings your mind a calming effect. Here are our favorite ways to use pottery as decor in our outdoor spaces.
How Do I Build an Entertainment Area?
When you hear “backyard play area,” you likely assume splash pads, sandboxes, and kiddie pools. But who says adults don’t need these leisure spots in their backyard too? Simply incorporating a built-in bar, fire pit, pergola, hammock, or all of these options combined are easy and fun ways to turn up the vibe in your outdoor space.
Privacy Wall Ideas
Creating outdoor rooms in your backyard starts with privacy. Consider using large outdoor planters, planting trees along your property, building a living wall, installing a privacy screen, or hanging outdoor curtains outside your patio to achieve the privacy you want in your outdoor space. With a little privacy, you can enjoy your yard exactly how you want.
Do you want to create outdoor rooms in your backyard without breaking the bank? Talk to our gardening experts at Plant Perfect in Bismarck, North Dakota, today about creating the perfect backyard atmosphere for you.