Back Porch Storage Ideas

Name: Jeffrey D.Location: Indianapolis, IndianaSize: 220 square feet (including garden) Your Favorite Thing About Your Outdoor Space: Our favorite thing about our backyard is that it is completely transformable. We eat breakfast and dinner out there as often as possible. We also fold up our table and make fires in our contained fire pit in the colder months. At one point we threw a dinner party and seated 18 people with two rows of chairs down a combination of rectangle card tables.

Helen Yemm answers your gardening questions.

Sometimes being a designer means solving a mystery. I’d like to say that clients’ desire for structures and elements to be incorporated into their garden’s design was consistent …

So sorry to keep you all in suspense for so long (ha!) ;) I'm sure you're all dying to find out how the hammock stand turned out, right?! Well, when I left off last we were waiting out the rain.... and although we tried to keep the holes from filling up with water by placing plastic tarps around the poles and weighting them down to the ground, this unfortunately did not keep them completely water-free. So after dipping the water out of the holes with plastic cups we were back on track! The…

Early in February I shot a few pictures of this garden and promised a follow-up once it was in Summer mode. Well it’s only late April but there are already signs of the owners taking the public space (driveway) and making it private, all they needed was a little Bamboo! Happy heathy Bamboo... Love the knobby canes… A few more pictures of this garden… Same day, same walk, different house. I suddenly felt that I’d ended up in the middle of some strange experiment, an alien landing pad maybe…

Happy Friday friends! It's a hot and sunny day here in NC & the hubs has off from work... so that means we are going to be out and about trying to enjoy one of our last summers here. Since I am not a fan of the heat & this weekend it's in the triple digits, this 'fun' will take place either at a beach where I can cool off, a pool, or in some nice AC... who's with me though? Anyways I had so many favorites this week but I won't bore you with all of them, here are

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161 Likes, 15 Comments - Home in the Hamptons (@homeinthehamptons_) on Instagram: “Happy weekend everyone! I'd so love to be swinging on one of these today with a g&t in hand!…”

A DIY tutorial for a chevron shaped privacy wall for a deck or patio; includes a supply and cut list and this one was finished for about $150!

Make your own DIY pallet fence.

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What's more soothing than a water fountain? A DIY version that won't break the bank.