A backyard is great when it’s a space you want to spend time in alone or with family and friends. Avoiding your outdoor space is a sign that there is room to create a welcoming area. Some of the following touches can be added on your own while others can be constructed and installed by a landscape designer. Your backyard oasis is not far away.
1. Install a Patio
It doesn’t matter how little green space you may have in your backyard, it is possible to add a patio, extend your living space, and have an outdoor room in which to gather. Patios can be standalone or added onto a deck or pool decking. They can be enhanced with a fire pit or fireplace or built-in seating. Add all-weather patio furniture and this setting will be ideal for day and night, eating and resting, relaxing and celebrating.
2. Add Water Features
The sound of running water is soothing and calming and it’s a given when your goal is to create a backyard oasis. Add a pond, waterfall, waterwall, stream, pool scuppers, fountain, or bubblers. These water features can be implemented into existing landscaping, enhance the design of a pool, or stand alone as a unique decoration.
3. Build a Fire Pit
Fire pits are added to backyards for beauty, cooking, warmth, and gentle lighting. A fire pit is a natural gathering place that delivers comfort and ambiance, particularly to night festivities. A square fire pit is a great contrast to soft and round shapes elsewhere, like landscaped plants or trees, while a circular pit encourages conversation and is a great shape for built-in seating.
4. Boost Lighting
Even the smallest additions to lighting enhance ambiance, whether you add soft lights to walkways and steps for safety, illuminate significant features like a pool or fire pit so no one falls into them, or create a well-lit prep area for an outdoor kitchen. Wall-mounted lights, dimmable lamps, strung-up bistro lights, and solar-powered accent lamps all add to the transformation.
5. Create an Outdoor Kitchen
Whether your outdoor entertaining goal is to serve up food or drinks or both, an outdoor kitchen can be set up to grill, fire up pizzas, or serve as a bar for a staycation in your backyard. If you love to entertain or watch the game or avoid heating up the house, using every mechanism in your outdoor kitchen makes cooking fun and new again, makes entertaining easy, and simplifies clean-up. Simple meals served outside? That’s a backyard oasis.
6. Everything Else
Keep texture and color in mind as you elevate your landscaping and add components through smart furnishings or accessories, from blankets and pillows to outdoor art to colorful flowers, shrubbery, and trees. Ambiance is key, no matter the size of your outdoor space. A backyard oasis can be created just about anywhere.
Develop the backyard oasis that suits your lifestyle with help from the experts at Visionary Landscaping in Shelby Township, MI. Contact us schedule a consultation.
