Do you love entertaining family and friends with lavish dinners, exciting game nights, and BBQ stations around a cozy fire pit? In that case, having a backyard opens up innumerable opportunities to create an ambient outdoor entertaining space. Most homeowners fail to realize the significance of a backyard, reducing this precious square footage to an ugly dump.
Utilizing your backyard will extend your living space, allowing you to enjoy every nook and cranny of your property’s square footage. Moreover, backyard transformations are an excellent way to boost your home’s market value. Roughly speaking, even low-key garden landscaping can elevate your property’s value by a whopping 10%.
Creating an outdoor kitchen, an elevated deck with seating space, a pergola, or a BBQ station will work wonders. These transformations will boost your life quality alongside increasing the market value and appeal of your home. There are several ideas to explore while undertaking backyard renovations, but we advise prioritizing your lifestyle and utility.
Below, we’ll explore some amazing ideas to transform and make the most of your backyard.
A BBQ Station with a Fire Pit
A BBQ station with a cozy fire pit is a stellar idea to transform your backyard into a year-round entertaining space. Whether summer, spring, fall, or winter, your BBQ station will serve as an inviting nook to share food and laughter. You can explore multiple designs and ideas, such as a built-in fireplace with a brick-surrounded grill station.
Portable fire pits are all the rage for their ease of accessibility and multi-functionality. But if you seek an exquisite appeal, a built-in fireplace with seating space would prove ideal. Setting up a BBQ station requires extensive planning with safety considerations and robust fire barriers. We strongly advise investing in must have Big Green accessories for your grill to maximize functionality and safety.
For instance, heat-resistant gloves woven with aramid fibers protect your fingers while searing the meat. A refillable butane charcoal ignite is a must-have to prevent fire hazards and innovate your grilling technique. Elevate your BBQ station with exquisitely crafted wooden tables – we recommend Acacia hardwood for its heat and humidity-resistant properties.
Give your BBQ station a festive and warm vibe by adding ambient lighting around the seating space and fire pit. The best thing about a BBQ and fire pit area is the design’s blending ability, making it ideal for incorporating multiple elements. For instance, you can infuse this idea with a deck, a wooden pergola, or a hot tub.
Build an Enchanting Pergola
Give your backyard a resort-like transformation with a gorgeous pergola featuring tasteful furniture and festive lighting. A pergola is an excellent idea to give your backyard a glamorous makeover and create a functional sunbathing spot. Aside from entertaining, it’s great to soak up the winter sun and shield yourself from the summer rays. This way, you can spend more time outdoors, connecting with mother nature and inhaling fresh air.
A pergola will give your backyard an efficient and luxurious seating space, leaving ample square footage for garden beds and plants. If you’re comfortable with axes and hammers, you can take the DIY route with premium-grade hardwood. It’s important to invest in sturdy, pressure-treated wood that is resistant to heat and humidity. Redwood, pine, western red cedar, and tropical hardwood are ideal for constructing an appealing wooden structure.
Be sure to create ample shade to block the harsh UV rays of the sun. We advise adding tulle curtains and heaps of plants to create a breezy and refreshing atmosphere. You can entwine the pergola with a garden arbor to elevate the enchantment of your backyard. A classic Victorian-era garden arch, quite easy to construct for DIYers, will divide your backyard into a garden and seating space. Consider making a stone walkway or a trellis leading up to your pergola.
An Outdoor Kitchen
Have you always dreamt of an outdoor kitchen with an adjoining herb and vegetable garden? Millions share this dream, and contrary to popular opinion, one need not spend a fortune on this idea. Setting an outdoor kitchen makes hosting large groups incredibly manageable and fun with a delightful open-air space.
The idea is to create an outdoor kitchen with a herb garden and a patio with open-air or shared seating space. When planning the amenities and equipment, focus on the features your indoor kitchen lacks. Or perhaps, you’d like to make some additions that you can’t incorporate into your indoor kitchen.
For instance, an open-air kitchen is ideal for setting up a brick oven, an open-fire grill, and a rotisserie. You can furnish the patio with a long, rustic wooden table and comfortable chairs decorated with colorful cushions. Cover the kitchen space with a wooden pavilion or an awning to make it functional year-round.
An Elevated Deck
Suppose you’re looking for a budget-friendly and low-key backyard makeover idea for a relatively smaller space. In that case, consider building a slightly elevated deck or patio. A wooden deck or a stone-crafted patio will give your backyard a luxurious and inviting finish.
You can furnish the deck with comfortable sofas, floor cushions, and lounge chairs with waterproof awnings. DIYers can easily construct a platform deck inches above the ground without digging deep into their pockets.
The deck’s appeal depends less on the construction and more on the decoration and furnishing. If you want to make it comfortable and functional, furnish it as a space where you can entertain and lounge. Spruce it with rich colors and textures, and add glittery fairy lights and decorative planters with fragrant flowers and air-purifying plants.
A Fragrant Garden
No space is too less to go entirely wasted. Residential square footage is far too expensive and precious to neglect. Suppose your backyard is too small to host a deck or create a seating space. In that case, you can explore garden landscaping ideas to plant some flower beds and place decorative planters.
A bed of colorful roses is all it takes to spruce up the backyard. You can always make space for a lovely swing to enjoy the ambiance of your garden.
Final Thoughts
We advise approaching this project with extensive research and planning. Before you set your heart on a makeover idea, familiarize yourself with raw materials and construction costs. If you have an expansive backyard, consider enlisting the support of an architect or landscaper to polish your vision. DIYers are strongly advised to prioritize safety, especially when constructing a BBQ station and performing electric wiring.
