How To Get Your Yard Ready For The Summer
Long summer days mean firing up the grill and enjoying al fresco meals with family, neighbors and friends. You’ll also be savoring morning coffee and sipping tasty evening cocktails on the deck. However, getting the most of your outdoor living environment will involve some preparation. Here are several steps that you can take that will ensure that you’ll enjoy the long, lazy days of summer to the utmost.
Wage a War on Outdoor Clutter
Because yard clutter can significantly impact the ambiance of your outdoor living space in a negative way, slay yard clutter by giving it a place to live. An attractive outbuilding can house your yard tools so that they’ll be out of everyone’s way when it comes time to engage in outdoor leisure activities. Storage sheds rent to own opportunities exist in all communities.
Extend Your Backyard Fun With Outdoor Lighting
If you’re entertaining outdoors and want to dance under the stars until the early morning dew begins to sparkle on the grass, the right outdoor lighting can softly enhance the light from the moon and the stars just enough to add the warm shimmer that you need. Try energy-saving solar lights for a natural look. Outdoor lighting can also serve to emphasize dramatic landscaping as well as act as a security measure, so don’t forget to illuminate your storage shed as a deterrent to potential thieves. Back light a tangle of aromatic moonflowers cascading over a trellis for the ultimate mid-summer night’s dream with a simple stick-on solar powered light for those special nights in the garden with your romantic partner.
Get Your Outdoor Kitchen Together
All meals taste better when they’re prepared and consumed in an outdoor environment. Creating a highly functional outdoor kitchen is one of the best investments that you can make in your quality of life. After dining on perfectly grilled salmon steaks served with salads that have been freshly picked from your own garden and served with a premium Northwest pinot noir or enjoying an omelet in the fresh and fragrant morning air, you’ll prefer al fresco meals in your own back yard to the atmosphere in Earth’s most elegant restaurants. Classic, cafe-style outdoor tables and chairs will complete the natural look and feel of your patio dining area, and containers brimming with thriving flowers and culinary herbs will provide living decoration that the finest man-made art can’t match.
Summer is about vibrantly lovely flavors, sights and scents. Make your back yard into your own private paradise this year.
Casey Haslem – a 25 year old writer. Her hobbies are reading, painting and pretending she knows how to write a book. She loves meeting people and making new friends. Writing opens up a whole world of new ideas and possibilities for her.
