A few summers ago, I got genuinely excited about a big vegetable garden and an elaborate flower bed layout I’d seen online, and by midsummer, between work and two kids’
When we first started shopping for some kind of shade structure for our patio, I genuinely thought pergola and gazebo were just two different words for the same basic thing.
For the longest time, our landscaping consisted of whatever the builder had planted a decade earlier and whatever had managed to survive our neglect since, a strip of tired shrubs
For years, our outdoor furniture came out every May and got dragged back into the garage every October, and the backyard essentially closed for business the second the weather turned.
The first fire pit we ever had was a cheap portable steel bowl set directly on our wooden deck, and it wasn’t until I noticed the scorch marks forming underneath
When I first started looking into building an outdoor kitchen, I assumed it was basically just buying a nice grill and maybe a small side table to go with it.
My first set of outdoor furniture was a cheap resin patio set that looked perfectly fine in the store and lasted exactly one humid summer before it started cracking and
Our backyard is barely bigger than a two-car garage, and for the first year we lived here, I genuinely believed there wasn’t much to be done with it beyond mowing
For the first two summers in our house, our backyard was basically just grass and a plastic patio set left behind by the previous owners. We kept saying we’d get
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