20 Outdoor Essentials to Create Your Dream Backyard—All Under $100

Gardens can do wonders to our well-being and it’s scientifically proven that people who have them live better lives. If you are one of those lucky people, and have the privilege to live in a house with a wonderful garden then you should definitely spend some quality time on its decoration and do create some fabulous landscapes that you will enjoy even more. In this article you are going to see 19 Stunning Garden Pathways That You Can Make On Your Own with ease and without having to ask a professional for help.

Have you ever dreamt of having a secret clubhouse in the trees, where you could hide and play with your friends? Are your kids insisting you to build one right there in your backyard because they want some adventure?

Greatest Mother's Day present ever — was building a waterfall in our backyard together with my son. Thanks also go to another older son who contributed a few heavier rocks as well, and my hubby who was in charge of hooking up the plumbing aspects and critiquing as we went along.

Tall Canna Lily Varieties are a must have if you want to add a drama to the landscape. Keep on reading to choose the best type and also find details on How Tall Do Cana Lillies Grow!

The front door or the porch are the very first elements of a home that come into play for welcoming one and all, and that’s why they must be appealing and of course, beautiful to look at. But over the years, things seem to lose their curb appeal and get all worn out and old. However, just a few steps of creative makeover can add new life to the same. Here are 25 Marvelous Curb Appeal Ideas That Can Rejuvenate Your Home With Gorgeousness.

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From floors to bathrooms and bedrooms, there are so many places that can get dirty in the home. But one of the spaces we rarely talk about is the inside of the microwave. After all, it’s pretty easy to hide microwave messes. Once the door is shut, no one notices until they need to use the microwave again, and how often do guests use your microwave, anyway?

While you might not have quite as much sourdough starter sitting around the kitchen as you did in 2020 (when making a loaf from scratch was the ultimate quarantine hobby), maybe it’s time to reignite your long-lost bread baking passion. And no, this isn’t just nostalgia talking.

When Rashana Zaklit, the Hospitality Studio director at Gensler, a global architecture firm, looked at her Oakland courtyard, she had a vision: “Having an outdoor area for movie nights has always been a dream of mine from the moment we bought the house,” she says, adding that she imagined a space that took its design and planting cues from chic hotels in places like Napa Valley. 

The day I meet David Godshall, one of the founding members of the progressive landscape architecture firm known as Terremoto, I climb the concrete steps outside his home in East Los Angeles, open a worn hinged gate, and see his garden for the first time. What I find is not quite what I was expecting, yet it makes perfect sense. Rather than the composed plants and austere rigor of the poolside landscaping Terremoto designed for actor Mandy Moore, for example, Godshall’s own garden is a tangle of mostly native and low-water plants, placed in a way that seemed haphazard but that the plants seemed to love. A dirt path is surrounded by bursts of unruly pitcher sage, sprawling California buckwheat, and Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’, all flourishing under the canopy of a Western sycamore. Cross-sawn timber planks from fallen local trees that otherwise would’ve been pulped weave through the yard like mini-bridges for his kids to play on. Raised beds tumble down the slope. A fashionable composter (yes, there is such a thing) sits under the eaves of a house that’s been painted black. Meanwhile, in one corner, a clawfoot cast- iron bathtub sits on a humble wood-plank base. This, I find out later, is where Godshall likes to bathe. 

Grant Almquist lives in a landmark. His bungalow is part of a compound known as Casa Blanca, which was built by the Kellogg family in the ’30s in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and later turned into a resort in 1958. It just so happens that Almquist’s casita was once the pool cabana, while neighbors live in the former library, restaurant, and gift shop.

Pallets are cheap and can be used in a lot of ways to make so many interesting items. Here are some Crazy Things You Can Make with Pallets in Your Home!