Outdoor
Ranch House Redo | A Little Backyard Update
The Lowe’s Creative Ideas Network project for July was creating outdoor art, so I figured we’d work on a little corner of the backyard and dress it up a little bit.
We forgot to take before pics, whoops, but here’s a Vine video of this section of the backyard right after we moved in. You can see the area we where we took out a couple of bushes, a tree and even part of the lawn. A LOT of work, mostly done by the Mr, of course!
The Mr is a very good gardener and it was too bad that between the move and settling in…building veggie beds kind of fell by the wayside. We finally got some in, but probably a little to late to reap much summer harvest. We put in three 3’x3′ raised veggie beds, very similar to these. And I couldn’t resist these lonely heirlooms at Lowe’s, there were only a few tomato plants left. I insisted on adopting two of them 😉 We used these square tomato cages as well; they tie in with the square theme we having going on.
We bought a couple of these fun, modern hanging planters to decorate the fence behind the planters. We planted our poor, slightly dehydrated and squirrel-munched strawberry plants in the bottom planters (hopefully I’ll get to eat the strawberries now instead of the squirrels???). And on the top I planted a variety of different succulents. Can’t wait until they fill in a bit!
CB2 Eclipse White Outdoor Umbrella
Serena and Lily Riviera Counter Stool
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Serena and Lily Riviera Side Chair
Pottery Barn Hampstead Teak Sectional Set
Ranch House Redo | Light It Up
We chose two different types of solar lights. A great modern-style path light that’s super affordable at less than $5 a light.
And a more focused flood light to light up our address numbers as well as a great tree in the middle of our yard.
Here’s the before image. The only light we had was the small light near the door and the lantern on the brick wall. Not too inspiring.
Pottery Barn Frog Rain-Drum Accent Table
Wisteria Interlocking Rings Stool
Restoration Hardware Vintage Light String
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