25 affordable yard design ideas to envy all neighbors
Ideas to do something inside or outside the house with your own hands have changed dramatically lately. Online creativity and video tutorials enable homeowners to renovate or transform their modest interior into a luxurious one, even on a tight budget. We offer you some examples of affordable and low-budget backyard design options to the envy of all neighbors..
1. Courtyard lighting
Courtyard lighting
Even if someone is not familiar with the principles of using solar energy, this technology makes it possible to organize environmental lighting in the exterior of your home. First, you need to change all the light bulbs for those that store solar energy. To protect them from moisture, you need to place them in shades or in a special case if you want to hang them on a tree or on the wall of a house. In the case of using wooden frames, you need to make sure that they are safe to use..
2. Mirrors to create the illusion of space in the garden
Mirrors to create the illusion of space in the garden
Mirrors can visually enlarge the space. You can use the mirrors themselves or products with reflective elements. You can, for example, install old frames on the wall of the house with inserted mirrors instead of glass, all this can create the illusion of an expanded space.
3. Objects with a mirror surface on the lawn
Items with a mirrored surface on the lawn
All for the same purpose, expanding space, you can place a number of objects with a mirror surface of different sizes or shapes on the lawn near the house.
4. Large swing
Big swing
Another simple idea. Take some ropes, knock down the board base, and create a functional swing. The base can be made from old doors. It must be remembered that the swing must be strong and safe..
5. Flowerpots with lighting
Backlit flowerpots
Even if you are not an avid gardener, you can install several flowerpots of different sizes in your yard. In order for them to acquire the ability to glow in the dark, you need to paint them with a special paint..
6. Hammocks
Hammocks
A hammock is a good idea for decorating a recreation area in the summer. You can easily do it yourself using wooden pegs and base material. 4 pegs are driven into the ground. For the base of the hammock, an old bedspread (or other sturdy material) is used, which is attached to the pegs.
7. Homemade water track
Homemade water track
If there is a children’s slide in the garden, then you need to ensure the safety of landing when descending. To do this, you can simply organize a water slide from the tarpaulin and water spray. If no spray arm is available, the same effect can be obtained by using running water and a hose..
8. Fluorescent rings
Fluorescent rings
On long summer evenings, you can entertain yourself by playing fun, interactive and creative games in the courtyard. To do this, a tall wooden or metal pole is installed in the yard, on which you need to throw fluorescent rings.
9. Washer for feet
Foot wash
It’s nice to walk barefoot around the yard, but you shouldn’t go into the house with dirty feet. After playing or practicing in the garden, you don’t need to wash them right in the yard. A wooden frame is knocked off, covered with a moisture-resistant sealant, filled with smooth stones and installed next to the front door. Now you can wash your feet and hands and at the same time have a relaxing massage.
10. Multi-colored stones in the yard
Colored stones in the yard
Today, landscape design is not complete without massive stones of various sizes, but their smooth surface is ideal for painting. This will make it possible to decorate the garden with interesting and unusual objects, colors and shades. You can use one color or a combination of both and cute ornaments.
11. Colored chairs
Multicolored chairs
Many have one or more garden chairs in the yard, which suffer from natural phenomena or just from time to time .. They can be brought back to life, painted.
12. Flowers
Flowers
Growing brightly colored plants and flowers remains the most successful yard and garden decorating method, but it can be time consuming. Use toilet paper to plant small seeds..
13. Second life for a tree
Second life for a tree
If you had to cut down a tree, then you can make an original decoration for the yard from the trunk. For example, you can make a table or flowerpot for summer flowers by decorating it with moss..
14. Latex patio paint
Patio latex paint
Cement patio tiles often look dull and ugly. This can be corrected by using latex floor paint. In this way, it will turn out to add bright colors and protect the surface of the tiles. Better to take matte paint.
15. Light border of the yard
Light border
You can use an LED garland to lightly determine the border of the garden; it is better to set an automatic timer for turning on such a backlight. In the same way, you can highlight the border of the reservoir in the yard..
16. Functional garden table
Functional garden table
If you are interested in functional solutions, then it is worth considering the idea of organizing a beer cooler right in the middle of the garden table. This is easy to do if it is made of a material as massive as oak. You can simply cut out rectangular sections in the table surface with the help of tools and place the cooler there. Then add ice and store the beer here for a picnic.
17. Improvised shower
Improvised shower
If you want to equip an active play area in your yard, then you need to start by installing a shower using a hose attached to a tree and a ladder as a hanger for things.
18. Colorful awning
Colorful canopy
No need to purchase expensive and high-quality material to build a tent in the yard in summer. Its function is to protect from wind and rain, but it is completely useless function for a tent in the yard next to the house. Therefore, you can limit yourself to a colored simple fabric, for example, sheets.
19. Mini-bar with a sliding door
Mini-bar with sliding door
Using a former locker, you can build a mini bar with drinks and a set of cups. It is better to install a sliding door, which is fixed with two ropes. So you can get an impromptu table..
20. Whiteboard for drawing with crayons in the yard
Crayon board in the yard
In order not to invent sophisticated ways to decorate the space in the yard, it is worth remembering simple and affordable things. Children will be grateful for a creative corner where they can safely draw.
21. Tents for children
Tents for children
You won’t need a lot of money to implement the idea; you need to take a bathroom curtain, wrap it with a regular hoop and hang it on a tree branch. Children themselves will already be engaged in organizing their hut.
22. Birdhouses
Birdhouses
Bird houses will look pretty in the garden, especially if they are built using different materials and colors..
23. Torches to illuminate the garden at night
Torches to illuminate the garden at night
You need to take a clean, empty wine bottle, insert the wick, like in a kerosene lamp, add kerosene and use a special mount to install it on the fence throughout the garden. You can mask the mounts with flowers or moss.
24. Chinese bells
Chinese bells
Everyone has moved or changed locks at some time, so there are definitely a few unnecessary keys in the house. They can be used to create garden bells. All keys are painted in the desired colors, hung on strings next to a tree branch and bells are obtained.
25. Stream
Stream
Everyone knows that the sound of running and murmuring water has a relaxing effect on the psyche. Such a stream can be organized in the yard using ingenuity and imagination..
And what kind of garden can be without a seating area with soft sofas, armchairs and even a fireplace? It is very simple to equip it, you just need to follow simple rules and then an amazing corner will appear in the yard, from which you will not want to leave until winter.
