Back Porch Ideas That’ll Make You Actually Want to Spend Time Outdoors
You have a back porch. You also have a folding chair from 2009 and a dying plant you keep meaning
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Follow on InstagramYou have a back porch. You also have a folding chair from 2009 and a dying plant you keep meaning
The grass ends. The concrete begins. A folding chair appears sometime in June and disappears again in September. This is
Grass worn thin in a diagonal line from the back door to the fence. A vague muddy track that appears
There’s a specific feeling you get sitting in a European courtyard that’s almost impossible to manufacture from scratch. The walls
Concrete and disappointment. That’s what most patios offer. A slab of grey, a couple of chairs nobody sits in, and
Red, white, and blue is the easiest color palette to get wrong. Three colors that all demand attention, shoved together
The side of your house is not a hallway. It’s not a place to lay concrete and call it done.
Your backyard is not a storage unit for outdoor furniture you bought and then left out to season. It is
There’s a version of garden decorating that involves terracotta pots, a garden gnome, and a wind chime from a hardware
The planter you choose says more about your design sensibility than the plant inside it. Most people have this backwards.