Backyard Decoration

A backyard can have plenty of furniture and still look strangely unfinished. One chair sits by the fence, a planter

A backyard can be spacious, attractive, and still have nowhere that feels right for a dog to settle. The usual

Fall has a way of exposing every weak spot in a backyard. The furniture suddenly feels too bare, the evenings

Every pool eventually becomes a crime scene: one flip-flop, a deflated something, and four towels that definitely don’t belong to

There’s a specific moment every pool owner reaches. It’s the moment you go outside to find a chair, and instead

Grass worn thin in a diagonal line from the back door to the fence. A vague muddy track that appears

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.