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
You 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
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.
The edge of a garden bed is where a yard either holds together or falls apart. It’s a three-inch strip