5 Tips to Summerize Your Patio

I found a great article, courtesy of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, showing five simple ways to summerize your home and outdoor living space. Color, seating and comfortable landscape features are the way to make it happen.



Painting with vibrant colors can really warm up old chairs, tables and benches helping bring them to life. All you need is a few cans of spray paint and some tape to make give seating areas some personality. Apply an even coat of paint to the entire chair, let it dry, then apply a funky criss-crossing pattern of painters tape over the chair leaving certain areas exposed, then apply a different color paint to the chair. Another concept is creating a stencil out of cardboard. You can paint a bench, chair or other seating areas and then create funky shapes on cardboard, cut out the shapes and then spray paint through the stencil on your seating areas.



Larger seating areas in general are a focus in the article as well. More and more people are extending the outdoor living and entertaining time in their backyards and patios. This directly relates to the fresh coats of paint. Grab some old chairs out of the attic and the spruce them up with some warm colors and patterns.



A third inexpensive way to summerize your home is to go thrift store shopping and accessorize your patio with throw pillows, baskets and planter boxes for flowers. This is a great way to add depth and function to your outdoor entertaining area on a humble budget.


Landscaping is a fourth way to make your backyard more inviting. In heavy traffic areas where people tend to walk and congregate most, add some paver stones to protect surrounding bushes and flowers and add a sleek look to your main garden paths. Also, mulch is a great way to help retain moisture around flower patches and at the base of trees, all while giving your yard and clean and tidy look.


Finally, adding fire features, such as fire pits, tiki torches or hearths to your backyard can create a focal point for entertaining and conversation. We are all naturally attracted to fire and a fire pit will make for the perfect gathering point for guests, perfect spot for adding seating and can help extend the day outdoors on a chilly night. Natural gas or propane fire pits also bypass most local fire burning restrictions as they are controlled and safe to operate.

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