Outdoor Living Ideas to Make Staying at Home Wonderful

If you’ve been staying at home a lot lately, you know how important your outdoor spaces are to preserving your sense of wellbeing. But if those spaces are cramped, under-developed or uninviting, it’s time to bring them to life and create some outdoor living space that brings you peace and joy. Consider upgrading your space with one of these 5 outdoor living ideas:

1. Take Your Patio to New Places

Update the ordinary concrete space with colored flagstone or brick extensions. If you’re on the side of a hill, consider extending the space with a retaining wall. Employ some hardscape to grow vines or create shade on a west-facing expanse or add shrubs for privacy. Punch in some comfortable and inviting outdoor furniture and you can really relax out there.

2. Add a Fire Pit

There are so many fire pit options that at least one or five different designs will fit well within your outdoor living space. Consider what you want to use the fire pit for: sitting out late at night roasting marshmallows and hot dogs? Staying out later to watch the stars, or just get some evening fresh air? A fire pit will also extend the months you can spend outdoors by bringing extra warmth and light into the fall and earlier in the spring. Just make sure to read about our fire pit safety tips first, and then contact AllGreen Landscape Co. for a safe and beautiful fire pit installation.

3. Try an Outdoor Living Room

Adding hardscape to shelter comfortable furniture, extra lighting to extend your evening hours and mosquito-repellent plantings can make an outdoor living room the place to be. No more “4-walls” claustrophobia when you can lounge on a sofa or a hanging chair in your extended outdoor living room with a variety of plants and a water feature. It’s definitely something to think about!

4. Expand to an Outdoor Kitchen

You may not be entertaining many people this summer, but someday you might be. And in any case, you and your family could really use that summer BBQ feeling on more than just Friday nights. Expand your outdoor cooking space from the patio barbeque to a real outdoor kitchen, complete with brick oven, outdoor-safe fridges, work spaces and a beautiful dining area with flowers and beautiful lighting. You’ll want to cook and eat outside all summer.

5. Make Your Garden Goals Come True

Upgrade your garden area with beautiful local plants and flowers and trees that add texture and color to your yard all year long. If you plan your plantings right, you can even have color through the winter. And if you’re adding an outdoor kitchen, why not include a vertical garden of kitchen herbs that you can just pluck fresh leaves from whenever you need to?

Everyone has different tastes and budgets, but there are outdoor living dreams that are within reach of every homeowner. Contact AllGreen Landscape Co. to discuss your outdoor living design ideas today: (703) 992-8787 to discuss your outdoor living design ideas.