5 Ideas to Reinvent Your Backyard Patio Experience
It is never too late to reinvent or reimagine your outdoor space. Creating a backyard patio experience where people want to spend time can extend the size of your home to add another room. Here are 5 ideas to help inspire your planning and help you take full advantage of your outdoor area.
Add a Fire Pit
A fire pit is a perfect addition to any patio. It creates a cozy ambiance and allows you to enjoy your outdoor space even on cooler evenings, solo, or with friends and family. From affordable yet stylish steel fire bowl options to built-in designs decked out with lava rocks and bespoke tile, there are plenty of backyard fire pit ideas out there to suit any budget.
Pro Tip: To ensure your fire pit brings only warmth and minimize smoke to your gathering, burn only well-seasoned firewood and avoid green leaves or newspaper. The more moisture in your burning materials, the more smoke.
Create a Zen Garden
If you are looking for a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life, a Zen garden is a great addition to your patio. You can create a simple, minimalist garden with rocks, sand, and plants. It is a perfect spot for meditation, yoga, or just relaxing and enjoying the tranquility of nature.
Pro tip: Though authentic Zen gardens have few plants and no water features, there are many variations in Zen design where water and plants can play a more prominent role.
Enhance your Condo balcony
Live in a condo and have an outdoor balcony? Whether you want to bask in the warm sunlight or simply take a deep breath of fresh air, your balcony is an enticing space for hours of relaxation. If you are looking for ways to enhance your experience, one would be by elevating your flooring with condo deck tiles which can create a sense of optical spaciousness and utilitarian definition to your balcony enclosure.
Pro tip: Plants are often a great addition, and leafy beauties like ferns and spider plants give the balcony an interesting texture, while perennials like tulips add a lovely colour to your balcony.
Add Outdoor Lighting
Outdoor lighting can transform your patio into a magical space. You can install string lights, lanterns, or even LED lights to create a warm and inviting ambiance. Just like indoors, outdoor lighting ideas have a dual role of curating an atmosphere and providing practical illumination and can be an instant way to make the space feel more custom or higher end.
Pro tip: Installing staked solar lights in your border will illuminate the greenery and throw light towards the rest of the garden, rather than just centralising around the patio.
Install a Water Feature
A water feature, such as a fountain or a small pond, can add a soothing element to your patio. The soothing sounds of moving water drown out urban noises, helping to create a calming oasis where you can unwind after a long day. A water feature can be as elaborate as a large pond or as simple as a tabletop fountain. It can be the main backyard water feature, a focal point that draws the eye through the landscape, or a background element.
Pro tip: Choose a water feature that is in scale with the landscape, so it does not overwhelm or get lost in the design.
