B and I are coming up on our one year anniversary in our house (this April) and we have done a lot of decorating on the inside of the house but with the spring and summer months approaching my mind has turned to the outside of the house. The front yard was "landscaped" in the broadest sense of the term and is not in bad shape. The backyard on the other hand is downright sad. Out our back door is a small porch, you take about 2 steps and are at the stairs down to a small cement pad. Both areas are really too small to do a whole lot with and eventually I think we would like to build a bigger deck - that is a ways down the road.
My main goal this spring is to put up privacy screens on one side of the backyard. Our one neighbor has a chain link fence that has seen better days and to be honest an unkempt back yard that I would love not to see. Solution? These screens spotted over at Aubrey and Lindsay's Little House Blog. They built these great privacy screens and filled in between with foliage. It would hide the fence and we would not be too awful of neighbors for totally fencing fencing in our yard.
Cute, functional and would also give our neighbors some privacy and nice plants to enjoy. What do you think?
Oh wow! Lots in common here! We too bought our house last April and our backyard is in pretty terrible shape. I love this idea, though! Looks so pretty :)
ReplyDeleteI love privacy screens with greenery growing up them, very organic!
ReplyDeleteFYI: I have finally put together my rast hack post and yours is in it!
http://hodgepodge-babselou.blogspot.com/2011/02/ikea-rast-hack-round-up.html
Barbara