While fixing your frontyard may improve curb appeal, fixing up your backyard can improve your life. By doing this, it will draw your family outdoors for everything from dining alfresco to tending a kitchen garden to playing lawn games. Here are four do-it-yourself projects which can help you out there.
1. Create natural screening. Skip getting a wooden fence, and plant a row of evergreens. Choose a naturally slender variety. This won't eat up land or need much pruning.
2. Quiet the din. Drown out the noise of your neighbor's parties and that barking dog. Invest in a water fountain. Get a self-contained model which requires no excavation work or piping.
3. Control the sun. Build a simple pergola if you have basic carpentry skills. Build this with a few hundred dollars' worth of cedar or redwood timbers.
Add attractions! Put in an easy to grow fruit bushes like blueberries or grapes. Invest in a fire pit! Or invest in a hammock!
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