Howdy!

Welcome to our photo-heavy post of all the improvements we have made on our little slice of the great outdoors AKA our backyard. Before we dive into it, let’s kick things off with some establishing B&A shots: 

Ahh…it’s nice to look back at where you came from. The before photos don’t really emphasize the chain link fence, scraggly trees/branches/strangeplants/poison oak, and overall trash that we cleared out of this yard.

First things first, the star of the show, the stock tank pool area:

…and then our giant elephant ears grew in:

I think you get it. Now let’s move on to another part of the yard, shall we? Here’s the side of the garage that I painted a few weeks ago. I’ll be posting an article about that shortly. But for now, enjoy these photos:

In the back backyard (AKA mosquitoville), there was a pile of bricks and a weird slab of concrete. We decided that it wasn’t worth it to jack-hammer it up, so we placed four pallets over the slab and bricks and created a sorta platform. This project isn’t close to complete. I eventually want to paint the pallets, add black and white rugs, add nicer lounge chairs with a little table, better landscaping, and maybe some lanterns and/or a fire pit situation. For now, we can get by with this.

And the back porch with our DIY File Cabinet Planter Boxes.

And here’s an outtake of my happy puppy boi:

*Excuse me, I need to take some sheets out of the dryer:

Care to see how it sparkles at night?

What do you think? Wanna come over for a swim? Curious where we got all our stuff? Here’s our product list:

Neon Blow-Up Chairs are from Amazon – link here
Bistro Lights (50ft over porch and 25ft over pool area) are from Amazon
Black and White Umbrellas – Hayneedle
Poppy red plastic chairs around pool – Local Feed Store in Wimberly (sorry, they don’t have an option to buy online)
Yellow/red outdoor rugs on porch (I CANNOT RECOMMEND THESE ENOUGH) – Amazon
Black and White Outdoor Runners are Ikea (sadly out of stock now)
Plants, Fencing, Mulch, Lattice, pots- all those are from either Lowes or Home Depot
Ducky Chlorine Float – Amazon
Globe outdoor lights – Wal-Mart
Pool Towels – Wal-Mart