OUR BACKYARD

Having had a new tour of our house this week, I thought it would be good to give you the tour of the outside too. That needed a post of its own otherwise it would have been much too long. 

Since we don't have a spacious backyard and our front area is pretty much a concrete jungle we have had to be creative. We wanted to make the space feel cosy and nice to hang out in without spending too much money. We also couldn't do too much to change the space so it all had to be moveable. 



This was the last picture you all saw of the area. Well its changed quite a bit since then. The first step being to secure the area so we could send Macintosh outside without him escaping. So I set my handy hubby on the task and he built a fence for the back and a gate for the front. Now I make that sound simple but you have to realise you can't screw anything into the house as its made of cheese. So it all had to be hinged on the wood and hold its weight should a beagle decide to bash against it in a desperate attempt to get out! Thankfully its held up well, not that he's been bashing against it. He's quite content to sunbathe!



Once that had happened we needed to add some features. Andrew's idea of a feature was a BBQ. Mine was plants. Obviously we got both. Although by plants I mean grasses as they are the only things that seem to grow alright here in this arid climate. We also needed to add some shade and some lights for the evening. So those were both added pretty quickly. 

The one thing that took the longest was some kind of outdoor table. We couldn't agree on what we wanted. I was thinking a coffee table initially, whereas Andrew had grand plans that would involve chaos! In the end once he'd made the desk there were some bits of wood left so he managed to create a coffee table from them which I then painted to fit our theme. (See the Instagram feed for a photo.) 

So here we go, after that rather long pre-amble here is our backyard. 







Now I'm off to enjoy some time in it!
H

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