How do I create a nice, relaxing backyard?

Hello Rose, You can ideas from magazines, you can go to your local library and ask at the reference desk for books on decorating your backyard. Home Depot also has at least 60 books on different projects for outside. You can purchase them, and they have step by step instructions an illustrations.

Draw out a complete layout plan. Take lots of measurements. Do each area as time and money permit. Begin with the area you would use the most. Without knowing what exactly you are looking for or seeing the site, it is hard to explain exactly what you would need to do.

I took measurements if my beds and took pictures of the area then I drew it out on paper. I then took it to my nursery where I buy my flowers and showed them what I had. They then gave me ideas which I wrote on the paper that I drew out. This provided my beds with flowers blooming at all times. The nursery can provide what flowers are best for your area. It cost me nothing but my flowers.

This is how we transformed our sad little space into a gorgeous entertainment area. I hope it gives you a little inspiration. Good luck! Hugs, Holly

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The Contractor who is quoting the Medium Amount of Money rather Than MONET is usually right on with what you should allot as a Budget for your DIY project And the get together cookout you have when you Celebrate being done.

That said, if all contractors are quoting prices out of your league, don't expect it to occur happily and satisfactorily within the budget you have, by DIY either.

Very rarely does DIY cost LESS IN Materials without a Very Substantial Sacrifice in Quality or Durability Somewhere.

Yes, this is unlikely what you wanted to hear, but these are the facts:

A. The only Savings you should expect in DIY is the Savings in Labor you Get, by DIY Enslaving yourself to a Project.

B. If you Charge You the Amount the Contractor Intends to Charge you, you have a much Greater degree of Personal Satisfaction when the Project is Done and you Celebrate the Project Done.

C. The only Difference between you do it yourself and someone else does it, is the different family and friends towhom any surplus in the budget is directed, to Celebrate the Project Done. To an end that: Employing any of your unemployed friends as your helpers with Surplus over materials cost will be a better cause for celebration than a DIY with that Surplus Stingily Kept.

D. On Enormous projects, it is best to poll Pastors and other Community Leaders and also Neighbors and Townspeople because: Enormous Projects, done by 50 townspeople or more do indeed [much alike berry bushes] not belong in your own yard, but rather instead, managed in a Public Place, by well managed and Combined Efforts to Encourage the Profit of Volunteerism and Teamwork to Concentrate on Constructing something more substantial and enduring and also: more beneficial to the community and community elders at large, by that collective inspired to concentrate on that goal as Donors and Volunteers, to avoid circumstances that these rather than DIYers, instead are Misers, whom fail to understand that the keyword in the term: Miserable is indeed Miser and that the Miserable ate well qualified to be a Miser whom oft indeed is Miserable too.