As a child, did you ever find a shady place in your yard to build a tree fort or playhouse? We used old sheets and blankets. It was great fun to create a special hideaway with pretend doors, windows and some furniture. This image evoked all those old memories.
Now that you’re an adult, do you still desire to create a little getaway in your yard?
As a continuation of Part One, here are some other simple and clever ideas to think on as spring and summer approach.
Colorful, creative and eye-catching ideas for your yard
Some are feasible, and others are just for fun! Enjoy!
Line with black plastic and four drain holes?
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Colorful shades add a neat touch to an temporary outdoor conversation area
Mosquito netting may be a solution for staying out if you are near water or it is a buggy area. This appeals to me as an outdoor reading nook.
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DIY mud boot tray filled with creek pebbles for the back entry
Create a sheltering nook for reading or conversation
While not a fan of lots of yard ornaments, this by itself is in good taste
An idyllic weekend getaway idea…don’t forget the binoculars
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I have always wanted to do this on a potting shed
Great use for old headboard in your secret garden, perhaps?
If you have trees providing some shade to a section of your lawn, this is a very simple and inexpensive idea. Using bamboo stakes (in this photo), it requires lashing with cord at the corners and some support to keep it from leaning.
Such a billowy and light playshelter that can be taken down quickly.
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Creative recycling for pretty DIY project
Do you enjoy ‘feathering your nest’? Do you have several in your family who are also creative souls? Find an idea you love and brainstorm together to see what you can create in your yard.
It doesn’t really matter what project you pick; doing it together builds heart strings and lasting memories and serves as a jumping off place for more good times together.
“We are making their memories day by day and year by year, and what they shall be in the future will depend on the home life we are living now. We may make our home a palace, filling it with delights, covering the walls with beautiful pictures, planting flowers to fill the halls and chambers with fragrance, and hanging cages of singing birds everywhere to pour out sweet notes of song; or we may cover the walls with hideous images and ghastly specters to look down upon us, and plant only briers and thorns about the doors to flaunt themselves in our faces when we sit in the gloom of life’s nightfall. We may make the memories of our home so tender, so precious, so sacred, that each life that goes out of our doors shall carry a blessing upon it wherever it moves. Or we may make its memories a perpetual pillow of thorns for our heads, a burden of bitterness and anguish which shall never be lifted or removed.” ~J.R. Miller, from Home Making
I always have so much fun dreaming like this!
What are your favorites?
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Clint Baker
Love these posts. Thanks for posting them. They give us so many great ideas! God Bless you!
Lana
Thanks for all the great ideas! I love the headboard gate!
Shelby
I LOVE the hanging shades, the plantable mailbox, the headboard gate, the garden tool doorknob, the… oh my.I love everything! Great post!
m clark
The mailbox cover is our creation. Hope your bloggers enjoy viewing By the Cottage Door . Nice to be seen!!
Jacqueline
Dear M. Clark,
I had originally found your photo on ‘Two Women and A Hoe’s’ photo log. I am glad to know where they found your photo, and I gave your link as the source. Thanks for letting me know 🙂 Blessings!
Isabella L.
These photos are definitely going to help me with creative ideas, thanks a lot my friend. Success to you!
Élias Sami
Your work is very appreciated by me, I always read your posts. Thanks!
Naomi
Jacqueline, love, love the ideas you shared. I am tucking some of them away so I can make them work in my backyard. Thank you for sharing. Bless you. :o)
Far Above Rubies
I love all the ideas, Jacqueline. I especially love the door handle; clever.
Chara @ Stitching Hearts Together
I love the headboard gate, but seeing the basket of candles just instantly inspired me! I have a “hanging fruit basket” that has been collecting dust on my porch for too long (ceilings are too high in current kitchen for it) now I know exactly what to do with it- just have to find the right branch to hang it from and the right candles to put in it! 🙂 Yeah summer entertaining- maybe citronella candles would be a good idea. 🙂
Carla M.
Wow, such interesting ideas. I am loving finding new ways I can use some old things I have just sitting around here. Please keep sharing these things with us!
Lori
Hello,
Love the ideas! I’m actually looking for a new headboard currently and I was wondering where you got the one in the photo. I’m in love with it!
Thanks,
Lori
Jacqueline
Lori,
I am sorry that the headboard is just a photo I’ve gathered from around the internet…I know! It is a gorgeous piece. You might call around to some of the architectural supply houses or big antique houses that remove things before an old house it torn down. Maybe they would know of a place that renovates those items 🙂 Thanks for stopping in…come again! Blessings,
Jacqueline