When moving into our new place last winter we DOUBLED the size of our back yard (hallelujah). So after seeing this DIY by Marianne over at Craft Project Ideas Eric and I started to plan out our own Backyard Oasis. A space that I've always dreamed of having but never in a million years thought we'd get around to creating.
We took Marianne's DIY & made a couple changes- mainly make it bigger. We wanted our Backyard Oasis to be for more than us. To surround that fire pit with friends over for beers or s'more making on family holidays.
Here's the before pic (just look at that giant EMPTY space saying fill me with something fun)-
We started with this pile of stones from an Aunt's recently dissembled garden & power washed them to save money, which didn't take too long at all.
While I power washed (for the FIRST time EVER, don't worry friends- hubs gave me multiple demonstrations & warnings on the dangers) Eric dug down a bit for the center of the hole and hammered the back of each stone to force them into that nice round shape.
Three more levels, 4 hours & a LOT of glasses of lemonade later we had this-
The best part came a couple days after that when we stained these two Adirondack chairs & spent our first night outside with the pups roasting hot dogs & toasting Backyard Oasis: Part 1 with a couple beers.
Here's the before pic (just look at that giant EMPTY space saying fill me with something fun)-
We started with this pile of stones from an Aunt's recently dissembled garden & power washed them to save money, which didn't take too long at all.
While I power washed (for the FIRST time EVER, don't worry friends- hubs gave me multiple demonstrations & warnings on the dangers) Eric dug down a bit for the center of the hole and hammered the back of each stone to force them into that nice round shape.
Three more levels, 4 hours & a LOT of glasses of lemonade later we had this-
The best part came a couple days after that when we stained these two Adirondack chairs & spent our first night outside with the pups roasting hot dogs & toasting Backyard Oasis: Part 1 with a couple beers.
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