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You won’t want to leave the backyard
With summer fast approaching, the time to hang out in your backyard on warm days and nights has arrived. It’s probably been a while since you’ve spent much time out there, so you may need to upgrade your furniture with something stylish, such as an egg chair. You could also invest in entertainment to host friends and family, such as a giant Jenga game or a projector and screen combination. Whatever path you want to follow, Amazon has you covered with its “Outdoor Living” trends.
In this article: Brightown Outdoor String Lights, Permasteel Patio Cooler and Christopher Knight Home Outdoor Bar Cart
Outdoor living areas to upgrade
If you want to upgrade your backyard situation but aren’t sure where to start, consider your needs based on the following categories in order.
Furniture
The first area to target for upgrades is your furniture situation. Examine what you have closely, looking for both functional and cosmetic flaws. If you have wobbly chairs with stained or faded colors, for example, you may need a new furniture set.
Functional additions
Once you’ve covered furniture, see if you need anything that improves the general operation of your backyard. These are items such as any kind of lighting, fans for extra airflow, umbrellas for shade and heaters for cold nights.
Entertainment and decorative additions
Lastly, you can grab fun and cool upgrades. If you mostly enjoy your backyard alone, start with decorative additions and add anything that makes you smile. It can be beautiful plants, sculptures, pictures, you name it. If you frequently host friends and family, start with entertainment additions. This doesn’t have to be strictly games and the like. Entertainment upgrades can also be items like fancy coolers or a bar hutch.
Best backyard upgrades on Amazon
Best Choice Products Wicker Egg Chair
There’s something extra cozy about an egg chair, with its walls and roof. It’s also a great way to add some pop to your backyard furniture setup. It comes in six colors and measures 24 inches deep by 40 inches wide and 56 inches tall.
La Jolie Muse Hanging Planters Set
The honeycomb exterior adds a dynamic element to the looks of these planters, plus it gives them a nice texture. They come with high-strength nylon rope, and the bottoms have drainage holes. They can be used indoors or outside thanks to their high weather-resistance. They come in four colors.
Brightown Outdoor String Lights
Warm lighting is a must for any backyard setup because it creates a comfortable, calming atmosphere. Adding these string lights around your furniture, perhaps across the roof of a patio, adds both that atmosphere and some style. They come in seven lengths, two bulb types and three styles.
Nook Theory Bamboo Fiber Dinner Plates
These unique plates are made from bamboo fibers, meaning they have no plastic of any kind, nor any of the toxicity plastic can have. Despite this, they’re still dishwasher-safe. They’re also scratch- and shatterproof with a stain-resistant matte finish. They come in 8- or 10-inch diameters and four are included.
Giant-sized toys are a big hit at bars with outdoor seating, so why not grab a game for your own yard? Jenga is a perfect choice because all ages can play together, and it’s easy to add some more interesting rules to it for an adults-only party.
A backyard isn’t complete without something that rocks or swings to lull you into true relaxation. This hammock is the easiest way to add that because it comes with a frame, meaning you don’t need to scramble for a place to hang it. It comes in eight colors and the seating area measures 78 by 55 inches.
If your backyard doesn’t have covered seating anywhere, add some with this large patio umbrella. It’s meant to slide into furniture that already has a hole for it, but you can also buy a standalone base separately. It comes in 11 colors.
If you like to take a cooler out in the backyard when you post up for an afternoon off, get this fully featured one and leave it out there. It has wheels to move it easily, a built-in bottle opener complete with a cap-catching section and a drain plug for easy cleaning.
Christopher Knight Home Outdoor Bar Cart
This beverage holder is in a similar vein to the patio cooler, but it’s better for holding cocktail-making gear and hard liquor. The table’s edges can fold down to get through tight spaces, or maybe to be stashed between two chairs.
A nice rug can pull a patio together just as well as it can pull together any other room. Plus, a rug on the patio makes it a little easier to clean off all the dirt and dust that gathers outside. It comes in 10 colors and 40 combinations of size and shape.
Outtoy Inflatable Projection Screen
There’s nothing better than watching a movie under the stars on a warm night. If you don’t have space to hang a sheet or normal screen in your backyard, you can add a screen to the middle of your yard with this inflatable. It comes in three sizes.
And this projector can help you get your favorite content into that inflatable screen. It can plug into any phone using its included three-way plug, letting you stream any content from any service. It can project up to full HD resolution with a peak brightness of 7,500 lumens.
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