Cooking
Entertaining
Socializing
Gardening
Playing

As we slowly creep our way out of winter, it’s time to start thinking about how to get out of the house. Use this guide to spark inspiration for how to reclaim your backyard with these outdoor room ideas.

Cooking

Outdoor Kitchen: Bring your entire kitchen set up outdoors so you won’t be running in and out of the house to rinse produce or flip a burger. Replicate your inside set up for a seamless transition, plus more elbow room for prepping. Outfit your outdoor room with full kitchen islands, built-in flat tops, and modular kitchen sinks for easy access to water. Cooking outside is also the chance to experiment (safely) with gas or charcoal grills, smokers, and even pizza ovens. Give your food that smokey flavor you just can’t get cooking inside.

Outdoor Bar: Sip your favorite cocktails at your own high top table from a bar stocked with all your favorites. Keep beer, wine, and mixers at your fingertips with an outside mini fridge and avoid the hassle of lugging around drinkware with a full-service beverage cart. Adding a wet bar or service bar to your outdoor room ideas will be a guaranteed hit with guests and yield long-term savings otherwise spent by going out.

Entertaining

Outdoor Entertainment: This outdoor room idea will transform your yard into a movie theater. An outdoor projector, screen, and speakers will turn your backyard into the local silver screen. Add string lights and a popcorn machine to complete the space.

Outdoor Heating: One of the most popular outdoor room ideas is a fire pit. Gather friends and family outside around a fire for a night full of star gazing and s’mores roasting. Usable all year round, you can add a firepit to your outdoor space either in the yard or on the patio. Choose your fuel preference from propane, wood, charcoal, or natural gas, depending on whether you want to use the flame for food or just bundling up on a cold winter night.

Socializing

Outdoor Dining: Host your dinner party outside for a change of scenery and enjoy your meal alfresco-style. Feed groups of ten or more people with an outdoor dining set with swivel chairs, glass table top, and an umbrella for a cool shade during the meal. Cushions are weather resistant to use all year on nights when you want to enjoy burgers straight from the grill to the table.

For more intimate seating, you could choose a bistro conversation set. Position a small table and two chairs on your patio to enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning or chat while watching the sun go down.

Gardening

Outdoor Greenhouse: Transform an unused outdoor room into the greenhouse of your dreams. Opt for a freestanding, enclosed greenhouse that fits perfectly on your patio or backyard. Covered with a durable PVC cover, these portable garden houses come equipped with several shelves with plenty of room or potters and plants that thrive outdoors. Protect your greenery from cold snaps or pests for an optimal growing environment all year round.

Potting Benches & Tables: Have all of your gardening supplies on hand with an outdoor work bench or table. These sturdy structures provide convenient storage, and counter space to repot growing plants, and even come with a removable sink to soak terracotta pots or refill your watering can. Keep tools easily accessible with hooks to hang trowels or sheers.

Outdoor Planters: Display several flourishing plants at a time in your outdoor room with planter stands. Multi-tiered plant stands can hold more weight than single stools so you can show off your green thumb and all of your blossoming beauties.

Playing

Get everyone outside together and revive your outdoor space with this fun outdoor room idea. Set up a swing set, sand box, and even trampoline to keep the kids entertained for hours. Even get the adults involved with outdoor games like bocce ball and or a cornhole tournament. At night, set up tents and sleeping bags in the backyard for an at-home camping adventure.

Now that you’re inspired, you come up with your own outdoor room ideas and enjoy your newfound fresh air paradise.