Tips to Get Your Backyard Ready for Summer

It’s already mid-May, and summer is almost here. Today, I am sharing tips to help you get your backyard ready for summer and entertaining.

I can’t wait for summer to arrive. Summer means backyard barbecues, pool parties, and spending time outdoors with family and friends. These tips will help you prepare for all the fun summer activities ahead!

Memorial Day is Soon

With Memorial Day approaching, it’s time to start thinking about summer. I have started getting my backyard ready for summer and am sharing some tips to help you get ready.

After being indoors with such a rainy winter, I look forward to spending time outdoors. I can’t wait for days to get longer and warmer and for our backyard and pool to fill with family and friends.

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A few summers ago, we added furniture by our pool from the Arhaus Outdoor Collection. Featuring a refined, traditional aesthetic, this Arhaus collection was designed with clean lines and no-fuss styling. I love it, and it works perfectly at our pool.

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Five Tips to Get Your Backyard Ready for a Summer Pool Party

To get our backyard ready for a long summer, I realized there were five things I needed to address. I am sharing these with you today. You don’t have to do all five; decide which one is the most important and start there.

#1 – Create a Place Where You Can Relax 

For the longest time, we had no place to sit near our pool to relax. I solved our backyard’s critical problem by finding new chaise lounges. I love that we can relax here any time during the day. 

These chaises are perfect for when I want to find a nice place to relax. They are also great when my girlfriends come for an afternoon pool party.

# 2 – Provide Lots of Shade

As much as we all love the sun’s warmth, shade is necessary!

You might want to look for an umbrella that is the perfect size and offers a lot of shade. Ours tilts to provide shade as the sun moves throughout the day. Your outdoor space isn’t complete until you’ve included the ideal shade solution for dining areas or seating arrangements. 

Isn’t this umbrella perfect?

#3 – Have a Place to Dine Outdoors

I love having different places to dine in our backyard, so adding a poolside table was necessary.

This table and chairs are undoubtedly used a lot next to our pool. I will serve lunch out here for my girlfriends at our pool party.

This is one of my favorite lunch spots. How great is this?

We also have another area in our backyard for dining. It is an excellent place for entertaining.

#4 – Get Away From the Heat

We are lucky in Southern California as our summer weather is warm but mild. We rarely have humidity, and even the bugs are manageable. But, regardless of where you live, you always want to be able to get out of the heat.

We put a pool in our backyard about fifteen years ago. I wanted it to match our home, so I used the same bricks around the pool that matched the patio on the back of our home. The pool undoubtedly gives us a break from the heat. So, what do you do without a pool?

Some options include a misting system, a stock tank pool, water toys for the kids, a slip-and-slide, and suitable old-fashioned sprinklers. Of course, ceiling fans are great, too. 

Whatever you do, make sure you can stay cool and have fun with the family. 

#5 – Stock up on Pool Accessories

Every pool and pool party needs towels, beverage cups, suntan lotion, and any items that will make you and your guests more comfortable.

I love my Kindle Waterproof Paperwhite so much because I can read it in the bright sun with or without sunglasses, and it is now waterproof. I can also change the screen to black, read it in bed at night, and not bother my husband!

Our beach house is stocked with the Cabana Striped Beach Towels, and I love them.

I love sharing movies at night; our outdoor Portable Movie Projector and Inflatable Movie Screen are the best! We have Sonos speakers but this Portable Indoor/Outdoor Speaker is excellent and so inexpensive!

Here are some of my favorites.

Sunscreen is critically important. Sunburns are no fun and sun damage is even less fun. I always have sunscreen on hand so that everyone is covered and can reapply as necessary. Don’t forget your lips and ears!

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I hope these five tips will help you get ready for summer.

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