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How to Design a Backyard That Fits a quality Family Life

  • Perla Irish
  • November 21, 2020
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  1. Safety
  2. Surfaces
  3. Garden
  4. Play Area for Children
  5. Relaxation

Your backyard is a place where your family can relax and enjoy, with spatial areas for children to have fun, grownups to socialise, and the elderly and geriatric adults can easily access.

This is why backyard design must be able to enhance the quality of family. It does not matter the size of your backyard; there are always changes you can make to your backyard to transform it into your family’s best hangout area.

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How to Design a Backyard That Fits a quality Family Life

Here’s how to design a quality family-friendly backyard.

Safety

There is always anxiety or concern for the safety of kids outdoors by a lot of parents. Although this is a legitimate reason to worry, there is always an opportunity to make your backyard safe for your child.

When designing your backyard, ensure that you leave no chance for grave injury while creating exterior areas for your child to have fun.

A Family-friendly backyard allows children to discover their environment, engage in fun-filled games and learning activities. For example, you can install a chalkboard wall, which can protect the privacy of your kids and also offer a great point for focus.


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Surfaces

Not every family has the financial resources or time to remodel their entire backyard for children games or accessible mobility for physically challenged and elderly.

The simplest thing to do is redesigning the surfaces and allow members of the family to make the best use of them. In order word, the family can have their spaces based on the surfaces you have redesigned.

For instance, the surfaces for children may have sand, kid synthetic grass, turf and woodsy areas devoid of prickly/bristly bushes.

Older adult surfaces may include deck (with composite decking materials, wood or vinyl materials), grass and pathways. (And composite cladding boards could be used on the house itself).

In this way, you have redefined your backyard surfaces for family use by creating pluralistic areas.

Garden

Gardening is a great way to engage the whole family. Gardening can be a fun way to expose kids to the value of food and the process of agriculture; this can awaken their creativity, allowing them to be prudent and shunning wastage.

Observing the growth of vegetables and plants teaches children about the power of hard work and patience. Homegrown vegetables and legumes are also nourishing and satisfying.

The family garden need not be large or huge. A small raised patch is enough. Rather than use fertilisers and pesticide, composts can be used to improve soil structure, allowing your backyard garden to become more eco friendly and environmentally sustainable.

Play Area for Children

For your child’s imagination to blossom, you will need to create a play area within your backyard. This play area should be filled with natural materials for easy learning, discovery and experiment.

You can grow trees or flowers to encourage natural expiration. Game spaces can be created with grasses and sandboards for kids to play games like hide and seek, kick the can, capture the flag and so on.

Here are some solid tips that can inspire you to create an amazing play area for your child:

  • You can start by dedicating a big strip of grassland for play. This will not only serve as a space for play but a place for imaginative learning and creative enrichment.
  • In order to encourage play, you can add play items to the natural grassland or space. You can use sandy swath, rope netting or tire swing. This can foster outdoor play and exploration.
  • You can also get a mini pool or a splash pad. This will encourage your kids and other older members for the family to engage in physical fitness.

For sure, your child’s friends and classmates will also want to hang out and enjoy the pleasant fun in your yard, especially during the summer.

Relaxation

Another way of designing your yard to enhance family life is to create a relaxation spot. You can get a patio or deck (composites or stone) with outdoor furniture like tables or benches.

Hammocks can provide comfort and rest during the hot weather. Additionally, you can roast barbeque during family time or get the family around the fire pit at night for entertainment.

This can create a splendid and fun-filled outdoor experience for the entire family 一 your kids won’t run out of stories to share with their friends about their family time experience.

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