9 Popular Deck and Backyard Summer Decorations

Summer is back, thank God. It’s time to soak in the warmth and light of the beautiful season one more time. You could literally live on the porch. Or lounge all day in the backyard.

Summer is the season to spend time away from the house even when you are at home. The porch, deck or backyard is where home is. Which is why sprucing up the place with summer decorations is part of the season’s indulgence – especially if you are expecting guests.

Creative Summer Decoration Ideas

But summer decorations can be a pain too. It can get tedious and so not creative. Not to worry. To ease your day, here’s our take of the 9 most popular summer decorations ideas from across the world:

• Use Plants: Plants are nature’s best summer decoration. If you do not already have perennial flowering plants exploding with life and color in the yard, get some. Pick out a few potted plants too for the porch.

• Get creative with the lighting: Nights out in the outdoor space becomes more magical under some creative lighting. Like hanging lanterns or strings of lights along the perimeter.  Or tiki torches or special colored candles in jars.

• BBQ: Must have. It’s not summer until some grilling happens.

• Fix things: A new coat of paint on outdoor furniture and maybe new cushions will give the place a feel of newness.

• Add some shade: Everyone loves summer because of the sun, and everyone wants some shade somewhere along the day. Even at night, it does feel better to while away the hours under an awning or table umbrella.

• Arrange things properly: Make sure every activity area, seats and props are arranged so that no one has their back to the rest.  Human beings relax and interact best when they can see everyone around them.

• Put up a fireplace: If you can, get a fire place set up in the yard. The ancestors in all of us can still not resists a session of happy mingling and chatting around a fire.

• Get stuff for Kids to do: if kids will be part of summer proceedings, get them something to burn out their energy. Like a makeshift bowling setup of plastic bottles filled with water and a few balls. Or a tambourine and swings.

• Have a back-up Plan:  Summer decorations have a way of testing your temper. Light bulbs fail, candles break, cushions get soaked with drink. Get extra supplies of everything that can be stored.

Enjoy your summer!

Jonah, guest blogger