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When you want to upgrade your backyard, you typically need a couple different experts: a designer and an installer. An experienced designer has a knack for where things should go and has spent years ...

Whether you truly hate yard work or simply don't have enough time to perform landscaping chores, there are numerous ways to reduce the amount of time you spend upkeeping your yard. Your outdoors area ...

Add some elements of peace and play to whatever space you're working with. While the front yard is often designed with the public in mind, the backyard is your place to express yourself and unwind ...

With temperatures already creeping into the triple digits, there's no time like the present to bring the thermometer down in your outside spaces and make your backyard a place to chill (literally).

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...