14 Awesome DIYs to Trick Out Your Backyard This Summer

Your backyard is your own , personal oasis , and you should make it as outrageously awesome as your imagination allows . Always wanted your own tiki bar ? How about a personal tumbler pigeon coaster ? Or a giant outdoor xylophone , because you sleep with music as much as you dislike your neighbors ? We ’ve rounded up a mountain of the best backyard DIYs , so you could do more than just hang out in a bivouacking chairman on the lawn this summertime .

Install a Backyard Zip Line

Why would you walk through your backyard when you could zip through it , imagining that you ’re Robinson Crusoe fly over the rainforest ?

What you ’ll need:1 . A nice , big piece of property with trees2 . A daredevilish sentiency of adventure3 . A Safari Pith Helmet

Build a table with a built-in cooler

Because walking from the table to the cooler just takes too bloody long .

What you ’ll need:1 . woodwind and plantation owner boxes2 . acquaintance who wish to drink beer3 . Decent table manners

Build a giant xylophone

Has your neighbor been wake up at 6:30am to mow the lawn ? It ’s retribution prison term .

What you ’ll need:1 . Wood planks and galvanized staples2 . Chill neighbors3 . canvas music for ABBA ’s Mamma Mia

Construct a bench out of cinderblocks

You could just find fault up an outdoor bench from Ikea , but where ’s the fun in that when you have six dozen clinker blocks lay around ?

What you ’ll need:1 . 75 ( ! ) cinder blocks2 . A slightly absurd do - it - yourself attitude3 . Upper body strength

Party at your handmade tiki bar

Ah , the tiki bar . Is there anything more gratifying than sipping a cool beverage under a roof made from dry out green goddess , listening to the strait of a uke ?

What you ’ll need:1 . Grass Hula skirts2 . Lots of mini umbrellas for whatever you ’re drinking , even if it ’s out of a can3 . Island Time

Turn an old fridge into a cooler

This will definitely give that one guy a cause to drop a majority of the barbecue out “ getting ice ” at the food shop , rather than actually at the party .

What you ’ll need:1 . An sure-enough – rather clean-living – fridge2 . heap of goods that should be keep open on ice3 . Lots of friend with big appetites

Construct a seed-planting board

Because if your tomato plant plant are n’t buy the farm to trace up exactly , why plant them at all ?

What you ’ll need:1 . Wine corks2 . A place to stash away all your foodstuff in pillowcase of famine3 . An almost unhealthy compulsion with absolutely square line