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Posts tagged “My Great Outdoors 2009”

My Great Outdoors: Valerie's Boat Sandbox & Garden

Name: Valerie Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan Type of space: Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We use our backyard for lounging and playing and growing food. It's fen...

My Great Outdoors: RaeGun's Container Garden

Name: RaeGun Location: Salt Lake City Type of space: Patio Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I've got a patio that is painfully hot. This year instead of pretending like I'd...

My Great Outdoors: Concrete vs. The Crawler

Name: Carrie, Simon & Miles Location: Brooklyn, NY Type of space: Concrete Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: Truthfully, the title of this post should be My "Great" ...

My Great Outdoors: Lissa's Backyard Picnic Table Project

Name: Lissa Lowe Location: Pepper Pike, Ohio Type of space: Backyard Picnic Table Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: After spending my career in global advertising, I traded a ...

My Great Outdoors: Sara's Backyard Playground

Name: Sara Stubbert Location: Fairfield, California Type of space: Backyard, garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: It's a work in progress, as most of these things are! W...

My Great Outdoors: Kristin's Fairy Garden

Name: Kristin::Prairie Daze Location: North Newton, Kansas Type of space: Back Yark Nook Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: Our fairy garden was a wonderful project for my thr...

My Great Outdoors: Malgorzata's Colorful, Fruitful Garden

Name: Malgorzata Location: Poland Type of space: Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: As soon as the weather allows we try to spend as much time outdoors as possible. The...

My Great Outdoors: Kate's Family Play Area

Name: Kate N. Location: Gaylord, Michigan Type of space: Play Area Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We wanted to create a play area for our two boys without purchasing a ki...

My Great Outdoors: Adrienne's Garden Box How-To

Name: Adrienne Location: Jackson, Tennessee Type of space: Backyard Garden Box Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We wanted to start a small garden, in our back yard. so we goo...

My Great Outdoors: The Danish Ambassador's Garden Paradise

Name: Friis Arne Petersen, Danish Ambassador to the United States, and his family Location: Washington, DC Type of space: Garden, terrace, swimming pool How did you do it?: The Embassy building and r...

My Great Outdoors: Liz's Sunny Family Backyard

Name: Liz Location: Valencia, California Type of space: Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: When we bought our little house, the back yard was overrun with weeds and i...

My Great Outdoors: Outdoor Play Kitchen

Name: Jstanford1000 Location: Mountain View, California Type of space: Outdoor Play Kitchen Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We took a small unused space outside of our bedr...

My Great Outdoors: Amida's "Handmade" Backyard

Name: Amida Location: Daly City, California Type of space: Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: Our garden isn't very big but it is accessible and fun. My favorite p...

My Great Outdoors: Yomara, Keanu & Diego's Garden

Name: Yomara, Keanu and Diego Location: Atlanta, Georgia Type of space: Victory Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: My family lives in the Historic West End of Atlanta...

My Great Outdoors: LiEr's Daughters' Princess Pavilion

Name: LiEr Location: Eagan, Minnesota Type of space: Deck and Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: This is a round fold-up table dressed up as a little princess pavilion! ...

My Great Outdoors: A Nice Yard Without a Green Thumb

Name: Alex, Chris and Vincent Location: Berwyn, Illinois Type of Space: Backyard How Did You Do It?: When you inherit a bad yard and were born without a green thumb, trying to put together your...