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Summer Outdoor Tour

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Looking at homes and yards and the way other people decorate and landscape is a lot of fun. I usually come away with some great ideas for us to try in our home and yard. I don’t see many blog tours of the outside of blogger’s homes so I was super excited when Tara from Lehman Lane asked me to join this group of blogging friends to bring you our Summer Outdoor Tour. We have teamed up to give you a little glimpse into what the outside of our homes look like.

Summer Garden Tour & Ourdoor Spaces Blog Hop

For us, the outside of our home is just as important as the inside. We work in the yard just as much as we do on the inside of the house. This Summer Outdoor Tour 2016 is going to show you some of my favorite spots in our yard.

Let’s start this Summer Outdoor Tour with a view of the front of our home.

Summer Outdoor Tour 2016

When we bought the house, it was a mint green color. We changed the color and added a new front patio/porch at the front door. We have also added a TON of new plants to the front of the house.

This year, we bought a lot of new plants for the right side of the house. We wanted to fill this area with plants and we can’t wait to see how it matures over the next few years.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

On to the back.

This is a wide view of some of my favorite parts of our back yard.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

We use old mailboxes to hold garden tools.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

Broken rocking chairs become planters. 

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

And, old windows make the best art on our fence.

This particular window also provides motivation for our plants. 😉

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

Vintage bikes make the perfect spot to grow flowers.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

And, crooked bird houses add some whimsy to chippy trellis’.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

This $3 crusty, wobbly bench was the perfect addition behind our garage.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

And, these huge windows were exactly what I was looking for for the side of our garage. We just brought them home from a barn sale and I am hoping to add some window boxes full of flowers to them.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

This area in our yard is always evolving. We keep adding, moving and taking out plants as it needs it.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

A rusty chair, a big pot of flowers, and an old window frame with a couple of bird houses is all we needed in this corner.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

I just picked up this sun flower at a yard sale. I painted it red to match the flowers popping up all around it and then, my daughter added raffia to it so the birds could use it to build their nests. 😉

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

This chair was another recent find.

The orange color with the dark green peeking out was perfection and we needed another seat around the fire pit.

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

 

This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

We spend a lot of time outside when the weather is nice so I want it to be a welcoming “space” just like the inside of our home. Things are always changing and evolving in our yard too. Just like the inside, if you come over twice in one week, you would probably see something different. It’s just the way things go around here. 😉

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This Summer Outdoor Tour is packed full of different ways that we repurpose things to add to our yard and garden. Click over to see all of the summer outdoor tours from my blogging friends and I.

Make sure to stop by these other fabulous tours to see the outside of their homes:

Summer Outdoor Tour Blog Hop:

Summer Garden tour and outdoor Spaces Hop

Monday

Lehman Lane

Our House Now a Home

The Dean’s List

Green with Décor

2 Bees in a Pod – Vicki’s House

Summer Garden Tour / Outdoor Spaces Hop

Tuesday

Two Purples Couches

Knock it Off Kim

Summer Garden tour and blog hop

Wednesday

2 Bees in a Pod – Jennifer’s house

My Life from Home

Average but Inspired

Refresh  Living

Summer Garden tour and blog hop

Thursday

Little Bits of Home

The Honeycomb Home

Iris Nacole

Twelve on Main

Beauteeful Living

Summer Garden tour and blog hop

Friday

Hunt & Host

Simple Nature Décor

Love Your Abode

My Creative Days

Follow Along with all the garden tours by following #gardentourbloghop

 

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