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Home » 5 Practical Tips for Outdoor Entertaining
5 Practical Tips for Outdoor Entertaining

5 Practical Tips for Outdoor Entertaining

04/06/2019 By Deborah T

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Need practical tips for outdoor entertaining? We spend our summer evenings outdoors more than inside. You’ll often find us on our patio on the fair-weather evenings chatting with friends and neighbors (who usually arrive by golf cart).

Here in North Carolina, we are lucky to enjoy warm/hot evenings from March through October, and we love making the most of our backyards.

It seems that we are not alone in this preference. A lot more individuals are treating their backyard as an expansion of the home as they seek to find new ways to spend more time on outdoor living.

Whether it’s a patio, a deck, or an open paved area you could make the most of outdoor entertaining with your buddies and family, or just calming your nerves after a long day at work by enjoying the warmer weather.

Outdoor Entertaining: Toss some shade (and privacy)

Outdoor entertaining is enhanced if you have got the right products.

Some ideas: garden furniture needs to look stylish, yet be long-wearing and not showing any indications of rust. Gazebos look good and provide the necessary shade in those hot days. Market umbrellas are handy.

If you live in a suburban area with the neighbors peeking into your business, set up some privacy for yourselves and your guests.

While shrubs add privacy, they take a long time to grow and require ongoing maintenance.

Instead, opt for a metal privacy screen or trellis. These pieces of artwork bring your yard a hint of the contemporary while protecting your privacy.

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The chic Opal trellis looks chic and adds privacy to your outdoor entertaining.

Alternate Seating: Offer options

A traditional outdoor dining table or even a patio bar is a must. But, what about giving your guests some fun seating alternatives?

Amplify your yard with a hammock, chaise lounge, or garden swing. If you do not have any trees in the garden to hang a hammock from, there are alternative methods for securing one should use hooks which you can drill into most types of walls, either on both ends or coupled with trees, posts, etc.

Support stakes can be dug into the garden, either set in concrete or removable. In almost any event they should be secure so the hammock won’t collapse when in use. Hammock stands are available and come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and prices. Swing away in a hammock to catch those evening breezes.

Install garden swings from a pergola or a large tree. Consider installing benches that take in your best garden views. 

Let There Be Light

Exterior lighting is vital for entertaining once the moon comes up. Lights may be utilized to highlight features like trees and garden beds, creating focal points and add a dramatic, shadowy effect to your garden. And, of course, good lighting will also help in safety and security.

Add the warm, subtle glow of path lighting around the yard, garden, or grounds with a solar-powered light set. Integrated solar power panels and batteries harness the sun’s power by day, powering the lights by night to show off landscape features or for safer walking around the grounds. Also, you can establish an outdoor basketball hoop for recreation.

With no wires to hookup installation is a snap, just stick them in the ground with the integrated stakes and relish the ambiance.

Solar lights turn on automatically at night’s fall and off at dawn. From solar spotlights to landscaped gardens, to wall lanterns you could make the most of outdoor living with exterior lighting products. For all year round outdoor entertaining then you’ll probably need outdoor heating.

Heating It Up

Heaters are fast becoming an essential item for outside entertaining, and there are various options, both modern and traditional, for heating your patio, backyard, or barbecue area. From pet-safe ceiling-mounted heaters to visually stunning propane fire pits, the heat source will be useful and appreciated if you live in an area with cooler evenings.

 

outdoor entertaining patio heater
Enjoy your garden room into the wee hours of the night by keeping warm around the patio heater.
Party into the wee hours of the night by keeping warm around the patio heater. Don’t battle your neighbors–invite them, too!

Mosquito Patrol

The one thing you will probably wish to do without, however, is the attack by a swarm of mosquitoes. Mosquito control is vital for outdoor entertaining, and taking preventative measures will help to keep your guests safe from their bites.

Some products to try: mosquito coils, citronella candles, and citronella torches are cheap and effective methods of repelling mosquitoes.

Our mosquitoes here in NC are made of heartier stuff, and they don’t fall for those easy methods. They scoff at the citronella oil, go right around it, and bite us anyways.

We’ve implemented drastic measures. Bats. I am terrified of them, but they have been very effective at controlling the mosquito population in our yard.

That said, give some thought to installing bat boxes on your property. Bats are useful to keep around for the very reason of mosquito control. To learn more about how bats can help your garden, read this blog post.

outdoor entertaining
Bats hang around all day and hunt mosquitoes all night.

Get Ready for Summer and Outdoor Entertaining

Now that you are armed with some practical tips for outdoor entertaining make a list and begin planning those projects to get your yard ready for summer entertaining.

Be sure to download a copy of our free Project Planning worksheet to help you determine your needs and costs.

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Plan the most epic parties of the season with these tips.
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Deborah T
Editor and author at DIY Home & Garden, a Word Innovations publication
Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.
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About Deborah T

Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Natural Health from a fully-accredited program and is a Certified Herbologist. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.

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