Bring Character to Your Backyard: 5 Weekend Projects

Beautify the backyard with these character-boosting outdoor projects. We'll show you how to make an outdoor room, decorative privacy panel, garden arbor, fire pit, and pebble mosaic walkway.

Construct an Outdoor Room

Grow an open-air pavilion. Four plum trees define the rustic backyard getaway atop pea gravel. As they fill in, the trees' twining branches will supply foliage to cover the supports. In three to five years, after the branches intertwine sufficiently, you'll be able to remove the stakes and supports.

Follow the steps that begin on the next slide.