My mini backyard makeover #KmartOutdoor

We have two acres of land with our house but most of it is wooded so we don't really do all that much with it except enjoy the privacy. The open land we do have, we've spent most of our time putting in gardens, berry bushes, and fruit trees and that has left us with very productive growing spaces but a very unsatisfying area for entertaining and relaxing.

Right now our current entertaining area consists of this 15 year old picnic table. Yup. That's it. Just the picnic table. We do have a Old Smokey Grill already that we burn wood in for cookouts but other than that, we don't really have an area to entertain friends and family in.

When I was given the opportunity to do a mini makeover in my backyard I jumped for joy. Finally an area I could entertain in. I'd been checking out the various backyard make over posts on other bloggers' sites and was particularly impressed with the makeover done by French Country Cottage. I love how she used a common theme for her makeover and I knew I wanted mine to have a theme as well. The French Country Cottage look didn't really go with our 1865 New England Farmhouse so I knew I had to come up with my own theme.

I had $300 to work with for my mini backyard make over. I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted or how far $300 would go since I'd never shopped for backyard items before. While I admired some of the table and chair sets, I knew they wouldn't work for us. In Vermont, we have about 3-4 feet of snow on the ground each year. Anything that gets left outside all year underneath all that snow doesn't last very long. We don't have a garage or storage space to store anything large so I knew what I purchased had to be able to be folded up easily for storage.

I headed off to the store to see what I could find. I really like Americana so I was hoping to go with a red, white and blue theme. I was thrilled to find a bunch of things that were red, white and blue and managed to put together a pretty good looking mini makeover.

What do you think?

Before

 

 After

For the whole visit and what I found, check out This Moment.

You'll see close ups of each area and what I used to create my new look. Total cost $280.96.

Little square table $19.99
Bracket to hang our own bird feeder $1.99
Tricycle planter $39.99
2 red steel chairs $63.98
2 red PVC chaise lounges $47.98
red solar lantern $11.99
2 white wave petunias $9.38
6 gerber daises $23.94
bag of bird food $17.99
pair gardening gloves .89
2 red flower pots $20.78
tablecloth $3.74

Wow I had no idea I could find so much at KMart to make over my yard!

Disclosure: This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. All opinions remain mine and mine alone.