2015

Meet the Elizondo family from Morgan Hill, CA. As first time home buyers they were beyond excited to finally move into their beautiful new built home, especially after 6 months of customizing it with the builder. Everything was just as they picked out but the backyard was a bare dirt lot. On the brighter side, it was a fresh clean slate to fill in with their ideas of their dream backyard.

As DIY’ers, we are just that, Do-It-Yourselfer's! Depending on your woodworking skill level or experience in building large structures sometimes the job is better left to the professionals.

We love inspiring people to believe in the possibility of transforming their own backyards just as we did… so DIY Backyard Planning.com was born. We hired a professional designing firm to put together all the building plans and created this website to be the resource that we wish we stumbled upon when we were in the design and planning phase.

You raced to get to the fun part of the assembly of your fire-pit = the tiling. The time when the gray sheet-rock gets transformed to a beautiful butterfly. But wait- how do you handle the tiling when you have an uneven ground surface to work with? Follow these 3 steps to deal with this the way professional tillers do.

Don’t be overwhelmed by all that goes into creating your dream backyard – just take it one step at a time. Before you know it, you’ll be enjoying your fruits of your labor. Even if it takes a year to bring it all together, transforming your backyard is so rewarding and such a worthwhile addition to your home that will boost your backyard living for many years to come. To get you going on the right path and give you the motivation to get started, The DIY Backyard Planning team put together a checklist that addresses the key 5 steps…

Turning your outdoor space into an eye popping, fully functional, luxurious space takes extensive research and careful planning. In most cases, where utilities are being laid and concrete is being poured - there is no turning back on your layout. These 9 must-know backyard design tips will be essential to assist you through the design stage.