10 Reasons to Create Your Backyard Beach

With the global pandemic, our once harried world is learning to slow down. A few months ago, you left your home to go to a local bar, hang out with friends, catch a movie, or grab tickets to the latest concert or ball game.

That’s all changed.

More than ever, we are learning to enjoy a slower pace of life. Confined, for the most part, to our neighborhoods and houses, we are all searching for more ways to find enjoyment and joy closer to home.

Even vacationing, once just a normal, expected part of life, is now called into question.

When will you and your family be able to travel again? What about that plan to fly to a tropical island and let your worries fall away? Vacations are a place to find relief from the day-to-day stresses of life. How ironic that, when the world could use vacations the most, the option is off the table.

You have an amazing opportunity to do something about this now. 

Your backyard can transport you to that place of your dreams. Better yet, you can go there anytime you want! No need to purchase tickets, pack your bags, or race to the airport terminal. Just open your door and step out into your own version of paradise.

Your backyard retreat is only limited by your imagination.

There are many ways to build a tropical paradise in your backyard and it doesn’t need to take your life savings. With a little sweat equity, your backyard can feel like a retreat from the day-to-day.

If you need any convincing that a backyard paradise is right for you, here is a list of 10 important reasons to create your backyard beach today.

1 – Safeguard Your Health

Stress is a silent killer. More and more of us are suffering from it each day.

You owe it to yourself to schedule time to unwind and let the worries of the day melt away. You need a place to breathe and recapture your positive outlook.

It’s so hard to get away for any length of time to decompress.

A beach retreat in your backyard is one positive step you can make today to live a more relaxed lifestyle. It’s available every day for your enjoyment and you don’t need to schedule time away from your family and home responsibilities to enjoy it.

Just imagine coming home from a hard day of work, kicking off your shoes, and walking out into your own tropical paradise. You pull up a lounge chair, grab a relaxing beverage, listen to your favorite mellow tunes, and breathe deeply.

2 – Connect with Family

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3 – Strengthen Your Relationship

Do you find it impossible to get away with your loved one for a date, let alone for a vacation for two? Creating a romantic evening in your backyard takes very little planning, costs almost nothing, and can even save you the cost of a babysitter!

You can be spontaneous! Under the soft lighting of tiki torches, twinkling lights, or candles, you can really keep the home fires burning. Date night can be every night.

4 – Spend Quality Time with Friends

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5 – Decrease Your Dining Out Budget

There’s no argument that eating and drinking at home is far less expensive than going out to a restaurant. Your beer, wine, and drink budget will go much further if you are the bartender in your own outdoor bar.

Dinner will always be cooked to order and just to your liking at your backyard beach grill.

6 – Increase the Value of Your Home

Depending on what you choose to add to your backyard beach could determine how much value is added to your home.

According to Houselogic and HGTV, adding a pool to your backyard can increase the value of your home by 5 – 8%.

Adding usable space to your backyard by creating seating areas, patios, porches, fire pits, and other walking areas creates a welcoming environment, not only for yourself and your friends, but for potential home buyers down the road.

7 – Create a Party Destination

A tropical backyard lends itself to many theme ideas for parties. Once restrictions clear and family and friends begin to congregate in bigger numbers, we will party again.

A backyard retreat is a great place to create a special event or party. Think tiki parties, beach-themed celebrations, child-friendly pool parties, and intimate backyard guitar concerts surrounded by family and friends. Just make sure to invite the neighbors!

8 – Designate No Driver

When the party is in your backyard, you don’t need to designate a driver. There are no cab, Uber, or Lyft fees either. You don’t even need to tip the valet! Just take a stroll back to the house from your tiki lounge, beach bar, poolside cabana, or fire pit.

The commute home will be short and sweet.

9 – Always a Pet-Friendly Patio

Due to health codes, most restaurants can’t be friendly to our fur-babies.

10 – Increase Your Time “At the Beach”

Let’s face it – getting to the beach, whether you drive or fly, takes effort and planning. Unless you live right on the beach (lucky you!), there are costs involved – gas, travel items, plane tickets, hotel stays, dining out, etc.

Most of us cannot afford to go to the beach all the time. There’s something so relaxing about a beach – water, sand, laughter, cool breezes, the rustle of palm trees, salty sea air…

While you can’t always go to the beach, your backyard can transport you to your favorite tropical paradise at any time.

It simply takes a bit of planning, some do-it-yourself know-how (or a big enough budget to hire out), and a vision of how you want to transform your backyard.

Are you ready to begin?