Enjoy Your Outdoor Living Space All Year
Mission
OpenBackyard is a practical guide to outdoor living. It covers the gear and the everyday fixes that decide whether a backyard, patio, or deck actually gets used: patio umbrellas, outdoor furniture and how to clean it, fire pits, lighting, rugs, and folding chairs. Folding chairs are where the site started and where it still goes deepest, so that is where you will find the most detailed buying and care help.
“A backyard is only as good as the parts you actually use. The right chair, an umbrella that holds in wind, a fire pit set up safely, and furniture that survives winter matter more than how any of it looks in a catalog.”
Most outdoor advice online is either thin or written to sell you something. The hard part is rarely the big purchase. It is the specifics: which umbrella survives wind, how to get the gray off white plastic chairs, how far a fire pit needs to sit from the house, whether outdoor cushions can stay out overnight.
Our aim is to give you straight, useful answers on the things that make a yard usable, from folding chairs and outdoor seating to umbrellas, fire pits, lighting, and furniture care, so you can decide what to buy and how to look after it without wading through marketing.