 You can open your eyes in three, two, one! I woke up today through on my summer picnic shirt because we are doing an outdoor makeover. Over the past couple of years on my channel, you guys have seen me makeover spaces ranging from bedrooms, living rooms, bathrooms, and really everything in between. So today I thought, why not conquer something I have never actually worked on before and that is an outdoor space? I'm also super thrilled to say that today's video is sponsored by the Home Depot. They sent over so many incredible outdoor necessities for this space because I am surprising my manager with an outdoor makeover. I've had the same manager for about two years now. Her name is Miriam and she is absolutely incredible. And she recently moved into a new apartment over in Santa Monica area and she has such a cute little backyard space. I went over for dinner one night recently and I was like, I need to make over this backyard. So I thought, why not go ahead and surprise her while she is gone for the next seven days in Texas I'm going to be making over her backyard space. Miriam has done so much for me over the past two years and I'm so excited to be giving this back to her and I also really want to do her living room as well. So we'll see how that goes, but I'm going to go ahead and jump on into the inspiration and we can start mood boarding and kind of concepting this space out because I literally have no idea what I want to do. So let's get started. When pulling inspo for this space, I really wanted to go with a more neutral palette. There's a large pink bush in the backyard. So I wanted to ensure that the pink bush was kind of statement and everything around it just enhanced it and overall just made the space feel really nice and inviting. Not to mention it is a rented space. So everything does need to be renter friendly, of course. And this was all made possible because of the Home Depot. The Home Depot has all of the top quality products that you need to help take your outdoor space to the next level this season, which is exactly what we're doing in Miriam's outdoor space. As you could see, they have so many different items to choose from, whether it be furniture, landscaping, gardening, power equipment, storage, sheds, lawnmowers. Home Depot truly has you covered. And not to mention, the Home Depot also offers project ideas and attachments so that you can easily entertain outdoors. Now I wanna go ahead and break up the backyard space into three main sections. So the first one's going to be our grilling section. So of course we need a nice trigger grill for that section. I also wanna have a really comfy sitting area. So I was thinking a patio outdoor sectional would be perfect for that space. And then another more like dining area with a little miniature dining table and a couple of chairs. So here's what I ended up getting from the Home Depot. I opted for this really great outdoor sectional. I loved the color of the wood along with the light toned cushions. It also came with the coffee table, which was amazing. Miriam and her roommate actually really enjoyed cooking. So I thought this Traeger Pro Series 22 Grill was perfect and it was in a bronze color, which I loved. I also got a couple sets of these string lights just so we can add those nice vibes during the nighttime. And last but not least, Miriam actually already owned this dining set which is available on Home Depot's website. So I'll link all of these below for you guys. But all I have to do now is just wait for them to come in and we could start working on the space. Hello you guys. I am in an environment that I normally am not seen in, which is outdoor. Well, at least not seen it on my channel, you know? Like I've never really done an outdoor makeover before. This is my first ever outdoor space I'm transforming. And I'm so excited that it's for my manager because this is gonna be a fun little area. She has a super cute backyard area. It is not too big. It's not too small. So I figured this is a perfect space for me to kind of test out my outdoor skills. I have never done an outdoor space before. And honestly, it is so much different than an interior space. Like interior and exterior design is two totally different things. So essentially I'm going to be enhancing this space as much as I possibly can, which I'm very excited for. But today we are focusing on a little bit more of a tedious task, but a really unique and fun one to say the least. Now this morning I stopped by Home Depot on my way here. I picked up a Ryobi pressure washer. But not only am I pressure washing the cement, I'm pressure washing over the top of a concrete stencil. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of these before, but these are essentially stencils that you can place over the top of your concrete. You're gonna pressure wash inside of the bricks to reveal essentially a faux cobblestone look. I do not know how long this is gonna take. I don't know how it's gonna work. I've never used a pressure washer. I've never stenciled. So this should be fun, but we're gonna do it together and crossing our fingers that it works you guys. So let's go ahead and get started. As I wanted to save a little bit of time because I wanted to pressure wash the stencil into the ground and then give it time to dry so we can actually see what it was gonna look like. I didn't want to start and not like the process. So I went ahead and I pressure washed two sets of the stencil and you guys, it looks so good. I cannot believe how white this concrete is getting by the way, that is crazy. I think I might even pressure wash the bricks back here as well, but the thing I think I'm gonna change is actually the orientation. I think I'm gonna do it diagonally because I feel like it will make it look a little bit more organic. When it's very linear, you can actually kind of tell that it's stenciled because it's very symmetrical. So I'm hoping that just the diagonal method will make it appear maybe a little bit less symmetrical and maybe just overall appear a little bit more organic. If you're heading for the coast, voice is up ahead. I slept on a pair of boots and I got to work, you guys. This was not hard at all. It was just very time consuming. I believe the entire floor took me about four to five hours to do, which I mean, isn't too bad, but it was time consuming. Now the register marks on the outside of the stencil make it super easy to align up and essentially you are washing the concrete where the brick shape's gonna go. And then the dirt that's left behind is actually gonna act as the grout line. So this is totally renter friendly. You can wash away the grout line in the future with a pressure washer if you'd like to and kind of keep this really fun cobblestone pattern. For insulating the gold. It has been about 45 minutes since I last talked to you and I finished this first panel here with our diagonal stencil and it looks brick and good. I'm not gonna lie, it always looks very stark when it is wet, but as it dries, it's gonna be a little bit more tone on tone, which we love. So I'm gonna continue working on to this section, this section and then that section there. It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. It is now probably three hours after I started and I think this is where I'm going to stop for the day. Now I wasn't sure if I wanted to do all of the entire area or go ahead and just do like one little more focal area and I think I'm just gonna go ahead and stick with these three panels for now and if I wanna add more later, I totally can. I have the stencil, I have the pressure washer, I will catch you guys back here tomorrow morning. I wanna put together some of the furniture, I have some string lights to hang, some vibes to create and some DIY projects as well. So I will see you guys in the morning. Good morning everyone, it is the next morning and I have some bittersweet news I feel like. So of course the stencil ended up drying overnight. I came back this morning and I wanna share with you guys the current state of what it looks like. It's a little bit challenging to film because the sun is beating down directly at the moment but as you can see this patch right here actually ended up turning out pretty good but as we move over to the left side you can kind of see how the pattern starts to phase out a little bit and I believe that that is because I think the concrete over in this area was just so much dirtier than the concrete over in this area here but honestly I'm just gonna go ahead and work with what we have here because you can still kind of see a subtle pattern through and I think once we have all the furniture and everything it's just gonna enhance the flooring. All around I just thought it was gonna look a little bit more even and smooth and just pretty but I mean this still looks nice. It has like a nice little vintage touch. Let's just say that. But the thing that I wanna start working on it this morning is actually getting some of the furniture and larger pieces that Home Depot sent over kind of assembled and in their position so we can see what we need to add, what I wanna DIY, what I basically just wanna do to the space. A lot of you guys probably know that I enjoy building furniture. It's something I do like. I feel like it's a little bit therapeutic for me and this piece from Home Depot in particular was so fricking simple to put together. I cannot tell you how easy this was. I really thought I was gonna take it out of the box and have to piece every single part of it together but the larger sections were already done for you so you just used a couple of screws to connect those together and I believe the whole sectional took me around 45 minutes to build from start to finish which I think was pretty quick. The underside of this piece actually has these little connectors which made it super simple to connect up the entire sectional so that none of the pieces disconnected from each other. Then I went ahead and placed down all of the cushions and I love this color. It just goes perfectly with the concrete and the pink flowers and the ivy and the wood and it complements and contrasts with the wood tone very nicely as well and I love that this also came with a matching coffee table. Couch has successfully been built you guys and it looks really, really nice over here. I love just how this kind of bush kind of goes over there and then we have the ivy here, the bricks back there, the wood. This is just a really nice kind of silhouette there. Birds are chirping. There she is. I see her over there. Do you see her up there? And surprisingly, you guys, this was super easy to build. It was nice because all of the main components were already built for you. You're more so just like connecting up the pieces. So we're gonna move over to the opposite side of the bush and this is gonna be our little grill section. So I'm gonna start unboxing the grill that Home Depot sent because I'm very excited to see the color. So we're gonna set that up right over here. I am not gonna lie to you guys. I was a little bit intimidated to put together a grill. I've never done that before. You know, grills are, they're a heavier piece of equipment so I wanted to make sure I was doing it properly. But really all I had to do was just screw the legs on, screw this little side handle on, the front handle and that was really all. It was very, very easy. I would say out of a one out of 10, how hard it was, it was a two out of 10, super easy. Grill is in place and the color is so pretty. This is the shade bronze and I loved whether it looks with the black there. It kind of relates back to our warm tone of wood in the furniture, which is really nice. And then inside of course, we have a couple racks for grilling on. There's a little chimney over here, which I think adds a cute little touch to this grill vibe. And then over on the left side here, you can actually add your wood pellet so that way you can smoke inside of your grill if you wanted to do so. So very happy with this. And I think Miriam's going to love having this grill here. It's a perfect size for this little corner alcove as well. So very happy with that. My hair looks crazy. Once again, I swear outdoor makeovers are making me have a bad hair day, but you know what? It is worth it. Pressure washed all of the concrete over here. It's currently drying and I moved their current dining table into position or not dining table, but outdoor kind of dining table. This is actually from Home Depot as well. They had purchased this a while back. It's still available for you guys. So I will make sure to link it below for you. We're going to liven up this wall a little bit right here. It's going to be a lot of fun. So I'll see you guys in the morning. Stopping at Home Depot this morning to pick up a couple of supplies for the little DIY herb garden that I want to create. So my first stop of course was to gather my herbs. I got the Bonnie herbs, which are from Home Depot. They are incredible, incredible quality. They have so many different types of herbs, fruits, vegetables, whatever you want. And it is DIY time you guys. So I used three, two by four pine boards, six wall-mounted potholders, which you can find at Home Depot, two inch wood screws, a power drill. I also used a miter saw. And last but not least, just some wood stain to, of course, stain our wood. So the first step is actually going to be cutting off 16 inches off of your eight foot long board. So we're essentially making our ladder be six foot and six inches tall. So here I am cutting off 16 inches. I'm going to use that same scrap piece and go over to our second piece, draw the line and cut off that extra 16 inches. So that we have two symmetrical board lengths. Now what I'm doing here is I'm actually measuring in one and a half inches on the top. And then I'm measuring four inches down. And I'm going to create two lines, which I'm then going to connect together like this to create this little triangle section. I'm actually going to bring this over to the saw and cut this little triangle out. And this is going to make the ladder lean a lot nicer on the wall and kind of almost grasp the wall a little bit. On your third, two by four, you're going to want to go ahead and cut out three 25 inch pieces of wood. These are going to be the horizontal bars of our ladder. So just cut those out of your third piece. And then we're going to start constructing the ladder itself. So I actually measured down 16 inches from the top of one of our legs. And this is where our first horizontal bar is going to go. So I measured 16 inches down, placed it on top. And I just traced around it with a pencil because I'm going to want to drill some pilot holes later. Now in between each horizontal bar, I'm just doing 12 inches. This is the perfect amount of length for our little pots we're going to be adding later. So I went ahead and I just traced again around that section. So I know exactly where that wood piece is going to go. And the easiest way to get symmetrical holes is just to stack both of the legs of your ladder on top of each other. Use your first one that you have created the template on top of with the wood and just drill two pilot holes through each section that you traced out as shown here. Now, once you finish this, you can go ahead and just use some wood screws to connect the entire ladder together. So in those two pilot holes that you created, it now is super simple to know exactly where you want your horizontal bars to be. And that's why I traced them out to start. Then I used some two inch long wood screws to go ahead and connect those pieces together. Now, once you have one side fully connected, I found it was easiest to just go ahead and connect to the second side while the ladder was standing up just so you can see exactly where you want those pieces to go. Alrighty, so this is kind of the structure that's going to be built for the base of the earth garden. And these little horizontal slats here are going to be where the pots are going to go. I got a little pot holder for each pot. So there's going to be six of them on there. But the reason I cut the little angles at the top was so that it kind of mounted a little bit nicer to the top of the wall there. I'm going to go ahead and stain this quickly and then we can add the pots to it. Breaking out my favorite wood stain, this is early American. It is such a perfect, dark, warm, kind of vintagey tone wood color, which I love. So I went ahead and I just stained the entire ladder base with this wood stain because the next step that we're actually going to do is be applying on the little ring pot holders. These are actually found directly at Home Depot. They're $3 a piece. So I ended up picking up six of these. And how I attached them was actually measuring in six and a half inches from each side of the ladder. I created a vertical line as shown here. And I just basically placed it right over top, ensuring that the vertical line went directly through the two little holes on that little pot holder. And I screwed them in using a couple of screws. And once I had all of my pot holder sections screwed in, we were able to go ahead and place the potted plants inside of each. But let me share with you guys how I potted these. So of course, I went ahead and used the Bonnie herbs. I used a ton of different herbs just because I really wanted this to be a cute little herb garden. And I got a couple of terracotta pots also super affordable from the Home Depot. I poured in some soil and I just planted my herbs in each. Now I am not a gardener, but I do know that you're kind of supposed to break up the roots a little bit when you de-pot and then re-pot a plant. So I broke them up a little bit, used some excess soil just to pack it in on top and ensure these were perfect in their new little terracotta pot home. And then once I had them all planted, I was able to slip them into each of the rings and that finished off our little herb garden. Good morning you guys. It is the last day of the makeover. Miriam's actually gonna be home in about two hours and I want to piece this together. We are going to be adding all of the decor, all of the finishing touches. And also I apologize for not even talking to you guys yesterday or the last time I filmed. I literally just did my little DIY, fixed a couple of things and left on my way to go edit a little bit. I actually spent all morning just going around and finding some decor for the space just to enhance it a little bit. I found an outdoor rug. Let's go ahead and add the finishing touches and we can reveal this space to Miriam when she gets home in about two hours. Her roommate's gonna go pick her up at the airport in a little bit. So this is going to be an exciting reveal. Oh, I also forgot to mention you guys that the lights were hung up. I don't know if you could see those. So I got an extension cord so I can connect that up. I'm gonna run it around the flooring that way. It didn't have to go down the wall over here. I thought it would look not that great if there was like a bright orange extension cord down the wall. So I'm doing it around at the bottom of the floor and kind of just kind of tuck it into the underside of the brick, which I think should work. So yeah, let's get started on it styling at the sectional area. Now when it came to styling the sectional, I knew I wanted to keep it simple, but cute, but chic, but elevated, but classy. There was a lot of different vibes I wanted to go for. So I did a little bit of a mixture of these striped pillows with the jute pillows with those little white textural lumbars. And then I also threw down a round rug, which I love this because in an indoor space, I would never do something like this, like throw down a round rug and offset the coffee table. I don't know why, but outside, I just feel like it goes so well. I threw a couple of floor pillows down just to make it really inviting. And I also added this little lantern. So I went ahead, I had my extension cord. I ran it around the like perimeter of the backyard and I actually wrapped it with masking tape just to kind of camouflage it a little bit more in this area. All right, you guys, I just got word from Miriam's roommate that she is home, they just pulled up and I'm basically going to surprise her. She has no idea any of this has been happening while she is gone. This is the first time I've done like a full on surprise. So I guess we should just go ahead and see if she's out there. You guys, she doesn't know, she doesn't know anything that's happening. Hello. What are you doing? Oh, I'm just in your backyard. Oh, there's no boxes here. So I know we were talking about your backyard space. It feels so weird, you guys, probably why I'm right here. I know we were talking about your backyard. So while you were gone in Texas for the past week, I actually made over your entire backyard space because you have the cutest backyard and I thought we could totally do something really fun. And so I want to reveal it to you. Wait, let me see. I am dying. Let's go, we're running back. Drew. A little bit this way. A little bit this way. Okay, this is a good spot right here, I think. While you're gone, I did a little backyard transformation and I just want to reveal it to you. So I guess you can open your eyes in three, two, one. Oh my God. So cute. This is so cute, you guys. I know. It looks so... Oh my God. Oh yeah, okay, so the floor. I actually stenciled it and the nice thing about the floor is that, well, not the nice thing. It didn't work all the way over here but it's kind of nice how it fades from up. This really stenciled area and it's retro friendly too. I just like literally pressure washed it with a stencil. And take a seat. Oh my gosh. This is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Isn't this so cute? We have the grilling section. Yes. And I got you a trigger grill. Oh my God. You know I love grills. Yes, I know that you and your roommate really love cooking. So I thought this would be a really nice addition and it's like small and it's cute because it's kind of thromzy. I thought it was a little bit feminine. I love it, I love the color. Do you like it? I'm just really excited to see it at night time. Oh my God. Because I haven't had to see it at night time yet. And I look at it and it's really cute. It's really such a vibe. I feel like we'll all sit over there and I'll have a light on. Like we can have like a little party like this. It's just perfect. Look at your vibe. I think I know. This is the best design I've ever seen in my life. And you guys, that finishes off this outdoor makeover. I hope that you enjoyed this video. It was unlike anything I've ever done before. It's my first outdoor space and it was so much fun. The backyard definitely has so many really cute qualities such as the brick, you know, the wood. We have these vines, which definitely help. And I just love absolutely everything Home Depot sent over and I can't believe I did a surprise. Like I am somebody that gets so nervous about surprising somebody. I don't know if you guys are like that at all. Like even when I watch like TikToks or like even when I watch like random things on social media where I know someone's getting surprised I have to click out before they get surprised because I get nervous myself. The birds are chirping, which is a good sign. I think they like it as well. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. I just wanna thank Home Depot so much again for making this video possible and sending over these incredible outdoor pieces for my manager's backyard. Home Depot truly has everything that you guys need for outdoor, whether it be furniture, decor, you know, power tools, lawnmowers, sheds, whatever you need, they have it. So definitely check out the Home Depot linked in the description box below. And I would love to know also if you were to do this outdoor space what would you have done differently or would you have done the same thing? I would love to hear you guys' ideas because honestly outdoor is a bit challenging for me. It's a new area. So I'd love to know what you would have done in this space. So leave a comment below and I'll catch you guys in at my next one. Have an amazing rest of your day. Bye guys. Thanks again to the Home Depot for sponsoring this video.