Get the Backyard of Your Dreams With These Affordable Ideas From HGTV's Desert Flippers

Dress the floor with more. It's not always in the budget to add a concrete patio to expand an outdoor living space, and grass is messy in high traffic areas. So we use artificial turf to define a new outdoor dining room instead. It provides color and function to an otherwise drab space and is drought tolerant and low maintenance. We love to take existing trees and shape them to create a natural canopy of shade with hanging lanterns and colorful plants to complete the ambience.