Add sparkle to your small backyard with stylish decorations on a budget







Whether you live in an apartment, condo, townhouse, loft, or house that has more indoors than outdoors, you can still create a garden with soil, trees, plants, patios, seating, and even water features.

We’ve found different designs and solutions for small backyards and patios, from urban to suburban and everything in between.

Kathryn Prideaux works magic with small spaces in Tucson and other Arizona cities, infusing the colors of the sky, surrounding terrain and nature into her landscape designs for patio homes and condominiums. She expertly fuses styles and materials: rejuvenating mid-century modern patio furniture, adding rustic materials, finding innovative uses for colorful tiles, and incorporating sculptural forms and succulents.

Although Tucson’s Skyline Springs condominium complex has a pool, the owners of this unit wanted a private pool. Prideaux Design, with the help of Cimarron Circle Construction Company, designed a stunning blue glass mosaic pool as the centerpiece of the yard, with a ledge for in-pool lounge chairs as the desert temperatures rise. Additional features include a cast etched concrete patio, rusted steel panels and walls, original adobe block walls and a revitalized vintage Brown Jordan patio.