When space inside the house is feeling maxed out, finding solutions outside and expanding the living space by tapping into a backyard's potential can help.
Cool parents, Michelle and Adrian, are passionate about music and events. Brian and Sarah tune into their needs and amp up their boring backyard with a DJ den, a creative arts-and-crafts wall, and hang-out zones for family jam sessions.
Tina and her husband Patrick have a home that is overrun with both baking supplies and soccer equipment. To extend this family's living space, Brian and Sarah turn their backyard into one part cake decorating studio and one part soccer field.
Dave and Jorge love art and entertaining, but with tenants in their basement and no creative space inside, Brian and Sarah turn their backyard into a creative party lounge and build a shipping container-inspired structure for an industrial feel.
Kirsten works from the home office, while Joel is a sales representative with a make-shift workspace in their bedroom. To help this couple, Brian and Sarah look to the backyard for space to retrofit an old shipping container into an office.