Will the mower etc be moving to a garage or shed?

Good and congrats on your first home. It is a little tight. I would put a love seat bench with outdoor pillows closest to the doors with a colorful rug. Next, a round table with four chairs and an umbrella for shade. Put the grill on the end, facing the doors.

I guess I should ask the dimensions of the deck.

It is nice to tie the colors to the indoors. You can use a bistro set if you don’t have room for a bigger table. I love commercial outdoor lights, especially with a remote. I just hung some this summer and wish I hadn’t waited so long.

How many in your family or # do you want to entertain out there?

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First - congratulations on being a homeowner!

Patio looks to be in kinda rough shape but a power wash and paint may do wonders to extend the life for a couple of years if you have more important places to spend money right now. It's pretty narrow so the trick will be keeping it simple and not cluttered. Door opens next to the house so keep that area open for traffic. Maybe an outdoor cabinet/bar to the right of the window (or on the other side to the left of the post) and a small table and chairs on the uncovered portion. Keep potted plants in strategic areas depending upon where you put furniture and traffic flow (such as outside corner by door, far corner(s) or next to post). I'd say add wall decor on the right by the table area but as you have brick not sure I'd recommend attaching things unless you plan to keep it longer-term. If you like climbing plants or bamboo (and it works in your planting zone) maybe make a "green" wall with a long, narrow planter box and trellis (if necessary). Warm up the area with outdoor rugs in both sections. Longer-term plan should be to replace and enlarge to make it more functional.

I had a tiny, tiny deck in my last home. I had a grill out there, and a square table with four chairs. Since it was just me and SO, we usually only had two chairs out there, they were folding chairs which we could keep in the basement and take out when we had company. Then we had a small swing but you could get a small loveseat. They make really cute folding chairs and tables which you could have on hand if you ever wanted to entertain more folks out there. We also had a fold-able, portable fire pit which we could set up and set our chairs around if we wanted to have a campfire.

I'd also recommend some plantings and maybe a wind chime or water feature to bring a pleasant calm sound out there, sometimes needed to block out noisy neighbors. It doesn't have to be something elaborate, a really small fountain is the easiest to maintain. Looks like you have NOTHING in the rest of the yard, so I'd plant some shade trees, small ones that bloomed pretty in spring and something called a pleasure garden, which is something you put across from your seating area to give you something nice to look at. Does not need to be elaborate, and I can't really say what you will like to look at. It could even be a series of metal wall art hung on the fence . . . you know best what floats your boat. But my top priority would be getting some shade trees in, and now is a GREAT time to plant trees and other perennial plants. Great time to find deck furniture on sale too.

Congratulations on your new home! I agree with comments above that suggest power washing and staining for now. A few chairs and small table for sitting and relaxing is a good idea as is a small outdoor table and chairs for outdoor dining. I love the outdoor lights strung under my covered area and I think you would as well. I would also replace the light fixture with something in a bronze or black that will stand out against the brick. If you use something like this with a plug in it, it will give you a place to plug in a string of lights.

Potted plants in pretty pots as suggested will also brighten things up.

Will you be working on the fence as well?

I have an old deck and so do many of my neighbors. Beware of power washing an older wood deck. You can damage the wood by raising the grain and driving the dirt and algae/moss into the wood. A neighbor did this and it's never looked the same. Better to just use a stiff brush that screws into a long handle. If you still think it needs more after a scrubbing, use an oxalic acid wash meant for decks.

I'd just give it a good scrubbing, skip the oxalic acid, and use 2 thin coats of a solid stain. You'll be surprised how good it looks.

As far as the light fixture suggested above, my son used this exact one, right beside the sliding door to his deck. It is much larger than the light it replaced - it hangs lower and sticks out further. Every single one of us has banged our head on a corner of it and we're going to replace it with a much smaller and rounder light before one of us need to go to the ER.

I used the hose end version of this from one of the big box stores and it worked great on my grubby deck.

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