DO IT! If you're thinking about whether you should or should not buy this for your backyard.....just do it! It completely transformed our outdoor space. Especially during quarantine, when everything was closed. We added string lights and a little plug-in ceiling fan and it turned into our outdoor living room. We ate all our meals under it, spent afternoons watching the kids in the pool under it, we worked under it! It leaks a small amount during large rain storms, you have to buy canopy weights to hold it down in the wind and it is very easy to take dow and set up. We found that if we knew a storm was coming, we could simply take the canopy roof off and the frame could withstand any storm we had. Best purchase of 2020!!