Our exciting backyard project is...a patio! We had planned on taking on this endeavor in two weeks, but yesterday it got pushed up a week so we will be hard at work next weekend! The pavers, gravel and sand are ordered, the tools are reserved for rental (now we just have to figure out how to get them since we only have a compact and mid-size car and they require at least an SUV if not a truck), and family is coming down to help. Everything is being delivered/picked up on Friday. We have someone coming to dig out the area early Saturday morning and that's when the real fun begins!
Here's what the backyard looked like when we moved in almost 2 years ago:
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| Nice pile of dirt! |
The builder only sodded 20 or so feet from the house. Nice. They hydro-seeded all that dirt, but it obviously did nothing. :) Instead of doing the patio last summer and ripping up most of the actual grass we had, we decided to put that money into sod for the rest of the yard.
Now here's a look at our current backyard:
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| Our 3 square-foot "step-out" |
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| Looking to the right |
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| Looking to the left |
Now completely covered with grass. And we're about to rip up a lot of it! Excellent! :)
I can't find any good pictures online of the pattern we're planning on, so that will be a surprise. :) The patio will be a rectangle with two corners "cut off" and an octagon attached. The pavers are all rectangles and squares with skinny rectangles for the edging.
It's sure to be an exciting weekend! As long as I don't look at the credit card bill... :-P
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