Well Wayne and I must be really tired of waiting for landscapers to call us back, or to show up when they say they will, and we wanted to make a least a little bit of our house look decent. So this weekend we tore out all the nasty dead grass that was right by the house, put in a walkway (the previous owners had little 6inx6in stepping stones spread out about 3 feet apart that you had to play leapfrog on to get into the house, they were taken out the very first day we moved in), put in a border, added some shrubs, and some beautious rocks. It looks really good (in fact it looks like it has always been there so I guess we did a good job) and even though we are tired and VERY sore we are soooo happy that we did it.Also, I hated not having a walkway, and I hated more that we couldn't keep that stinkin grass alive no matter what we did. When we were digging up the dirt to put in the walkway we found out why the grass wasn't living, under the sod was about 2 inches of topsoil and then you would think there should be just more dirt, but no, there was a layer of plastic, so the roots of the grass could only grow down 2 inches and that was all. Sometimes I am shocked at the things people do, especially the previous owners of this house. Oh well, we have it now and this house is seriously going to LOVE us because we don't do things halfway, things are done correctly when we do them.
Also, thanks to Jenn and Liam for taking Nathan for the whole day, it's so nice having good friends that are willing to help out whenever it's needed. We love you guys!!!
Please don't laugh too hard at the baby poop colored shutters, they will be painted soon I hope.
Before:
During:
After we tore out the dead sod, it looked better already.
My pretty plants.
Planted the bushes this was actually a REALLY fun part after hauling the nine 80lb walkway pads. I am sooo excited to see these little guys grow.
Putting out the rocks, I have to say that Wayne did all of this while I did the border.
Notice Wayne is wearing shorts, rraaarrr.
After:
Yeah, it looks way better, no more trashy dead grass spots.
Again, my pretty plants.
Our walkway. We are going to put potted flowers in this flowerbed because we didn't want to put bushes here and block out the sun, I now get to go shopping for pots.
The final product.
1 comment:
it looks really really good. One question. Are you going to put gravel all over your driveway?? Just wondering because the little bit of gravel at the end of your sidewalk looks a bit out of place.
But other than that it does look fantastic!
Good work!
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