We recently finished your first big "new home project" beyond moving in and painting some rooms. Our backyard was starting to slope off into the green space behind our house, causing our fence to lean over and a big decline to form in the yard. We had great fears that this little mudslide happening in our own backyard would soon cause our foundation to move, which in turn would cause our house to literally fall apart - not an ideal situation. So, Jim took down the fence and we had a new, stone retaining wall built.
During the project:
After: We really loved how taking down the fence opened up the area and let a lot more sunshine onto our yard. We had some stairs put in so we could easily access the green space behind our house.
The good looking wall...
View from the deck of the green space:
So, we are feeling pretty good on how things turned out - we really liked our contractor and think he did great work. We now feel like our whole backyard isn't going to slide off to the abyss. Also, we feel the need to pat ourselves on the back since we were showing our "adult side" by actually getting this taken care of, rather than splurge on a vacation or other treat. Our small backyard feels more open and we now are deciding how to tame the green space to our advantage so we can actually enjoy the area back there. Any suggestions? A garden? Fire pit? Sand box? Oh... the possibilities!
2 comments:
You are such adults! Way to be responsible!
As for the green space, if my kids had a vote they would say sandbox. Maybe you could put in a garden and clubhouse too!
wow! i really like it! we'll have to come and see it in person...
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