Yard Makeover Part 3

So this is the last post about the house this round! I still have a lot of other stuff to blog about so no more house blog for a few blogs! Ha! I am doing this to scrapbook what we have done. We have done all the following since we got back from vacation.

A few months back, a plumber backing out of the neighbor's driveway hit our mailbox. It has had the wobbles ever since. I hated our old mailbox anyway. So Jonathan built and stained the pole and we bought the mailbox and letters!

We got the steps up, now it is time to get the other half of the flowerbed done!

Don't let your eyes deceive you, that is a lot of work! Those rocks are heavy and you have to place them just right so that the dirt won't seep through the holes. You also have to find level rocks that will match up to each other and be wobbly! Backache!!

Flowers ready to go in the ground!

These flowers look tiny compared to the other side! I guess that is what I get for planting them 3 weeks apart! Couldn't help it though! That would be way too much labor to do back to back weekends!

Another shot!

We had two crappy camping chairs on the front porch. We bought these instead! Much better! But we needed a table/beer holder so Jonathan built us a little table! Again, my handyman, hard at work!

I helped him stain part of the table.

I must tell you though, I am not a good stainer. It is not my calling.

He even did the edges all pretty and dog eared.

Ta Da!

This is what our house looks like now. Our next project is going to be getting the rest of that concrete up and the front deck built. We are making stairs coming down off the front porch, on the side there, onto a wood deck. The deck will come out even with the flowerbeds. That ugly concrete will be partly hammered up and partly covered. We have to build a retaining wall along the backside of the concrete to keep water from coming against the house. You won't be able to see it because of the deck.

I just smile looking at it!

This is before. The second time we looked at the house before we bought it. July 2011 will be 2 full years! Look at the difference! It doesn't look like the same house. I sure hope all this hard work pays off when the appraiser comes when we want to refinance or sell!!!!

AFTER!!!!!!

Home Sweet Home!!