The porch we used to have
Clay, Jim, Ken, and Bryon working on the new room
This is not a very good picture of the new room, but it's the only one I could find quickly. Sorry!
Clay, Jim, Ken, and Bryon working on the new room
This is not a very good picture of the new room, but it's the only one I could find quickly. Sorry!
First we had some men come in and build a retention wall along the bank of the creek. Jim backfilled dirt to extend the usable surface of our yard. Plus, the wall gives us a nice solid straight foundation for putting up a fence later on.
The retention wall
Daddy Bud tamps down the dirt
All filled in except for topsoil
Jonathan watches his daddy drive the tractor
Jim uses the tractor to move dirt into place (much quicker than the day he moved it by shovel!)
Then we had some men come in and pour a patio outside the back door. It's just concrete, but they stamped, colored, and sealed it, so it looks just gorgeous!
Forming up the patio
Stamping in the pattern
The finished product--the straw is covering up the new grass seed
When all the grass grows in, we'll have a nice big yard for the kids to play in as they get bigger, as well as a lovely patio for cook-outs with family and friends, something we've always enjoyed!
2 comments:
This is very impressive! We have difficulty just doing tiny things around the house and yard...this was a major ordeal! We've been in our house 5 years and STILL have not fixed our patio up the way we would like it to be!
looks great! i LOVE the patio!! we are huge outdoors people as well!
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