The Adventures of Lauren & Jerald

Friday, September 18, 2015

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

I took so many pictures before, and during and almost no pictures after. Here are the few I took. After over 10 weeks we are finally done! We couldn't be more happy with the results. We love the deck, the fire pit, and the new plantings. What a difference!

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Backyard Renovation - during

Demo begins!

porta-potty on our front lawn!

It took two days to get rid of our brick stairs and weird concrete bench.

Heavy equipment in the backyard!

The deck begins!

We have a deck!

Grass goes in

Fire pit in progress

Monday, September 14, 2015

Backyard Renovation - before

This post is a long time coming!!!! Since moving in to this house 5 years ago every 6 months or so we tackle some project. We have replaced all of the windows, replaced the air conditioning, converted from natural gas to oil (the two oil drums had to be cut apart and removed in pieces), painted every room in the house, refinished the wood floors on the main floor, added a shower to the guest bath, added heat to the basement and guest room, built and installed custom built-in bookcases in our living room, built and installed custom built-in lockers in our mudroom, landscape the front of the house and not to mention all the work on the deck and gutters.

It was finally time to tackle the back of the house. As you can see, it was a jungle back there. The plants were random and wild. The deck was falling down. Basically, nothing made sense or caused any happiness for us. We started planning very early on - hiring a landscape architect who came up with many different plans. We narrowed it down and then bid it out to three contractors. We hired a contractor and got working. Here are the before pictures...