Week 44: Spring, spring, SPring, SPRING dreams!

8 years ago

I am having spring fever. I can't wait until it's dry enough to get out and continue cleaning out my front yard.
Not only have I been selling and giving away inside stuff for space, I've started eying my hardscape materials as potential cash.

Even though I have a vague plan for them, I've had much of them for a long time. That vague plan does involve installing them and having a neat courtyard-like area in front, but $$$...

So if you had unlimited cash for your outside, including the outside of the house, what you you do?

I'd build a pergola, a back deck, finish my back porch, install a driveway, extend my front porch and put the ceiling in.

Not a lot, but how come everything outside is SO much more than inside? Or is it?

WWYD!?

Featured Answer

Texas_Gem

8 years ago

Outdoor dreams??? Well, let's start with the 200,000 dollar + dream backyard/oasis. In ground pool, diving rock, grotto, lazy river, hot tub, etc with the beautifully landscaped yard surrounding it with raised gardens, accent lighting and the gardener/pool boy to maintain it all.

More realistic (not NECESSARILY requiring a huge lottery win) would be replacing the chain link fence with a privacy fence for the backyard (8,000-10,0000) and finish having the driveway poured. Our current driveway is mostly gravel with only a small portion of it concrete.

We sit on a corner lot and our property is higher than the roads. Our driveway curves from one road to the other, I.e. very long, and expensive to pour. Since our driveway is uphill from all directions, during the winter there are times we can't get up our driveway. Once we reach the concrete, we have the traction to reach the house. The issue is literally timing and gunning the engine at the entrance to the driveway at just the right moment in order to make it from the road to the concrete.

I'm hoping that in the next year or two that we can at least finish the concrete to the road on the garage side entrance so we don't have to leave our vehicles in the snow drift on the road and hike to the house.

Did I mention that my new stove and fridge are coming on Friday? I will post a picture when they arrive. I'm so excited to finally have new appliances (a first for me) AND they are what I wanted and picked out!!

Sort by:Oldest