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~Revised 5-5-11 ~

Last night after dinner and after Anabel was already up to sleep, i saw that it was still light outside. Me and Bob decided to go outside and get some yard work done.

We talked and planned out where we would like the furniture to go and how we want things done. Then we started getting some more stones out from the old pond area. Bob got two small trees that were starting to grow along the fence out. We have almost all the pond area picked up. Soon we will be ready for the skid loader.

Here’s some of our idea’s. Earlier in the day i had spent time looking up furniture and things i would like.

First we want to stain our existing concrete

 

I like something like this, but i haven’t shown Bob yet so i don’t know if this is what we will pick or not.

We are fencing in the whole yard, and building a privacy fence type thing around out AC so you won’t see it…. that structure will also have an area for our garbage can so it will be out of eye sight as well.

Also we are hoping to get new sod laid, but I'm not sure how much that will cost because i can’t even find any sort of prices online… grrr… i wanted to try and make an estimate to see if we could even possibly afford it but to no avail!

Along the north fence we want to plant some small flowering trees. First ones we saw and liked, i believe they were called ‘Hydrangea’ but i could be wrong.

 

Some of our furniture ideas are:

This is a 8X11 outdoor carpet.

 

The table i want to build. I have the building plans.

 

I want Bob to build this for one side of the table, for seating. As far as other seating I'm thinking that i might be able to find chairs around at garage sales and stuff. They don’t really have to match because when we redo them and paint them all the same color it will give a nice eclectic feeling (something I've learned to like from all my craft blogs), which i think will be fun!

 

Then in our lounging/conversation area i want Bob to build some of these, or we buy some… but we are trying to build what we can to keep the cost down. I’m thinking i want two of these and one made into a loveseat.

 

Bob wants this for the seating area.

 

Over part of the yard we plan on installing a 16.5 X 16.5 X 16.5 foot sail for shade. Surprising how cheap these things are. Since Bob took out the one shade tree in our yard because it was dead, we will greatly need some shade!

 

This is going to become my inspiration for the pattern and color theme for the back yard. I had wanted to buy it but Bob hated the design of the umbrella but he said the patterns and colors were good, so YAY! I will use this to base the table runner, place mats, cushions, that sort of thing, off of. Nice and bright.

Some fabrics I'm digging are:

 

 

And then we talked about a bar/cooking area…. i say bar because we want some bar like stools, but it would really just be a cooking area. Our idea is to build a counter area… Bob would make custom concrete countertops for it… we would possibly get a new grill that would slide into the counter area to make it look apart of it. We would have like two bar stools are the counter. Of course this is just if we have enough money, we want everything else more so we shall see.

 

Some other cool plans i found are these:

 

A sand box for the little ones

 

And a plan for my own compost bin for my garden… neat ha?

We will have to see if we have room for all of this though.

 

What do you think?