If you have read my other project reveal posts about our interior, then you know that we purchased our current home a little over 2 years ago and the main reason we bought it was because of the backyard. The lot is about half an acre and we fell in love with the thought of what this yard could be for us and for our kids. As you may remember, the house itself was smaller than we our previous home, but we knew that we could make up for it with our backyard. Cut to living in the home for over a year and a half and the yard still not being done. It was starting to get frustrating and it was not a place I enjoyed looking at outside of the windows, let alone spending time in. Before we moved in we did redo the pool interior. We raised up the depth, added a baja shelf, did new pebble tec and put in new water line tile. Looking back, we probably should have just started from scratch, but we knew that we would want to use the pool right away since we were moving in in August and we did the quick fix. Here is what the yard looked like when we bought the house.
We started out by removing all of the dead trees and bushes and there were SO many. More than we even thought, which meant that we lost more vegetation than we had originally hoped. Pretty much all of our privacy from the neighbors behind us vanished. But at least we got rid of the foot bridges and “river” that was floating through the yard. I can’t believe how small the yard looked with all of the overgrown trees. You really can’t appreciate the size of the lot with how it was before.
Once we started clearing the yard out, we could start to imagine how we would be able to set it up and also some of the problems that we now faced…like a lack of privacy and overall blahness. 🙂