Yesterday was a day of contractors, designers, trying to comprehend it all and understand what everyone was saying. I like my landscape architect, he’s patience, he incorporates my ideas into his design, he listens and he shows me the concepts by laying it all out. The grading guy I was talking to yesterday, eventually towards …
Category Archive: House
Sep
19
Sep
19
pictures = a thousand words
a little pictorial of what’s going on with the house remodel ~~~~~~~~~~~ the studio ~~~~~~~~~~~ the privacy screen for my patio area ~~~~~~~~~~~ cork flooring ~~~~~~~~~~~ master bedroom – eww, the mold discovered ~~~~~~~~~~~ living room ~~~~~~~~~~~ the planters/cat tree oops, didn’t take pics yet ~~~~~~~~~~~ backyard lawn ~~~~~~~~~~~ new french drain
Mar
22
Front Tree Area – done
Front Tree Area – yeah finally finished Moved the potato bush yet again – separated out the dead one and moved the small one that’s struggling to survive, me thinks it doesn’t like to be replanted but it was either that or removed it completely and I like it. And got rid of those weird …
Mar
22
Rosemary-Lavendar-Lemon Balm-Peppermint Scape
Rosemary-Lavendar-Lemon Balm-Peppermint with a little Strawberry thrown in to the mix. As you can see there is this weird fake rock in the picture – its to hide the sprinkler system however its ugly and doesn’t fit and will be taken out soon Part 1 Part 2 – almost done Part 3 – finished with …
Mar
11
destroying things
First time using a circular saw and I torn out part of the deck demolished the brick planter in front of the house and found this old milk bottle from some old milk bottling company in Oakland
Mar
11
Fixing a basket weave fence
I love the old style basket weave fences with ivy growing around, through, over but when the next door neighbor has a large pit bull on the other side, I had to do something about the openings and my fix was to slat over the open weave but still preserve the basket weave style – …
Mar
11
two toned house
my neighbors must be wondering what is going on, half the house is one color, half is the new color – I’m working on it as fast as I can – can only paint when its sunny outside, part of me thinks I should just hire someone to finish the job, the other part of …
Mar
11
little green pods
who knew..planting and playing in the dirt is actually relaxing, its like stepping away into another world where the phone isn’t ringing, the text messages aren’t popping up constantly and it just being out in the sun and doing a different kind of work….so today, I planted pansies around the tree and then irish moss …
Jan
09
pictures of the new front lawn
pictures of the new front lawn where the slate will be once it stops raining and I can deal with the drainage issue: the new green lawn new lawn again with electrician working the tree area, see it with cute little flowers surrounding the tree and last but not least, the front of the house …
Aug
16
so what you don't know about buying a house..
your house will eat your money no one ever tells you about those expense to owning your own home beyond the mortgage payments and taxes such as tree trimming, my god that’s expensive landscaping to have that gorgeous green lawn or having a new neighbor move in with pit bulls and that old basket weave …