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600xc4me
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Figured I would share our little project. My parents wanted something different than what we always had in front of the house, so me and a friend came up with a design, after a few small changes, here's where we are at at the moment.
Here's the best pic I could find of what we used to have here. Was Pretty much a dirt hill, sloping away from the house with cement retaining walls on both sides. The far side was about twice the height of the side you can see here. Was very plain looking and didn't flow very well with anything.
I have access to a skid steer, wheel loader, back hoe and body job at work, so we stripped that all away, and started by pouring a footing for the outside row of bricks.
Little bit more progress:
I worked on it all day yesterday and here's how I left off. Finally starting to look like something now.
Need to order caps, and the wider stair caps before we can do much more.
http://s697.photobucket.com/albums/vv337/600xc4me/?action=view¤t=fc14b5c6.jpg
You can see where the stairs will come there, planning to have three steps up there, some kind of brick sidewalk, that will curve right, then we will run brick steps up to the deck in the old location. On the right hand side there will be a bit of a flower bed, about two feet wide going with the shape of the front row of bricks then two layers of bricks behind it, and a washed rock area in the back. Putting in the front three stairs in the next step, then we'll do the inside row of bricks for the flower bed on the right hand side. Lots of work! But it's a fun project. Figured I would share.
Here's the best pic I could find of what we used to have here. Was Pretty much a dirt hill, sloping away from the house with cement retaining walls on both sides. The far side was about twice the height of the side you can see here. Was very plain looking and didn't flow very well with anything.
I have access to a skid steer, wheel loader, back hoe and body job at work, so we stripped that all away, and started by pouring a footing for the outside row of bricks.
Little bit more progress:
I worked on it all day yesterday and here's how I left off. Finally starting to look like something now.
Need to order caps, and the wider stair caps before we can do much more.http://s697.photobucket.com/albums/vv337/600xc4me/?action=view¤t=fc14b5c6.jpg
You can see where the stairs will come there, planning to have three steps up there, some kind of brick sidewalk, that will curve right, then we will run brick steps up to the deck in the old location. On the right hand side there will be a bit of a flower bed, about two feet wide going with the shape of the front row of bricks then two layers of bricks behind it, and a washed rock area in the back. Putting in the front three stairs in the next step, then we'll do the inside row of bricks for the flower bed on the right hand side. Lots of work! But it's a fun project. Figured I would share.
