The backyard

Remember this house...
Well I know I haven't blogged about it much but that will soon change. We have now lived here for 3 weeks and have been busy working on projects to make this house feel like "home."

This house sat on the market for along time, mostly due to the fact that the backyard was a monstrous disaster that would need A LOT of work. Finally the price went low enough that we decided that we would take on the challenge.

The backyard originally had a garage that the last owners turned into a sketchy living space (no windows and definitely not up to code). Then a bbq room was attached to the front that contained brick for every wall except for the ceiling. All of this made the backyard tiny and not attractive at all! To make a long story short, our friends who rented this house from us until we could move in, were given free rent for a month if they would help Andrew demolish these new additions. Boys with sledge hammers... they agreed and the tear out began...




We then had what was left turned back into a regular garage...
Once everything was put back to normal, we then noticed that the removal of the excess buildings left huge cement slabs in the yard so those had to go.

You can kind of see all the concrete in this picture.

Andrew was going to rent a jack hammer and do it himself until his dad mentioned that we should look on Craigslist for someone who has a bobcat and needs work... Let's just say that it was the best decision we could have made.


The job was done in one day with all of the concrete removed and dispossed of. The guy said that he dumped 20,000 lbs. of concrete at the dump.

So this is what our backyard looks like now and we are so excited to start over with a clean slate.