A Big Dose of "Grown-Up"

The first evening that I sat in my empty house, I stared at the empty rooms, trying to visualize my plans for decorating. Unfortunately, those plans were put on hold as I worked to keep the pool clean, had a new air conditioner installed (85 degrees on the second floor is NO fun), re-routed cable lines to every room in the house, aaand not to mention, putting up a privacy fence in the back yard. I definitely will not take credit for all of those things, because my wonderful dad and other amazing men in my life helped me out greatly! Moving in, and then realizing I needed to do these things was a complete shock. I remember someone said to me, "Welcome to the wonderful world of home ownership!" Dang right. There have definitely been other things that needed to be fixed: the "phantom" toilet, installing a new garage door opener, re-wiring some electric.

But that's enough about boring repairs! On to the fun stuff....

I will be showing before and after pictures with a brief explanation of what was done.

BACKYARD BEFORE: This is what the backyard looked like when I purchased the house. The yard was sectioned off into three parts (for the previous owners' dogs). My biggest fear was that the patch where the dogs had killed the grass would not come back... 

BACKYARD AFTER: This was actually taken after the privacy fence was up, but you can see where we removed the chain-link fence, so now I have one, big open yard!

My neighbor's tree was swallowing my yard/pool... so we asked to trim it back.

After the limbs were cut.. and the privacy fence is going up!

The true workers...

SIDE YARD BEFORE: Weeds that were overgrown.. I found many items in this mess including: an ax, a hoe, a rake, and a SCYTHE. Kinda creepy. 

 SIDEYARD AFTER: Just a little clean up.

BACKYARD GARDEN BEFORE

 BACKYARD GARDEN AFTER

After Verticutting and Overlaying. Hoping that the new grass will grow!

It definitely did! .. It actually looks better yet than this picture, but I will post one later.

That's about it for the exterior. This spring, I am hoping to work on landscaping and painting my front door!