Patio part 1!

Myself and my handsome hubby live in Utah. The cost of living is not too bad.  However we love where we live and we live in the MOST EXPENSIVE County in the state.  We have a beautiful 3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom 2,200 sq foot townhouse.  However it is still a TOWN house. We hope once our debt is paid off to build our DREAM house.
One of the draw backs of our current home is our backyard.  It is 23’x18’ we have a massive tree that takes over, along with killing all our grass.  We decided it was necessary to change this.

BACK YARD!!

We purchased our town house in just over 6 years. We have tried to do things from time to time to make our house a home!!!

Our back yard was a wood rotting deck and we had a huge tree shading our yard. We has tried for years to grow grass but with the tree there was no hope. 

We were able to get our tree removed by our HOA.

Our BIG tree

Up up up it goes!!

We came home from work one day and it was GONE.  It was a huge relief.  

I planned and planned and planned and planned what we would do with our yard.  

We started with thinking about what we wanted to do.  

It started with a deck

I love www.younghouselove.com  You should check them out, they gave us SO MANY ideas, and ive linked to them a BUNCH!!

I love this blog and I loved what they did.  The more and more we looked into it we realized we would be struggling with alot of wasted space.  

We then thought of copying out next door neighbors with cement. 

  NEIGHBORS YARD!

 However our yard is ONLY accessible through their yard, so we would either have to cart it in, or pay a butt load of money to have it poured.

Idea for Concrete. 

We then once again returned to www.younghouselove.com and found their wonderful idea.  

PAVERS!! are they beautiful or what?

Now the fun starts

Here is my plan, then the alterations from my HH. 

He doesn't like straight lines WTF! LOL
So he added the curves. I was not looking forward to that part!

After the tree was removed we started to move the sprinklers. Neither of us have done them before. It was really fun and a lot of work!

Here you can see our basic outline for our yard.

We wanted to make these as level as possible! 

We uses this cute little thing to make sure the ground is level.

We had 5 sprinklers and we caped off 2 and moved 2 to the (future) grass area and 1 for a drip system in the future garden.

 

Here is the view from our back window, before the tree stump was gone.

The stump was then removed!!

We then moved on to the gravel. This process made for a LONG day!!

The next day we got a plate compactor to level it all our!

My little man helped his daddy!!

Now we are ready for sand!!!