Monday 27 April 2009

Landscaping journey begins

Time for a landscaping update.

We've had the boys from All FX Concrete out again to do some more 'hard landscaping' work for us (you'll remember they also did our driveway for us) And no, I don't mean hard as in difficult. I mean hard as opposed to 'Soft Landscaping' - ie. planting and laying mulch etc :-)

Out the front we are creating a courtyard with a seat and a paved area - something to break up the garden.

Here is a pic with the section excavated ready for the slab frame to go down.

And here it is all laid out.

We are also getting the alfresco paved with the same pavers as the front.

Down the blind side of the house we are getting standard concrete without pavers to minimise maintenance.

We are also getting a slab laid for a freestanding spa.

...and of course every mans basic need - a garden shed.

The access these days is getting a little harder so they enlisted the use of a concrete pumper to get to all the locations.


Here we can see the guys hard at it......on all the slabs.


And what slab wouldn't be complete without signing it. The cherubs thought it was great - a little bit like Hollywood!


While the diggers were there we also got them to level the backyard ready for a retaining wall. This area will eventually be lawn for the cherubs to play on. They took out 3 truckloads of soil.


3 comments:

Toni said...

Great update guys. You've certainly had alot of slabs poured!! But I think you are holding out on us......I've seen rocks...... :-) Next update maybe?

Girls have grown and are so cute :-)

How nice will next summer be? I'm not a fan of summertime but am looking forward to seeing a huge transformation in the back/side yards by then.

Look forward to your next update!

T&L said...

Hmmmm... it appears the hills have eyes ;-)

We're waiting for a huge transformation too - its just taking forever.

Yes there a few rocks scattered across the front garden. This is still coming together at the moment.

More will be revealed soon!

Toni said...

I'll look forward to the next landscaping instalment ;-)

I was around the corner last month at a gymnastics birthday party so we took a drive afterwards and saw the guys working in the front. Our front yard is still weeds and dirt. Next door is about 4 weeks away from finishing so we will make a start soon.