I have to use this slide show to brag a little bit. Nate just finished a privacy fence by our front patio today, and it looks great. It's his own creative design and a mixture of cedar and corrugated steel "rustically rusted." We have the same thing alongside the deck as well. We've spent the past two summers putting a lot of time and money into our landscaping, since, as you can see from the "before" photo, when the house was done we were left with one big pile of dirt. Also, remember this is prairie, so adding trees to a landscape of sage brush and native grasses is a big deal. (And, having grown up in Washington, I really wanted some trees!) Except for the sod and sprinklers, we've designed and done all the work ourselves. This involved a sharp learning curve since neither of us really had any experience with landscaping.
We spent a lot of time wandering around the house trying to figure out where everything would go and how to build it. Two summers ago I got some serious muscles just shoveling sand, gravel, and rocks out of a trailer for weeks. Nate has spent more hours than he'd like to count digging holes for fence posts and trees and bushes. Adding the trees, bushes, planters, and perennials has been more fun, especially this year as they are really beginning to fill out. I'm still a little amazed that everything survives considering our cold winters and bright, hot summers. I now can enjoy going outside to water my flowers, and we can enjoy hanging out on either the patio or deck with some privacy from the road while enjoying all the greenery. We think we are done with all the major projects...but knowing my husband, I'm not holding my breath!
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