A productive weekend...

This weekend was Bryan's RDO weekend (meaning that he gets Sunday off) and so we were both set for some landscaping...

Our goal: to make a start on the narrow side of the house.

The plan: to use pavers, evenly spaced in a 'stepping stone' fashion to go from the front of the house around to the side and down the length of the narrow side to the hot water system (after that point there will be a concreted pad for the fold-down clothes line and the back will be turf). The pavers will be surrounded by small pebbles (we're thinking white pebbles with a grey-ish paver) which will also extend through the front area as a mulch.

Below is a rough sketch of our plan...

Some things have changed a little - the native garden at the rear of the garage probably won't have pavers as suggested there and we are looking at concreting the area at the rear of the garage right through to the verandah (now a verandah, not just a patio). The lawn area at the back will probably be more regular (and not wavy like my drawing...)

After much more "planning" than either of us expected (we had to completely re-think some parts) we mamaged to get quite a bit done and have levelled off the area and spread and compacted about 1.5 cubic metres of crushed rock. We've also added concreted powder to help make it solid.

The strip (from the hot water system around to the front door) is now ready for the pavers when we decide on the pavers... We will leave the pebbles until after the conreting and front yard are done so that we can do it all at once.

We also started moving the great pile of bricks that has been occupying our front yard. Not sure what we will use these for yet, but there's plenty there (almost a whole pallet!).

And I finally managed to hang the roman blind in the office. It's still not quite finished and needs the battens (horizontal rods) and the cording, but I needed to see that it fit before doing those, and the best way to do that was to install the mounting board and hang it up. Thankfully it fits!!!!!!!! and so now I can take it down and finish if off.

(I really wish I knew where the camera was so that I could show what we did!)

Oh... and I also managed to unpack the bathroom and laundry. The bathroom was quite a job getting our stuff that used to fill a cabinet with two cupboards and 4 drawers into a cabinet with a single door and 2 shelves (one of which is taken up mostly by plumbing). Needless to say I did a fairly ruthless culling!