The Homemade House is sitting pretty in a lunar landscape. While its been all fun and flowers on the inside, a desolate scene outside provokes concern even from David the Postie.
"What are you planning to do about a garden?" he enquired with a concerned tone.
"Nothing." I coolly replied. "It's low maintenance this way."
Except the bravado is starting to slip along with the startling embankment in the middle of our front yard which lies in wait for the unsuspecting outsider.
Captain Laird has been warned off his online shopping habit, lest we lose a highly valued delivery person into the Valley of the Damned.
After a year of intense engagement with the building process, it would be fair to say that right now, we would be happy to take the landscaping side of things at a leisurely pace. But it isn't that simple.
As the summer months wither away -much like our remaining vegetation - the impetus to get a driveway down is very real.
First things first, however, and apparently if you are planning to put very heavy machinery in your backyard to do something, it is not wise to run it over the top of your newly poured driveway. Frustratingly logical.
So we find ourselves compelled to get all the landscaping planning done without pause. Sequencing: fight it at your peril in this game, my friends.
It would be fair to say I am heartily sick of paying vast sums to have the earth on our site moved hither and thither. My mind is wearied with endless discussion of "levels". My soul a little crushed with talk of retaining walls.
Our landscaping wounds were laid bare while the side fence was demolished, leaving our rawness exposed for all to see.
A gentle balm in the form of our landscape designer gives a flickering candle of hope that maybe one day we will nestle in a lush Eden.
Right now even a clothesline would be garden highlight.
Love the house guys, my wife and I are teetering between a harkaway and an off the shelf builder for our little spot. We have about 3.5 acres with a gentle slope, did you have any issues getting the site prepared ?
ReplyDeleteThanks! We are on a suburban block with a barely noticeable slope. It wasn't an issue for getting the slab down. We made sure we used a respectable concretor who performed a little cut and fill for us and that was that. It's probably more of an issue now we are at landscaping stage and dealing with levels that got changed a lot as various bits of trenching went on around e house, and we need to excavate down to allow for driveway base, paths etc. that has then triggered off the need for small retaining walls in a couple of places.
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