Home Improvement

We've been working on a fairly sizeable project around the house over the summer. We've extended our driveway to give our guests a place to park while allowing us to still be able to use our garage. It also gives us a nice level pad for playing basketball. The hoop should be installed in the next month or so.

And then we put in a patio. We knew that we wanted to do a patio at some point, but hadn't planned to do it this summer. But the savings of pouring the patio at the same time that the driveway extension was done was fairly significant, so we now have a patio. And a brick wall. And a hot tub. And Kevin has put in a bunch of landscaping beds which await a variety of plant material that we'll be installing once the weather cools down a bit in September.

It's been a fairly large endeavor, but the results are really nice so far. Unfortunately we didn't do our outdoor furniture shopping in time--everything that we liked (that was in our budget) was already gone thanks to the clearance sales. So for now we're making due with some chairs that were on the deck, and we'll be sure to hit the sales bright and early next year! And let's face it, when there's a hot tub, do you really need anywhere else to sit?!