With the interior fairly complete (Phase I), our minds have turned to the surrounding grounds. We received our Certificate of Occupancy last week, but unfortunately could not spend the weekend at the house due to Jenny's and Camille's commitments. Just a few items to finish up inside the house: stove vent, stove backsplash, a repair to a chipped master bath sink. Roof gutter and downspouts should be scheduled for next week. Jenny, Camille and I are painting bedroom doors and trim so that we can call in the carpet people for the three bedrooms. Outside, Ed Benes directed Randy the excavator on the final grading all around the house and we should be ready for gravel to finish the driveway base. With that set, we'll schedule in the hydro-seeder to try and set a lawn for erosion control and basis for future landscaping. Not a lot of details to show this week, but some outside shots:
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The two back house corners with the steeper slope are the areas of concern. Some future landscape walls may be needed to best control runoff and ease of maintenance. We also have a plan for water barrels fed from the downspouts, at these corners.
Here's the front view as of Friday with some initial driveway stakes in place.
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And here is a photoshop version of the image above, showing final driveway layout and initial lawns.
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Wow. You are getting close to the photoshop vision!
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