Twisted Sideways

I have finally gotten around to posting photos from the house remodel work that I have been doing. If you can’t tell, I bought a major fixer-upper. I finally broke down and paid for a subscription to flickr so that I could upload more photos and organize photosets.  I have avoided it for so long since I pay for server space for the blog.  But the features and other fun stuff that flikr provides, just can’t be beat.  So here are some photos of the remodel work I have been doing over the past two years and months.

The kitchen was a big undertaking.  After a few coats of paint, replacing the light fixtures and painting the cabinets and back-splash, I really like the way everything turned out.

Here is my kitchen with a before and after.

The front yard had a huge deck the previous owner decided to build. I couldn’t believe it was something that they put in – and it wasn’t done well. The flower beds were also in pretty bad shape. After a lot of sweat taking the deck down and redoing the the flower beds, it has all turned out nicely. I also fertilized and watered the front yard to get the grass in better shape.  There was no grass under the deck so I had to bring in about 50 squares of sod to help that area get started. Here are the before, during and afters.

My backyard has a pool and little room for much else. When I purchased the home, there was little to no landscaping in the back yard. The entire yard was full of weeds and a deck that needed some tender love and care. I decided that I needed a place to plant some plants and add some additional color to the back yard. Since most pools have a concrete border around the pool, much of the back border isn’t really used for walking or standing and hanging out on. So I decided to put in a rock retaining wall and back fill it with soil. I cleaned up the deck, power washed it, tore down the privacy fence that was sitting on top of the deck rather than at the fence line, and added a guard rail to the deck to help open up the back yard.  I then installed deck lights in the poles around the guard rail to create a nice area to be used at night for get togethers. I also installed landscape lighting in the new flower bed at the ends and a spotlight in the middle pointing up through the Mountain Laural.

So needless to say, I have been a little busy around the house. I still have a long way to go with a lot of other projects. Some of them I have already completed, but just need to gather and post those pictures. More to come soon.

All the pictures from these projects can be found here.