Growin' Cohen: June 25, 2010: Backyard Shenanigans, Part I

As was mentioned in a previous post, John has always had lofty plans for my mom’s backyard. So, being that he would be in San Francisco all summer it was his goal to, at the very least, convince my mom to make her yard "functional." While John could spend thousands upon thousands of dollars designing that yard, he knew that would never be in my mom’s “plan” for this summer.

So, to get the ball rolling John came up with an over all master plan design for the yard (his dream) as well as a phased in design that begins with something simple (like clearing it out) and subsequent phases of work that could be done throughout the years to reach the end result. After doing some of the grunt work (pricing and specs), John supplied my mom with the design and a cost estimate for both a little bit of work and the entire overhaul. (There might have been some added comments like “it would be a great place for the boys to run around it” etc…) And guess what? She went with the entire overhaul!

John is in design heaven…and it’s a good thing too. My mom’s yard needed it…BADLY.
Here are some BEFORE pictures:

(View from sun porch. Looking down into backyard. No Joke!)

("Before" pictures of the back yard)

Pictures after the CLEARING.....

(Old deck stairs. Health hazard, to say the least!)

(The new view from sun porch)

(A great view of the complete "before renovation, after clearing" Small deck, no fence on one side...see, there actually is a fountain in there.)

Any one in need of a NEW FENCE??