Before Pics of my yard.

I thought I would start of my blog by letting everyone see what I was starting with.

This is a view of the back yard. As you can see the fence is in really bad shape, the pre-fab concrete steps are uneven and unsafe! The paver patio is small and very overgrown, and the large cottonwood has about 5 huge branches over my roof and the neighbors.

This is the front of our house. Again, the garden here was in pretty rough shape. There are some nice boxwoods up by the porch, but other than that, most of the plants are overgrown and out of place. You can also see a gas lamp up near the public sidewalk. You may also notice by the color of the house that the previous owner loved the color purple, so many of the plants that were here were in shades of purple or pink. I won't even go into what the house looked like inside, but lets just say I did not realize that there were so many different shades of the color purple.

Even though the house was in a little bit of rough shape, both my wife and I fell in love with this old house (built in 1869) immediately. We both wereable to see past all the bad and see this little old houses true potential.

So there you have it, a brief look at my house before I was able to get my hands on it;)

In my next few posts, I will show you what I have been able to accomplish in the year and a half that we have lived here. I hope that you all enjoy.