After a decade of living in the same house without taking advantage of the backyard, I decided to roll my sleeves up and get to work. I’ve always loved woodworking and was craving a project. Little did I know how much work it would be, but with the help of my house-mates, good friends and a wonderful neighbor, we got the backyard looking real nice. This project has been very rewarding and a great opportunity to learn new skills. I hope this video inspires you to give your backyard some lovin’ 🙂
music:
1) “Ripen” by Gabrielle Gottschall – https://soundcloud.com/gabrielle-gottschall/ripen-prod-tommisch-1
2) “Nothing For It” by Xandra Corpora – https://www.xandracorpora.com/music
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So inspiring!! Love the pops of color and the mannequin is awesome with ivy!
Why I have the sensation this house is in Sf I love the finished look I have the same space and no idea what to do because is dowhill is so loose 😫😫
Wow, you did an awesome job 👏
This is amazing!! Love it. Great job
Great video – the transformation is amazing and I like how you recycled the pallets and the stone. Just one question and not judging or trying to be rude, but how come you let it overgrow for a decade and didn't utilize the space in the backyard. Again amazing job
" BEAUTIFUL" .. Great job.. Thank you for sharing your talent and ideas !!
I plan on do an garden this spring/summer 🙂 and canning all the stuff I'm gonna grow ❤❤
They seem to have reuse some things, quite appreciative, good work, song track great for the video.
I would of liked to have seen the fence, bench and any other old woodwork pressure washed before sanding and staining, would just finish it off nicely.
I think the garden looked fine before she tore it up.
you cleaned it up but it looks messy again. i prefer japanese style garden. very minimalist.
Wow!!!!! 👏💜
Great application of WOMAN POWER! YES- she can and did!
You should get a bird’s eye view of it before from Google Earth.
Then, when they update, get a new shot of it for side x side.
Say she works for half a day every Saturday = 52 days of work. So nowhere near as long as it would take a landscaping company to do if you combine every worker's hours. The labour also cost her nothing. The result is a garden that suits her and her family and is inarguably unique and attractive. I'm guessing she also had fun doing it. Win win win win.
HGTV and DIY Networks ain’t got nothing on you.
I can’t tell you how amazing I think this transformation is!! It’s such a great representation of what I want my yard to be. Recycled, eclectic, Wild with flowers. I love everything!!!
But why did you miss the advantage of ground soil in important regions where you are creating trenches for partition to plant. You have used the plastic sheets and cut the ground soil and the raised upper soil mix you've used. It could have been so much more well completed.its still depressive the finished work. Don't mistake me for saying so. Such big yard you have. You could make a world out of it. A bird bath. White or natural brown fencing. Colourful planters. Full grass lawn and useful trees like vegetables and some easy growing zinnias and crysanthemums and roses. Would have proven as great spot for kids to read and play and grow.
Please come and do my house 🙂
Fucking awesome as fuck.
Spectacular job
You go Gurl.RESPECT for all that hard work and effort
Столько труда… и все равно так некрасиво. 🤔
How AMAZING was THAT?!😀 super DUPER cozy!!! You would have to MAKE me leave…cuz…I wouldn't want to..AWESOME is an understatement
Wonderful job. I know how hard, time and money consuming it is to do it on your own but the end result for us is just so rewarding. Well done I love it.
W-O-W !!! I'm so inspired by your creativity & vision, using inexpensive materials (pallets) to make something so beautiful. mannequin as a ivy trellis is nice quirky touch!!!
Please share more!!!
Flipping AWESOMNESS! and i was diggin the tunes as ya went along! Thaank you for sharing!
Shame nothing was done to fix the layout, upgrade fensing and place plants with screening abilities to give this overlooked place some privacy.
What would I do? DO NOT KILL all vegitation before putting proper plan in place. Because it take 20 years to grow a tree or a large bush.
I would move steps from the middle to one side. On the lead to them I would pave a general use patio and put a new fence there. Sofas with a low level fire pit. Old fence could OK if screened by plants. But on a show it is proper rubbish.
On the oposite side at the low level I would do terrace raise with a soft path surrounded by plants – mix of evergreen bushes and seasonal flowers.
So upper part would have two entries – gentle terrace raise with a soft path on one side and "hard" steps on another. In the middle in front of the house exit I would make low barrier to prevent people falling off down from upper level. That wall could be made of brick, stone or decorative wood panel to be a display of climing plants – or a waterfall. That would be seen first thing from the house. Not the ugly steps.
On top of that wall from the upper level I would plant flowering bushes – rododendrum, gortensia, etc. Thanks to the level difference they would be enough to make low level 100% private. On the top level I would plant couple apple or cherry trees and some evergreen tall tree – grand magnolia or similar, so the terrace houses at the back are screened for good. A second patio with cooking facility and table with chairs could be in the middle surrounded by sort line plant borders from all sides with low seasonal flowers infount and up to 1.20-1.50m high bushes at the back. So the ugly fence is covered up.
Alternatively that second pation can be next to the "hard" steps so food is cooked and served to both levels. Then the middle could have grass for games. While tall trees still covering the overlooking terrace block at the back.