We have an accent wall! We've talked about it for a while, but just now got around to actually doing it. Several months ago (more like a year really), I painted the back of the book case across from this wall the same color red, but didn't paint anything else at the time. I was waiting on the right inspiration (and Anthony's aproval) to paint an accent wall. Since I'm headed back to med school and clinics Monday, I feel this need to get everything done this week, so it's been a week of projects. This week we had the carpet and furniture steam cleaned, pest control out, planted the trees in the backyard, and painted this wall! Wow! I call that a successful week :).
Our plan for the backyard is going to be really great. I haven't taken a picture yet of what we've done to this point, but we planted (and re-planted after Gabby and Porter decided to taste and play tug-of-war with) Leyland Cypress trees along the back fence. These are apparently really hardy, drought resistant, and fast growing plants - which is perfect for our back yard and also means that we won't have to look out at our neighbor all of the time. Hopefully later this year we will build a deck/pergola and hang a swing out there. We love to be outside, but our patio is really small and there isn't a place for chairs or anything like that out back. We're also planning to put in a stone pathway from the gate to the pergola - part of the reason for this is because we will actually need a path, but perhaps the more important reason is becasue the dogs have worn out the grass there anyway. I'll post pics of that project as it goes and as we get a bit further along. I do like projects around the house, but think that they're going to dwindle at least for third year, then perhaps we will have other projects in store for my fourth year! The other project that I did this week was make a wine cork cork board - well, mostly, it's about 2/3 done - but it's kind of fun collecting corks from wine that we've had and enjoyed with friends and champagne that we've celebrated with over the past few years. I'll take a picture of that some time. Yeah for home renovations and time to do them...
Our plan for the backyard is going to be really great. I haven't taken a picture yet of what we've done to this point, but we planted (and re-planted after Gabby and Porter decided to taste and play tug-of-war with) Leyland Cypress trees along the back fence. These are apparently really hardy, drought resistant, and fast growing plants - which is perfect for our back yard and also means that we won't have to look out at our neighbor all of the time. Hopefully later this year we will build a deck/pergola and hang a swing out there. We love to be outside, but our patio is really small and there isn't a place for chairs or anything like that out back. We're also planning to put in a stone pathway from the gate to the pergola - part of the reason for this is because we will actually need a path, but perhaps the more important reason is becasue the dogs have worn out the grass there anyway. I'll post pics of that project as it goes and as we get a bit further along. I do like projects around the house, but think that they're going to dwindle at least for third year, then perhaps we will have other projects in store for my fourth year! The other project that I did this week was make a wine cork cork board - well, mostly, it's about 2/3 done - but it's kind of fun collecting corks from wine that we've had and enjoyed with friends and champagne that we've celebrated with over the past few years. I'll take a picture of that some time. Yeah for home renovations and time to do them...
