About two weeks ago I showed my daughters ‘new garden’, well, what is going-to-be the garden of her newly built home (see post here … Intimidating). These past two weeks they have been very busy cleaning up the front areas, erecting a wall around the front, paving the driveway, tiling the swimming pool and tiling the outside entertainment area. Its looking VERY different to the photos I showed you in that post and I’m looking forward to taking photos of the completed hard-scaping they are doing in the front garden area. Its looking superb! (I was banned from taking ‘during’ photos of this phase of the build :)).
But before I show off their beautiful new home in the next day or so (by popular request), I thought I’d show one last ‘before’ post. Prepare yourself … it’s pretty scary!
These are the photographs I took at this time last year, just after they had concluded the purchase of the house and took ownership of the property.
A couple more that you can click to enlarge:
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And here they are, sometime around June this year after the steel beams had been laid (terminology?), well proud of themselves, and rightly so! Shortly after this photo the first bottle of champagne was consumed on the property, right up there on the beam!
Photos of the new house are here.
Happy Gardening
xxx
7 replies on “The Old house”
It doesn’t look so terrible, but it does appear to present a lot of opportunity. I’ll look forward to seeing the “after” photos, too. What a cute couple!
I can’t imagine this was the old house – and to think what they have done – they must be so proud! 🙂
Can’t wait to see the results!!!!!
Christine, How exciting! I can’t wait to see the ‘After’ pictures! P. x
Wow, that is kind of scary! They are brave to take on such a project, but I agree, there’s certainly lots of potential. Can’t wait to see the finished product!!
the old house looks so sad … and those smiles promise a happy new future!
That’s a lot of brick in the garden! And a lot of potential, too. Cute pic of them sitting on the beam! They are – beaming! 😉
Holley, sadly there’s a group of South Africans who want a low maintenance ‘garden’. Paved, tarred, concreted, Astroturfed. We were stunned when we found a house with a Garden, a GREEN Garden.