Y’all, I can’t consider how a lot progress has been made in these previous few weeks. We had my workshop constructed. We had our driveway poured. We had a ramp poured to attach the carport to the workshop. I completed my studio. And yesterday, my mother and I utterly cleared out the carport. Lots has occurred in a comparatively brief time period!
I used to be really shocked that we bought the entire carport completed yesterday. I had my doubts that we may accomplish that, however we powered by means of and bought it finished. And it’s all trying so good!
I so want that I had been capable of energy wash the carport and the little concrete pad on the facet subsequent to the facet studio door earlier than taking footage, however there was no time for that yesterday, and I don’t need to delay any extra in displaying you our new driveway. I additionally got here very near calling the person who hauls away my junk for me to return and clear up my scrap/junk/demo pile on the again patio, however then I noticed that if I had him come yesterday to try this, he’d be the primary particular person to drive on my driveway. I couldn’t let another person drive on my driveway earlier than I get the possibility! 😀 So I simply threw a tarp over my junk pile. As quickly as I drive on my driveway the primary time and pull up into the carport, I’ll name him to select up my junk pile. So for now, let’s simply fake it’s not there.
Let me remind you what the facet of our home seemed like nearly two weeks in the past…
And now it appears to be like like this…
I simply can’t recover from what a HUGE distinction this made to the curb enchantment of our home!
And y’all, I’ve been ready eleven years for this!!
You may nonetheless see the place I used to park in entrance of the studio. 😀 However this curvy driveway turned out higher than I had even anticipated. It’s simply so good!
And now, I really feel so motivated to get some landscaping finished. Till now, I’ve talked about landscaping, however with out the driveway in place, it was so arduous for me to essentially get enthusiastic about it as a result of I knew that the driveway can be integral to the general plan. However now it’s in place, and I’m able to take the landscaping concepts from idea to actuality.
I took all of those footage this morning, and it’s a reasonably dreary day, so issues are trying a bit grayer than standard at the moment.
And now that there’s a driveway assembly that little concrete pad underneath the facet studio door, I’m anxious to construct these steps! I by no means did it as a result of the way in which I need to construct them meant that step one can be actually tall (the peak of the step plus the peak of the concrete pad, which is about an extra 5 inches), and that will have created a problem for my brief legs. However now that the step down from the concrete pad is gone, and it now meets the driveway, I’m excited to get these steps constructed. (And I have to do it very quickly earlier than that uncovered OSB will get destroyed.)
As you may see, it’s all very grey proper now. Grey concrete, grey paint. However I’ll make it cute, together with some matching blue shutters for the home windows of the workshop and a few landscaping round it.
Right here’s the place it’s important to overlook my junk pile, which is even bigger after we mixed the junk/demo pile with the scrap lumber pile yesterday. However right here’s a take a look at my model new ramp connecting the carport to the workshop.
Oh, and look! Lots of you in previous posts have talked about that I would like a greater place for my trash cans (which had been all the time someplace on the entrance of the home). They match completely proper right here, and it is a very handy place for them!
Okay, listed below are a couple of extra footage introduced with out commentary. Simply inform me that is probably the most attractive concrete you’ve ever seen. 😀
The full price of the entire driveway and ramp got here to $23,700. That features $3,600 for having all the timber eliminated (though additionally they cleared out piles of limbs from different areas of the front and back yard), after which $20,100 for the concrete. The concrete and labor price $16,750 for the driveway (which is 167 ft lengthy, 16 ft huge in most locations, however 24 ft huge by the carport), and $3,350 for the ramp. The entire venture (driveway and ramp) required 50 yards of concrete, which I used to be instructed is half the quantity used for the typical house basis.
I can’t wait to get my energy washer out and clear up the ground of the carport and the facet pad for the facet door steps. I don’t know that I can get it so clear that it’ll match the brand new concrete, but it surely’ll positively clear up sufficient to look fairly shut. And in addition, I want I may tear down that sunroom at the moment. Now that issues within the again yard are beginning to occur, I simply hate trying in the back of that sunroom. However it’ll all occur in time. I simply must be affected person. For now, I’ll simply look the opposite course and admire my new stunning driveway and ramp.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
