Backyard Retreat

One of the biggest renovations was adding a complete backyard retreat. When purchasing our home we knew it had great backyard potential. But what we did not know was how much money we had to invest. Definitely went over budget, our initial budget was $8,000 but we added a Pergola which I will show you later. Today I will only show the other expenses.

Right Side 

Left Side

 

We started with adding the cement and re staging the AC conditioners as you guys can see it was right next to the sliding door making it very noisy.  A few months later we added the sprinkler system and the grass and trees as the same time. After a few months later our backyard had a huge transformation.  As you can see in the bottom photos.

 

Right side View

Right side view with cement

 Playground & Chalk Board

 

Side view

We saved money since my husband install the playground and grass. We made the Chalkboard and sand box from scratch so we only added the material expense on the side. We will post the Pergola Soon. Also this summer we added more than 25 Plants around our home so we definitely made more investments in our backyard. Photos will be coming soon.  

Our budget estimate was around $8000

The reality was buying

Trees & flowers

Grass

Cement

Sprinkler system

Rocks

Mulch

Playground

Sand box

Chalkboard

Wood door

Moving AC units to the side

$10,900