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We thought about just keeping it for a few years, but knew that if we did eventually need to demo it out the machinery to do so would rip up any new landscaping we planted (which would be a lot). We had multiple resurfacers come to look at it and they all said they wouldn’t touch it because it would continue to crack. It was in very bad shape (huge cracks with tons of weeds growing through them) and we went through every option possible to see how we could possibly keep it and just make it better. But we LOVED the idea of it and like everyone else in the world, we are now into pickleball.
When we bought the property it had a massive sports court – like way bigger than a tennis court.
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We have to shoot around the house in May so we are focusing on those areas for now – hoping to plant in the next month in time for a rainy few months and then BOOM spring 🙂 A Sports Court Update Then the porch steps will get finished and the landscaping back here will begin (maybe – I’ll fill you in soon). Right now we have sewer issues holding up this area of the property – we can’t trench for electrical, plumbing, or irrigation to the other areas of the property until the sewer is fixed (it actually started yesterday). We still plan on adding shutters to the second floor (likely a medium tone blue – thinking Smoky Blue SW 7604 because we love it so much inside – also does anyone know a good shutter company?). We painted the house Pure White SW 7005, with Online SW 7072 as the trim color around the windows. The mini porch on the right is to the mudroom (and ideally where the kids/dogs will drop school bags/shoes once there is some hardscape to it).
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And thank you ARCIFORM for all your hard work turning it into this!!! You can see we added the back porch, sunroom, added a window upstairs so it’s more symmetrical, and all new windows on the bottom floor (vintage ones on top and sunroom windows to tie both styles together). Big thanks to every single reader who ever read a sentence on this blog. It’s so beautiful and grown up and well, I’m not sure I even deserve to live here but man am I grateful. It’s definitely not the house we bought 2 years ago. We live here and have obviously stared at this in person for weeks but looking at this photo while writing this sentence is an odd feeling – it’s not a house I ever pictured I’d be able to own or live in. ARCIFORM really did an incredible job designing and executing the back porch, sunroom, and extending that wing. It’s wild to see how far we’ve come! I think “Progress part 1” was about a year ago. The two big bushes blocked all the light to the living room and we knew we were going to open up the doors anyway so those were taken out. This was the view to the back porch when we bought the house. She did the illustration above to help show us and you what we are working with. She was about to launch her own firm after working at larger landscape architecture firms for years and we just really loved her vibe and vision. We hired Cali of Studio Campo pretty quickly after talking to her on the phone and Zoom. The Property When We Bought It made by studio campo All of it is in the works to rehab, but honestly, it won’t be done for like 5 years and that’s okay (for the most part). As a reminder it’s almost 3 acres, and came with two houses (one I’ve barely shown you that needs everything and one we are living in), a massive sheep barn/carriage house that is falling down, a smaller barn that is so cute that I can’t wait to transform into something, a well house that we had to demo and now rebuild because we won the lottery and turns out it works(!), another well house that doesn’t work but acts as a cute shed, an enclosed paddock for future livestock, a sweet but not too healthy apple and pear orchard, and world’s longest cutest and most run down driveway.
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Oh, how I wish this was something we knew how to do ourselves or had the bandwidth to learn, but we don’t and instead are lucky enough to hire some experienced minds on both the design and the execution. But after 2 years of construction and no maintenance, it needed more than tweaking. We’d add some chickens, goats, an alpaca or three, and a veggie garden then call it a day – and to some extent that hasn’t changed. We started brainstorming two years ago, thinking/hoping that we’d just landscape around the house and tackle the rest in phases. Having 2 1/2 acres of flat land close to a neighborhood and schools was a fantasy, and is why we finally moved back after wanting to for 10 years.
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It’s exhilarating, intimidating, scary (financially), and yet we are full of hope and extremely grateful. We don’t have a final plan (will we ever?) and yet are moving quickly in some ways, very slowly in others which makes documenting a challenge. This landscaping project has been hard for me to get my mind around.
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