Lovely Landscape

When we moved into our house we knew we wanted to do something with the landscape.  It was pretty sparse and did not have a lot of interest.  The thing that bothered John the most though was the yard.  John is a lawn guy and the back yard was no way up to his standard.  We have had bad yards before and he has spent so much time trying to make them look nice.  He decided this time he would just get new sod in the back so he could work more on maintenance than starting from scratch.  I will say the results are awesome! 
We were kind of thinking more along the lines of trees and grass with some nice plants but our landscaper went beyond that.  He added a great paver patio some awesome rock walls and a nice berm that really adds to our yard.  We have large windows on the back of our house and now we can smile when we look outside instead of dreading the work that needed to be done.  

Before:  This is the back and part of the side of our house, unfortunately I don't have an after of the same angle.  The new rock wall below is where the old castle retaining wall was.

 After

Before:  Basically the view off our back deck 

 After view off the back deck.  It actually looks like a yard instead of a field and the castle rock from above was reused to make a little garden spot to grow things next spring and summer.

Before:  This is taken from the deck but what you used to see out our large living room window.

After:  Our new berm with trees that will grow and give us privacy from that other house. 

 Our new rock wall and paver patio

 The rest are changes to the front of the house and one more up close of the patio! Everyone will need to come and see the changes.