looking ahead #1.

On a walk around the neighborhood the other night there was this nice little Craftsman house that had Christmas lights decked out on their trees and stuff in their backyard. And I immediately envisioned a warm summer evening like that one. My back patio was all laid (going to lay pavers like the ones I used for my sidewalks). I had built a patio cover out of cedar (there's one in the neighborhood I'm going to photograph to use as a starting point for a design). It had vines growing on it and of course was strung up with Christmas lights casting a warm glow. I had built myself some patio furniture. A pair of chaise lounge chairs. The garage was all done painted and the cedar shake was up and a new garage car door and people door (5 panel solid fir shaker of course) with new trim. A light next to the door like the one I installed by the back house door. And the landscaping in the backyard was done along both fences and the back of the house. Dark mulch with varied-coloured stones lining the border. A laundry line I'll build between the garage and the patio with some of that mulch and rock border and some nice little plants.

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I sometimes daydream about what this place will look like with all the visions in my head complete. There's one.