Our Backyard, Part 2: Dreams for the Future
To figure out our goals for the landscaping at our house, I started searching for visual inspiration. I’m ignorant enough about gardening and landscaping that I didn’t know the name for my preferred style until I decided to treat this like an interiors projects: gather images of what I love, and then find the thread that connects it all together. It didn’t take too long to find the thread connecting my images: I am super into cottage gardens.
Our Backyard, Part 1: What We’re Working With
Fun fact: I didn’t even want to look at the house we eventually bought. It was over our budget, and the pictures didn’t look spectacular. We’d looked at so many houses in person, and I’d flipped through dozens of other listings online. Why bother with another showing of a house that was out of our budget to begin with? But Joey said we should go. So we scheduled it. We walked through the house, and it was cute. It seemed like the perfect size for the two of us.
Then we stepped out onto the deck.
Our House, As it Exists Right Now
The week the world began to end, we closed on our first house. As we pried off baseboards and painted our bedroom, NASA told employees not to come back to the office... No social life, no in-person church, no international travel, but a house that was ours. A home that we slowly worked on, checking things off our list one weekend at a time.