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Expanding Our Living Area with An Outdoor Addition part 2

February 19, 2021 by Kimberly Snyder 4 Comments

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Living in Southwest Florida does have its perks!  One is the ability to enjoy your backyard almost year round!

In Order to go from this:

 

Lanai at the Florida House March 2018

and this:

to get to this:

lanai closeup from east

First they have to do all this:

Grading the back yard for the pool

Grading the ground for the pool

and of course, we have to save the concrete slabs!

pool grading- lifting concrete

Lifting piece of concrete

Gracie is the General Contractor on the project and she is giving this stage its final approval.

Gracie inspecting the grading

We made the decision to add a pool and outdoor kitchen to our backyard in addition to expanding the existing lanai.  The planning process was outlined here:

One Saturday in mid-December, the crew showed up to grade the backyard.  Prior to that, we had removed some of the landscaping.  Dave has also removed several landscape pavers and shoveled rock out of the way.

We asked the guys to move two concrete slabs out of their way and save them so we could re-use them.

The next step is the dig.  Stay tuned for details about that!

If you want to see where the project started, you can find that information here :Expanding Our Living Area with an Outdoor Addition

The information about the dig can be found here: Expanding Our Living Area With an Outdoor Addition Part 3

 

 

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  1. Dave says

    February 20, 2021 at 4:29 pm

    where is Gracie’s hard hat??

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Hello! Kimberly (Kim) Snyder and I'm glad you're here. An entrepreneurial spirit, I've owned a flower shop and antiques store, a pizza parlor and now we're in Florida living a new adventure. Join me as we downsize into our new digs and continue the adventures! WRITER & BLOGGER

Kimberly Snyder shares the adventures of moving to Florida and beginning again in a new space as a herbalist, a creative, and a serial entrepreneur

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