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Also wanted to add - landscape lighting! If you're interested in adding some (assuming you don't have any?) LED technology has made adding them a true DIY process, saving a ton of money! Our old house was new construction, so we had Charlie Brown trees. Our current house has mature trees. Between up-lighting floods against the front of the house and trees, walkway down lights, and a few in-ground "well" lights, I installed 26 lights around the front, back and sides to our house myself. Took me three days because I had to bury 600 feet of wire with a spade, but wasn't hard at all. In total, the lights pull down 148 watts total! That's the equivenlent of a single normal light bulb. Cost? Maybe $1,000 total. Lights are substantial in materials too, metal casing, metal stakes, etc. Made a massive difference. Bought it all from Home Depot (Hunter brand). Since you have the hot tub wired up, I presume a throw box is nearby along the house. Just have an electrician add a normal outlet from that throw box, and that's your new control outlet for the lights. Really easy to do.
Thank you - yes, we had an outlet added when they put in the box for the hot tub, just in case.
There are so many really cool lighting ideas out there! One that I really like is simple - lights wrapped around two tree trunks a few yards apart (we have that) and then lights strung between the two trees randomly, not really in straight lines, just looped around the branches. It's so beautiful! That really appeals to me.
I have a few solar powered lights around on the patio and they work surprisingly well. But I'll definitely be revisiting the whole light thing when we get it all done.
Still waiting on the tile and the hot tub but the outdoor curtains came in! I'm pretty sure our neighbors don't want to see fifty something year old bodies, or fifty shades of anything either, in that hot tub.
Still waiting on the tile and the hot tub but the outdoor curtains came in! I'm pretty sure our neighbors don't want to see fifty something year old bodies, or fifty shades of anything either, in that hot tub.
They look really nice, I know it wasn't a coiencidence (sp)that the curtains match the trees so perfectly
Actually, it is a good idea, vines or anything crawling like I originally thought would just fall into the tub and you'd have to clean it, so yes, I think the curtains were a much better idea.
OK, so lets get to the fire pit, love the stacked stone, I just love it.
Its good, progress is being made.
Isnt it great with digital cameras you can take hundreds of pictures of all these projects and just load them up all in a matter of minutes.
They look really nice, I know it wasn't a coiencidence (sp)that the curtains match the trees so perfectly
Actually, it is a good idea, vines or anything crawling like I originally thought would just fall into the tub and you'd have to clean it, so yes, I think the curtains were a much better idea.
OK, so lets get to the fire pit, love the stacked stone, I just love it.
Its good, progress is being made.
Isnt it great with digital cameras you can take hundreds of pictures of all these projects and just load them up all in a matter of minutes.
Ha, thank you! Here are today's pictures! The last two are of the tile - peeking through the boxes getting ready to be laid out tomorrow. The first is a picture of the majority of the tiles - a plain gray that looks like concrete, 24" x 24" tiles. The next is of the medallion embossed tiles. We have twenty of them. They are also 24" x 24" They are going to be randomly set out among the plain tiles.
^ I love the tiles, the gray is classic, timeless, never goes out of style and the medallion you chose is not an "loud in your face", type of tile, but a subtle break up in the midst of the plain ones. I think it is going to look great.
Maybe few "terra-cotta" flower pots placed around, ( I love terra-cotta ) sorry, had to throw an idea in...would look great on those tiles.
Now the gold stuff on the concrete, is what?
the underlay for the tiles to stick?, like a thin set, or membrane? (now I sound like a science teacher) LOL.
also, are you going to place the tiles straight, like regular, or the popular diamond shape effect?
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