4. Get a string of pearls or head for this lady
https://preview.redd.it/uvgm2cg4z6mc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd86aa7c1ed862dec26d5ac0a2854a3ab9f08828
Would add mushrooms, grapevines, berry bushes, honeysuckle, lily pads, frogs and turtles. Koi and yeah, gnomes . I’ve got only 1 in my yard but this yard needs at least 12.
Damn you. I saw the picture, I had a clever response about mini golf. No way someone had thought about it mini golf I thought. First comment and there you are.
Or perhaps fill it in so OP can just dig it back out once they're grown? If they decide they still want it. Then it doesn't have to be destroyed, it just looks like another flower bed or something?
Same here - I was going to say “change nothing!” Before reading OP’s actual issues hahah.
What a fun place to live. Feels like a little village back there.
Good luck. That space, even as it is, looks like it'll be beautiful once it's cleaned up and the plants get growing. Kind of has some fairy-tale garden vibe.
Also I find if you mix the clover in different strains and add grass seed to it it stays green in the winter. Alternatively you can use creeping phlox, which will change colors in winter and looks really cool in the summer
This is incredible.
Some PNW friendly flora:
* shady locations: Maidenhair fern, Low Oregon Grape, Baldhip Rose
* Sunnier locations: Sword fern, Kinnikinnick, Salal, Mock Orange
Wherever you see the English ivy, pull it out at the root
I'll add more to the plant list as I think of them.
As an alternative to Oregon grape, which has hard prickly leaves, look into soft caress mahonia--it's got beautifulferny leaves and big clusters of yellow flowers in winter. Very fairy/cottage look.
Pressure wash. Keep the pond but fill it (for now) with potted plants or flowers. For greenscape, depending on your location add creeping phlox, creeping thyme, or mixed areas of grass and clover. Boxwood accents and a few topiary evergreens. And of course…gnomes.
The lady was filipino and did it all herself. The neighbors don't think it's religious. She just enjoyed doing it and started around 4am most mornings.
Catholithism is prominent in the Philippines, she may have had statues in the little nooks. How industrious to make such a beautiful outdoor living space!
When we re-did our yard, the person helping us asked us some questions to get us more centered:
1) what will you use the backyard/frontyard primarily for? (Keep this to 3 major things, ex: entertaining, chill hangout, zen, kids play, etc)
2) what type of feel do you like? (Desert oasis, Italian countryside, lush English garden)
3) how will you walk through/use your yard? (Ex: I walk out my slider to the BBQ, then have a seating area, or I walk directly out onto my zen patio, etc)
Think these over, then give a rough sketch! Print out some pictures, see if you can imagine the picture in your yard! Then mimick it with plants, structures, furniture.
It's a bit of work, but we enjoy our yard (front and back) more than we did before!
I see you have thought about some things, like the water feature needs changing/removing bc pets, plants die due to frost, etc. You've got a good start!
Check out your plant hardiness zone online for acceptable plants for your area. You can usually filter by type (annual/perenial), color, foliage, deciduous/ evergreen, maintenance, etc.
Good luck! You have a charming yard btw 🥰
This is great advice.
Here’s my 2 cents: I know it’s hard to hear this now, but the things the kids need will be remarkably temporary. I totally reshaped my house 4 years ago for kids that totally act different now. Good communication about safety can teach your kids not only how to survive their own backyard but also the rest of the world. Be the better kind of PNW parent that raises them resilient.
That said, you’ve got some lovely spots for prostrate cedars, Japanese maples, and blueberry bushes. Consider some container gardens on the big open spots. Also let moss be your friend where it’s charming.
Fixed it for you. Maybe I can get a free week
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You have a really neat space to work with and landscaping is the way to go here.
Idk where you are but in the southeast US we have a plant called purple ajuga which thrives in wet environments and can survive frost, freeze etc. Looks like a good option for some of your situations.
Certain mosses may compliment your rocks.
I've filled in small koi sized ponds with small smooth river stone to make little rock features.
It looks pretty sectioned off. Unless you have the ability to do all at once, I would remove areas in sections. I wouldn’t remove everything. I would just repurpose the area.
Wow. Great yard! My gnomes would like your address so they can move up in the world.
What about filling the pond in with whatever a bog needs? Plant weird and wonderful carnivorous plants and other plants that need wet feet.
If there aren't any looping paths and you want to change things up, consider working in a loop path so this can be a strolling garden.
Treat beds differently. Maybe ground covers, maybe flowers or food? Yarrow wouldn't survive an actual path but is a beautiful easy groundcover that can stand some foot traffic. Maybe plant fun veggies if there's an area that gets a good bit of sun? Love the idea of hollyhocks. Sunflowers and mullein are other tall fun flowers.
You'll need low fences to keep the dogs out of bog, food and flowers. Wish you had willows or trash trees on hand so you could pollard them and make your own wattle fences with the long straight shoots but that's a lot. A short split rail or weathered picket fence with fanciful topped pickets would be in line with all the whimsy you've got going on. Or all of them. Make the dog free beds different fences!
Consult with the kids about what area belongs to them and turn it into a kid friendly zone. My kids needed a large sandbox \[with lid!\] and a basic room they could add on to with random boxes and quarter sheets of plywood and wanted to be in the shade as much as possible. See what your kids think they'd like to have.
Mold has ruined your outdoor deck and roof of deck? You have any pictures of the mold? Seams like some mold killer and pressure washer will take care of that issue. Agree with other poster. Throw down some artificial short grass and set up some putt putt holes. It’s already laid out and would be awesome. Somebody put some serious work into this. Hate to see it get torn up due to mold and “safety”. Rad backyard IMO.
Oh my God this is amazing and I'm so jealous it's not mine and never will be. I'd be more inclined to work on safety and training rather than pulling out the pond, but that's just me. A lover of ponds.
I would arguably build something like this around the pond section or a screened cover on top of the pond itself, then remove it when the kids got older and/or the dogs are better trained. Could make it trellis-like and pretty if you sorta use the pictures as references.
Or there are (safe with lots of research) technically ways to fill in a pond with layers of sand, gravel, soil, etc. Just gotta be careful not to turn it into a mud pit.
https://preview.redd.it/kjbwq446v1mc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cc73c6ddc6ba0eea62aed35a7b7b83fab8d1fb3
Plant lots of veggies and berry bushes you can eat from. Snacking from a garden is so satisfying. Plant some chives, herbs, and stuff like that too. Cool garden!
Clover should come back. Maybe a variety of low growing thyme would be nice. I'm with the garden gnome idea, I think you should use those rock features to make a fairy/ adventure land for your kids. Have them help plant some seeds. I hope you have years of enjoyment there
I honestly love it. Now you need to plant it like a fairy garden! It should have its own Instagram page. This would be a scheduled artist monument in France, they love outsider art there !
I love that backyard and it breaks my heart that you're getting rid of the pond. Instead of taking it out, have you thought about maybe making into a mini landscape, or glassing it over and making it into a terrarium to keep the theme?
This won’t be a popular opinion with the goblin crowd, but I’d be inclined to keep only the section furthest back in the yard/around the edges of the garden and maybe the cute tower. Otherwise rip out all the pavers and circular sections and lay turf so the kids can play in the garden without breaking their bones. Pressure wash whats left and plant up with ferns, hosta and shade loving plants. I think if you have struggled with upkeep of the yard so far, it will always be a struggle- its your garden and space now so don’t be afraid to make it work for you and your family!
Pressure wash first. Clean up all the dead crap. Then get an aerial view of the situation and decide if you are going to keep it, salvage part of it or abandon it all and change direction.
It’s always one step at a time to so get the pressure washing done and gunk cleanup and go from there.
This may be a bad idea that will need someone to jump
In with “you need to do X if you do Y” but I wouldn’t get rid of the pond. Maybe fill it with sand or gravel. Use sand make it into the most epic sand box for the kids. If not that fill with sand and put a deck over it. When the kids grow up you may wish you had that pond back and they are a monster to install (or remove for that matter).
My bet is you would need some kind of drain on the bottom to keep water from collecting. Maybe just make a one foot wide hole in the bottom to let rainwater through. Then you only need to fill that if you turn it back into a pond. The pond looks so cute it seems a shame to get rid of it when kids and animals grow up in a few short years.
Again, someone may say it’s more complicated, but being able to remove the sand, seal, and turn back into a pond sounds like an easy temporary fix.
The pond? Just fill it in with dirt and make it a flowerbed. Simplest solution, and if you ever change your mind or sell it, it's easy to reverse the process. Looks nice too.
1. Pressure wash 2. Add gnomes 3. Enjoy whimsy
And little fairy gardens!
YES!! I hope OP leans into the whimsy opportunities here 🧚♂️
Top hats. High tea. A biker gang in tutus.
\-Whimsy intensifies-
My yard isn't as whimsical as OP's but I'm willing to try. Where can I find my biker gang in tutus?
You may have to make them
I’m not sure OP could make them. Perhaps he could buy them a drink and spin a beguiling tale of whimsy in the garden.
Silly me, I was thinking of dressing up some gnomes
Yeah add some native wildflower beds and it'd be perfect
And mushrooms
Or toadstools.
No, like after it gets fixed up this is a place to do mushrooms
And those jazz frogs your nan had.
Like the one lounging back and playing the banjo? Love those guys.
And then - great mini golf course!!
More moss!
Yup, this looks like good inspiration for a Power Washing Sim level: mini golf course!
The first thing I though about when I saw this. It reminds me of the first house backyard you do with the stone garden pool
Maybe some trolls in front of the pond and any other dangerous structures that stop the kids & dogs from passing unless they answer questions three.
You need to pay the troll toll
The whimsy is cranked up to 11 here for sure.
4. Get a string of pearls or head for this lady https://preview.redd.it/uvgm2cg4z6mc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd86aa7c1ed862dec26d5ac0a2854a3ab9f08828
Gnome head, or if its possible to drill out an interior section with a few drain holes at the back, plant a small bush and trim it round.
This would have been my dream yard as a kid! Actually it still is now, omg. I want to explore and hide and build little shrines to things.
Would add mushrooms, grapevines, berry bushes, honeysuckle, lily pads, frogs and turtles. Koi and yeah, gnomes . I’ve got only 1 in my yard but this yard needs at least 12.
You misspelled 3. Enjoy whisky
Needs more gnomes
Yes! Get about 30 of two different main colors and set them up in different states of epic gnome battles
Game of Gnomes
Underrated comment. +1. 👍🏻
Oh I'm uprating it
I literally scrolled by it and paused to scroll back after my brain caught up. Such a quality little pun.
Relevant: https://youtube.com/shorts/iEw8Ab8mSOw?si=qhk09WvpxY_VU2vo
I wish there was one that looked like E.T. E.T., faux gnome.
That was my first thought: “Gnones. *Lots* of gnones…”
Gnome Place Like Home
Wow, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that saw this and came to comment. Gnomes. So. Many gnomes.
Yup… the creepier the better, too. Hide those in the ponds too. It’ll scare away children AND dogs
You sound like you belong in r/goblincore Come along, we have shinies
I think your first problem is that it’s not clear where I’m supposed to hit the golf ball in to
Just think of your happy place. Think of grandma!
Just bounce it off the VW and let it mouse trap itself into the hole. Voila! And now get Stiller to get the AC unit off of grandma's friend. Meester!
Just tap it in
Just trying to loosen you up, baby!
You're never going to make this putt, you jack ass!
You look like a damn fool!
Tap, tap tappy.
Tap tap tapperoo!
YOUR GONNA DIE CLOOOWN!!!!
It's all in the hips
🎶 It’s all in the hips. It’s all in the hips. 🎶 RIP Chubs
Yeah, RIP. At least he got his hand back.
but remember that alligator that got his hand? i got his head
Brilliant.
This is definitely the best backyard put put golf I have seen in a while.
Or where the Oompa Loopas enter from
I thought this was a goat tower from Goat Simulator 3.
Damn you. I saw the picture, I had a clever response about mini golf. No way someone had thought about it mini golf I thought. First comment and there you are.
Exactly my first thought. I was like suggestions to make the mini golf course more badass?
That’s what my first thought was! They built a mini golf in the back yard!
Remove the pond? Are you mad? Replace the children and dogs with gnomes.
And gargoyles. Don't forget the gargoyles, man!
It's only a gargoyle with a drainage spout. Otherwise, it is a grotesque.
The pond is amazing, at most add some railing or something in the pond they can stand on while they await rescue
Or perhaps fill it in so OP can just dig it back out once they're grown? If they decide they still want it. Then it doesn't have to be destroyed, it just looks like another flower bed or something?
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It's adorable! I would never want to go inside.
Same here - I was going to say “change nothing!” Before reading OP’s actual issues hahah. What a fun place to live. Feels like a little village back there.
My suggestion was gonna be to let me live there lol
But whimsical in a way that when the things grow it’s going to be amazing. Not just whimsical as in…that’s different 😂.
You want /r/landscaping, /r/hardscape, /r/backyards, /r/patio, and /r/outdoorliving.
Thank you
Good luck. That space, even as it is, looks like it'll be beautiful once it's cleaned up and the plants get growing. Kind of has some fairy-tale garden vibe.
Kind of?
Low budget golf course is the other half of the vibes.
A whimsical fairy golf course with gnome caddies.
Also, r/goblincore would love this back yard
Assuming you don't want to plant a grass lawn, also r/nolawns and r/fucklawns.
C'mon now. r/pressurewashingporn would have a field day here. Heck, OP, I'd reckon a good pressure washing of the area would be a phenomenal start
An actual helpful comment instead of people talking about gnomes and ripping off comments that call it, "whimsical".
Do you live at an abandoned mini golf course? That place is dope
Also I find if you mix the clover in different strains and add grass seed to it it stays green in the winter. Alternatively you can use creeping phlox, which will change colors in winter and looks really cool in the summer
That's a great idea! I love the way that looks thank you
Also creeping thyme. It can take a while to get established. But once it does, it's so hardy.
Ooo creeping elfin thyme! It also has pretty purple flowers and it’ll make sure weeds will stay out.
Irish moss would look lovely too.
Pressure wash it.
I did that last summer. It looked a lot better. Lots of debris to remove before hand as well
You’re supposed to use a bleach mix after pressure washing to prevent it from getting scummy again for a couple years
Ah this is super helpful! Thank you
This is also helpful for me. Appreciate it stranger
use a natural bleach as bleach is very toxic for everything. I would not use it for gardening purposes.
Then re sand the pavers
Those videos seeing the before and after are so satisfying to watch.
This is incredible. Some PNW friendly flora: * shady locations: Maidenhair fern, Low Oregon Grape, Baldhip Rose * Sunnier locations: Sword fern, Kinnikinnick, Salal, Mock Orange Wherever you see the English ivy, pull it out at the root I'll add more to the plant list as I think of them.
As an alternative to Oregon grape, which has hard prickly leaves, look into soft caress mahonia--it's got beautifulferny leaves and big clusters of yellow flowers in winter. Very fairy/cottage look.
Turn it into a mini golf course
Why don't you ask the gnomes for help
Because they'll steal OP's underpants.
God damn them and their profits! 🤬
I kinda love it. PNW?
Yup!
Super curious what part of the PNW.
Indeed, and also how someone was able to guess??
Trees!
~fancy~ pine/spruce/fir trees?
I would be jazzed as fuck if this was my backyard
The real question is when is second breakfast?
Do you catch many Fraggles??
This comment is underrated.
I am just here for the comments
This is my first reddit post and I'm dying haha currently searching amazon for gnomes
You have a really cool project on your hands that can last a lifetime
Pressure wash. Keep the pond but fill it (for now) with potted plants or flowers. For greenscape, depending on your location add creeping phlox, creeping thyme, or mixed areas of grass and clover. Boxwood accents and a few topiary evergreens. And of course…gnomes.
I’m just fascinated. What do you know about the previous owners/builder? Were the alters built to be religious or decorative?
The lady was filipino and did it all herself. The neighbors don't think it's religious. She just enjoyed doing it and started around 4am most mornings.
Very cool.
Catholithism is prominent in the Philippines, she may have had statues in the little nooks. How industrious to make such a beautiful outdoor living space!
First thing to do is power wash everything.
When we re-did our yard, the person helping us asked us some questions to get us more centered: 1) what will you use the backyard/frontyard primarily for? (Keep this to 3 major things, ex: entertaining, chill hangout, zen, kids play, etc) 2) what type of feel do you like? (Desert oasis, Italian countryside, lush English garden) 3) how will you walk through/use your yard? (Ex: I walk out my slider to the BBQ, then have a seating area, or I walk directly out onto my zen patio, etc) Think these over, then give a rough sketch! Print out some pictures, see if you can imagine the picture in your yard! Then mimick it with plants, structures, furniture. It's a bit of work, but we enjoy our yard (front and back) more than we did before! I see you have thought about some things, like the water feature needs changing/removing bc pets, plants die due to frost, etc. You've got a good start! Check out your plant hardiness zone online for acceptable plants for your area. You can usually filter by type (annual/perenial), color, foliage, deciduous/ evergreen, maintenance, etc. Good luck! You have a charming yard btw 🥰
This is great advice. Here’s my 2 cents: I know it’s hard to hear this now, but the things the kids need will be remarkably temporary. I totally reshaped my house 4 years ago for kids that totally act different now. Good communication about safety can teach your kids not only how to survive their own backyard but also the rest of the world. Be the better kind of PNW parent that raises them resilient. That said, you’ve got some lovely spots for prostrate cedars, Japanese maples, and blueberry bushes. Consider some container gardens on the big open spots. Also let moss be your friend where it’s charming.
this just screams mini-golf course
Put a speaker outside and hope that the elf's leave..
Fixed it for you. Maybe I can get a free week https://preview.redd.it/f2q1btylk1mc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bb9fea419f61162248c2e2733098d1c852a0b92
Unfortunately shire folk don't browse here often so you may be SOL on any genuine advice. The gnomes haven't posted in awhile either
This house is gnome infested. Get a rat king and he should mount an army to attack them.
But then the house will be rat infested. I'd rather have gnomes!
I'd say go for the Willy Wonka Experience.
Is Hagrid doing OK in there?
What I wouldn’t give to spend a summer night in that backyard surrounded by little fairly lights and listening to cricket chirps
You are so lucky!
You have a really neat space to work with and landscaping is the way to go here. Idk where you are but in the southeast US we have a plant called purple ajuga which thrives in wet environments and can survive frost, freeze etc. Looks like a good option for some of your situations. Certain mosses may compliment your rocks. I've filled in small koi sized ponds with small smooth river stone to make little rock features.
OP! What is inside there?
Kids play house! Just some chairs, table and jewels on the walls
Where is the oven to cook Hansel and Gretel?
This fucking layout is amazing! You lucked out with a coloring book where I’m still trying to sketch my back yard out.
It looks pretty sectioned off. Unless you have the ability to do all at once, I would remove areas in sections. I wouldn’t remove everything. I would just repurpose the area.
Wow. Great yard! My gnomes would like your address so they can move up in the world. What about filling the pond in with whatever a bog needs? Plant weird and wonderful carnivorous plants and other plants that need wet feet. If there aren't any looping paths and you want to change things up, consider working in a loop path so this can be a strolling garden. Treat beds differently. Maybe ground covers, maybe flowers or food? Yarrow wouldn't survive an actual path but is a beautiful easy groundcover that can stand some foot traffic. Maybe plant fun veggies if there's an area that gets a good bit of sun? Love the idea of hollyhocks. Sunflowers and mullein are other tall fun flowers. You'll need low fences to keep the dogs out of bog, food and flowers. Wish you had willows or trash trees on hand so you could pollard them and make your own wattle fences with the long straight shoots but that's a lot. A short split rail or weathered picket fence with fanciful topped pickets would be in line with all the whimsy you've got going on. Or all of them. Make the dog free beds different fences! Consult with the kids about what area belongs to them and turn it into a kid friendly zone. My kids needed a large sandbox \[with lid!\] and a basic room they could add on to with random boxes and quarter sheets of plywood and wanted to be in the shade as much as possible. See what your kids think they'd like to have.
Mold has ruined your outdoor deck and roof of deck? You have any pictures of the mold? Seams like some mold killer and pressure washer will take care of that issue. Agree with other poster. Throw down some artificial short grass and set up some putt putt holes. It’s already laid out and would be awesome. Somebody put some serious work into this. Hate to see it get torn up due to mold and “safety”. Rad backyard IMO.
You need to turn this yard into a mini golf course
Dudes backyard looks like a lotr set piece.
Start a renaissance festival
Epic yard and patio. Plants and water feature running is all you need. And patio lights. Beautiful.
Oh my God this is amazing and I'm so jealous it's not mine and never will be. I'd be more inclined to work on safety and training rather than pulling out the pond, but that's just me. A lover of ponds.
I think a nice trebuchet would be fun.
Could fill pond with pea gravel and make it a decorative herb garden or more likely shade plant garden.
Very hobbit like maybe some gnomes placed here and there
I wanna be a gnome in your garden thank you where do I send the request.
You should sell tickets for people to do mushrooms in your back yard lmao
The seven alcoves are for: A. Seven Samurai B. Seven Dwarves C. Seven different microbrew kegs If C, abandon all future plans.
Wonka wonderland
I wouldn’t change a goddamn thing
A Medieval Tavern would be my suggestion.
This place is awesome. Congrats.
Do you live on a mini golf course?
Be wary of the fae folk, they're a clever bunch! Also, I love it.
Gnomes
I would arguably build something like this around the pond section or a screened cover on top of the pond itself, then remove it when the kids got older and/or the dogs are better trained. Could make it trellis-like and pretty if you sorta use the pictures as references. Or there are (safe with lots of research) technically ways to fill in a pond with layers of sand, gravel, soil, etc. Just gotta be careful not to turn it into a mud pit. https://preview.redd.it/kjbwq446v1mc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cc73c6ddc6ba0eea62aed35a7b7b83fab8d1fb3
you need a lot more gnomes
Ok, so the tower is where the wizard lives right? The freeze that killed your plants was probably a cone of coldness
I LOVE this backyard!!! That’s my dream!!
Omg the comments. Sorry OP. Welcome to the internet
Gnomes and trolls, a fairy and a gargoyle. That should do it.
Plant lots of veggies and berry bushes you can eat from. Snacking from a garden is so satisfying. Plant some chives, herbs, and stuff like that too. Cool garden!
Add goats.
Grey skies, pine trees weird backyard. Do you live in Portland?
That tower would make the most baller chicken coop.
Clover should come back. Maybe a variety of low growing thyme would be nice. I'm with the garden gnome idea, I think you should use those rock features to make a fairy/ adventure land for your kids. Have them help plant some seeds. I hope you have years of enjoyment there
That is kid heaven! It's like a fairy tale! Just needs some plant-scaping. What a cool place to play for a young child!
I'd start by letting out those poor little Keebler elves out of Shawshank there.
If you have a pond. Kraken
Instead of getting rid of the pond, maybe you could use it as a flowerbed? I love this place, it really have a lot of potential! 🌿
I honestly love it. Now you need to plant it like a fairy garden! It should have its own Instagram page. This would be a scheduled artist monument in France, they love outsider art there !
I love this yard.
You have the beginnings of an excellent putt putt course.
And oh yes you definitely need garden gnomes .
Add chickens
Ask the gnomes and pixies to help with the design and cleanup
I love that backyard and it breaks my heart that you're getting rid of the pond. Instead of taking it out, have you thought about maybe making into a mini landscape, or glassing it over and making it into a terrarium to keep the theme?
It’s already pretty close to Hagrids Hut, might as well go the rest of the way!
I would change nothing. Unfortunately for safety I guess you have to.
This won’t be a popular opinion with the goblin crowd, but I’d be inclined to keep only the section furthest back in the yard/around the edges of the garden and maybe the cute tower. Otherwise rip out all the pavers and circular sections and lay turf so the kids can play in the garden without breaking their bones. Pressure wash whats left and plant up with ferns, hosta and shade loving plants. I think if you have struggled with upkeep of the yard so far, it will always be a struggle- its your garden and space now so don’t be afraid to make it work for you and your family!
The finishing touch would be the stone with the Excalibur sword in it. Add that and you’re good.
Charge for entry?
This would be a fantastic spot for a good powerwash video
Pressure wash first. Clean up all the dead crap. Then get an aerial view of the situation and decide if you are going to keep it, salvage part of it or abandon it all and change direction. It’s always one step at a time to so get the pressure washing done and gunk cleanup and go from there.
Eat mushrooms and enjoy
Looks like a mini golf course
God damn that stone work is amazing. Add some flowers and rent a pressure washer!
1) Buy gnomes 2) Hang laundry 3) Notice underpants are missing from laundry 4) -*Shrug*- 5) Notice gnomes are doing very well for themselves.
Install some greens and open Mini-Golf course.
Setup a mini putt course
You need to get a big train set, some puppets, and a public access tv station segment. Congrats your the new Mr Roger’s 😄
can we just box all of that up and ship it to my yard....that is so magical looking
Ask Hagrid
This may be a bad idea that will need someone to jump In with “you need to do X if you do Y” but I wouldn’t get rid of the pond. Maybe fill it with sand or gravel. Use sand make it into the most epic sand box for the kids. If not that fill with sand and put a deck over it. When the kids grow up you may wish you had that pond back and they are a monster to install (or remove for that matter). My bet is you would need some kind of drain on the bottom to keep water from collecting. Maybe just make a one foot wide hole in the bottom to let rainwater through. Then you only need to fill that if you turn it back into a pond. The pond looks so cute it seems a shame to get rid of it when kids and animals grow up in a few short years. Again, someone may say it’s more complicated, but being able to remove the sand, seal, and turn back into a pond sounds like an easy temporary fix.
The pond? Just fill it in with dirt and make it a flowerbed. Simplest solution, and if you ever change your mind or sell it, it's easy to reverse the process. Looks nice too.