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FRONT

When we moved here, it was a blank slate and barren. We've planted over 100 trees and shrubs and added 7 new garden beds, a kitchen garden, a meadow and an orchard.

BACK + SIDE YARDS

We decided to create a meadow in the small orchard on the right side of the house that we mow twice a year. There's been a noticeable increase in birds, butterflies and beneficial insects since we let the orchard meadow grow. All of the outbuildings pictured here were covered in white plastic siding that we removed to find the original wood German-style siding underneath. We're still in the process of scraping and painting these areas, but the garage building is finished and now painted red.

FLOATING DECK ADDITION

We discovered in the back of the house there were actually two additional exterior doors that had been sealed up. We decided to uncover one of them and build a floating deck off of it to provide us with a semi-private outdoor space just off of the kitchen. All of the wood used to create the base for the floating deck was built with wood reclaimed from shelving we tore out of the studio building.

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