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Our Easy Method to Clean a Pea Stone Patio of Winter Debris Including Pinecones and Pine Needles/Rock Garden and Yard Cleanup
We love out outdoor space. We have a nice lot surrounded by woods, a pool and a pea stone patio and pergola we put in two years ago. We live in the Northeast so the canopy that covers the pergola during the summer months is taken down and stored during the winter months. This leaves the pea stone exposed to all the debris falling from the surrounding pine trees. Pinecones, when whole, are no problem to remove but when thousands of dried scales fall onto the patio and become mixed into the pea stone it is EXTREMELY difficult to clean. Not only is it messy looking, the scales can be…
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How We Assembled Our DIY Backyard Pea Stone Patio
This is how the patio began. Our yard was a large blank slate which was good and bad at the same time. It took a long time to decide where to start digging in and transforming the outside to a more livable space that was user friendly. There are so many options but one thing I wanted to do was keep the cost down. Outdoor spaces are the best, but in the Northeast you don’t really get to use them year round so we’re choosy about what we invest in. We had the picnic table in that same spot for a long time, but found we didn’t use it much.…
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Creating A Small Patio With Pavers For Our Grill/Easy DIY Yard Project
Pallets are useful around the yard but the new grill and yard updates we had planned definitely warranted something more. The porch is small and needs to be replaced so relocating the grill in front of the chimney seemed to be the best option. I also like it there because of the heat it puts off. I have several ideas where these pallets could be put to better use. This is a look at the back of my home approximately halfway down the yard. The rocks outlining the picnic table in the foreground will, hopefully, soon become our outdoor pea stone patio. That will be another blog. When we went…