Future Home of the Retaining Wall on the left
This type of Wall
Very Rough Idea
It’s just
south of 8 in the morning and I’m sitting outside and the humidity is already
sticking to me like thick and sticky maple
syrup. That and I’m nursing a slight G & T headache that I’m hoping caffeine
will make go away. Ahhh, the day can only get better.
My plan is
to go over this morning and meet with a mason about a retaining wall. Next to
the side porch we have an area where we’d like to have a patio. In order to
level the area off we’ll need a small retaining wall which I’d like to do with
flat rock so it looks like a rock wall (ahhh, need more coffee). We also need a
retaining wall next to the driveway so that the step off will be slight instead
of to the driveway below. We want to keep the porch open and not have to put
railings on it.
The idea is
to have granite steps leading up to a walkway to the porch steps. We’d like to
have plantings to the right of the porch steps (hydrangeas?) and below alongside
the driveway. The patio itself will be of bluestone or something similar. On
the upper and lower parts of the retaining wall we’ll have more plantings most
likely made up of hydrangeas, Day Lillies, Asiatics, Irises and other samplings
of the plant world.
We thought
having a patio on the side in addition to the back of the house will help us
catch the afternoon sun along with the southerly ocean breezes that we have
late in the day. I can imagine us sitting there with the G & T’s enjoying
life. Then I can start all over again the next day.
With coffee.
Enjoy your
day.
