Concept Complete!

I just recently completed a concept design for a residential project in the Inland Empire. It was a blank slate and we had to work with an existing slope and very wide, but shallow lot. Lots of fun design elements including fire pit with seat wall, built in dining area, two small water features, a vine covered pergola with built in day bed, fruit trees, a vegetable garden and natural rock outcroppings.

Completed Concept Plan (unrendered)

Concept Image Board

Reusing Concrete

Many of you might remember this pile...our old concrete that we had sawcut into 24" x 36" pavers to reuse in our backyard renovation. The cost of sawcutting the concrete saved us money on hauling and dumping the old concrete and having to purchase new pavers for the pathways in our garden.

The pile is slowly disappearing, these weigh a lot and with the use of a dollie we are moving them around the yard.
We have trenched where the new pavers go about 3"-4" below finish grade so the pavers sit flat, fill in with compacted soil and then we will go back over the top 1"-2" with crushed rock gravel.

The start of the new garden pathway.