Once the rock was removed, we had to dig up the ground where the Paver walkway was going to go. We planned to put the dirt around the base of the house (to build up the foundation). That ended up only taking about 1/3 of the dirt, and we still had as much dirt to get rid of as we had rock! Needless to say, the piles of dirt, rock, and other materials quicly got on my nerves!
My mom was a rockstar and came to help dig for 3 days--the most humid days of the summer, none the less. We couldn't have done it without her--she is so awesome! Here is the trench once it was finally done!
Day One started with filling in the gravel for the base. Jeremy did an awesome job with the equipment...here he is compacting the 6 inches of gravel base.
Then we put a layer of sand down for the bricks to lie in...day one was finally over!
And boy was it a messy one!
Day two was where the fun began! I laid out all of the bricks (except for the ones that needed to be cut) in the Herringbone pattern. My vision was finally starting to come together!
Getting to mallet the bricks into the sand definitely helped to remove my frustrations!
Day Three was all about sawing the bricks. In typical "Steph fashion", I choose the most "sawing intensive" pattern, and made it tougher by adding multiple curves. I marked up the bricks, and Jeremy did the sawing. We made a great teams!
All of the cuts made for such a fabulous pattern!
Nearing the end of day 3....so close to the end!
On Memorial Day, the sand finally when on, the the paver walkway was done! We were so pleased with our work!
Of course, it really just meant that our landscaping project was beginning....
I am most proud of this part of the walkway...planning out the curves, putting everything on an incline, and marking the correct cuts took a bit of work, but was definitley worth it in the end!
By the end of the summer, it was one of many fabulous additions to our house!
