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I vividly remember the excitement my family experienced one hot summer day, almost 30 yrs. ago now, when my father so enthusiastically tore down the back porch!! It was an awful avocado green color, it had a tiny 2x3 landing and 10 or so stairs that went steeply down to the ground to your left (I wonder if my parents have any old picture of it??). My Mother had always talked of the patio she wished they had off the back of the house. She didn't want anything fancy, just a place where we could BBQ and host a family dinner while the kids played in the yard and sun set in the background.
Well, as you can see from the recent picture to the right, that patio never quite materialized. My parents have now moved out of the home and were thinking of placing it on the market when Tom and I decided it was an opportunity to purchase the home and move closer to family.
Which bring us back to this 5 foot drop off the back of the house, seems that our lender wont allow us to buy the property and homeowners insurance won't cover the home unless we have stairs that are up to code! I know, CRAZY!!
So here we go, one of our first projects on our soon-to-be-OUR-home :) Tom and I know that we want to do some big renovations to the kitchen (which is on the other side of that door) and install french doors out to a large patio where we can entertain friends and family. So our goal for now is to just build stairs for the interim, and hopefully in a year (or five) we will build our dream patio :) Wish us luck.
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Getting Started
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Couldn't have done it without our helpers!
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Operation Backdoor stairs: Started 0700 Saturday
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End of Day1
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| After (excuse the mess). |
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