We are very fortunate to have a large lot, but then also have the back lot. The back lot has an old irrigation ditch that has some water running in it now. It is very cold water! We are planning a rather intricate irrigation system and garden to implement once we are actually living here. We are also planning to have a couple beehives.
It all started with a lovely building permit. Our address is 477 Rockbridge Drive!
Sunset looking over the house.
Thankfully, there was a lot of top soil that they were able to keep safe on our back lot. Our neighbor across the street told us that there was hardly any top soil when they built their house so we are pretty pleased about the soil. We are going to let the soil settle for the winter and then spread around the topsoil in the spring.
These are the heavy equipment our builder brought in for all the basement digging and general soil moving.
They are pretty big!
This is the back lot. Everything in the photo is pretty much our lot. It is 0.6 acres. The front lot where the house is located is 0.4 acres. We are planning on having a rather amazing garden. This will also be the future site of the dream shed/garage.
This is the yard behind the garage. Lots of rocks! The plan for these next few weeks will be to take away as many as possible since we can see them easily before the top soil goes back down. One of our neighbors behind us asked if he can have the smaller rocks and the bigger rocks are going to assist with a stream by the Meadow.
This is the south yard and some of the back yard. Once the toil soil is put back on, the average height of foundation showing should be around 16". The far side of the foundation shown is where the french doors from the dining room will come out onto a deck that will have a couple steps going down to the yard.
This is the south edge of the lots. These wires are a possible location for our power transformer and cable/internet hookup. We are thinking to have it all come from the front lot junction box because there would be less trenching and wire needed.
Here is the street with the existing utility hookups. The hill was steeper, but they used the basement soil to fill most of it in. This will eventually have more topsoil, but probably lots of the rocks for the next couple years.
Here is our driveway currently. It sits on the flag portion of our back lot so we can eventually extend the driveway onto the back lot. The mirror image back lot to the north has another 20' of access which eventually when he builds will be a 40' joined driveway space so we have plenty of space to pile the snow in the winter.
This is the garage view from the driveway. The driveway will be 12' wide and there is an additional straight portion coming from the garage that is 12' long so we have space to get into the doors. Most of the big rocks in front of the garage have been moved.
This is the front door entry. There will be a total of 4 steps going up to the front door. Hopefully in two 2 step platforms for a more comfortable entry.
The whole front yard. That topsoil pile in the back is pretty big!
This is from the south corner of the lot by the road.
The whole front yard from the road.
This shows the utility boxes and our driveway. The driveway will be moved a few feet closer to the utilities.
A view down the driveway and of the garage.
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