Beautiful
The colors here are what I like (the plants are a bit unruly for my taste). It's very similar to the yard at our old house. I wish our pool was a brighter blue. I've always loved that sandstone even though it's completely different than the rest of our house and I usually prefer grey. The different green and red colors complete the look.
This is the backyard of our old house (not our furniture). I loved how inviting it always looked - especially the colors. The bright blue in the pool was from a cheap vinyl lining, but I loved it. The sandstone paving was amazing to walk on - always felt warm and gritty rather than slick and dirty like our concrete. I should have hated the color (I usually strongly prefer cool colors and greys), but I absolutely loved it. The amount of green in the yard doesn't quite come across in this photo, but all that grass and planting in the background dominated the yard overall and looked great.
We have an old well in that side yard area that we were going to get rid of since it's not really enough water to reliably water the yard. How hard would it be to put in an old fashioned manual pump and little area like this, that the kids could play with?
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