Matisyahu's Blog

One of the things I am going to do be doing this year is to make the backyard a lot more hospitable – tidying it up so that during the summer or just on a nice day I can spend time outside. The first part will be cleaning up all the weeds around the place with a whipper-snipper along with cleaning up the two gardens at the side of the house where the weed mat isn’t doing that it is supposed to do. Then after that I an looking at cleaning the house down – it has been over a year since it was last cleaned so I’m wanting to wash it down (walls, windows and guttering). 

Once all the yard has been cleaned up I’m going to head down to Bunnings to see if I can get some giant terracotta pots along with some treees to grow in them – lemon, lime, maybe some with flowers but basically I want plants that are easy to take care of – doesn’t require me to constantly spent the weekends preening and pruning them resulting in it becoming a full time job (I’ve already got one, I don’t need another one).

I do have my shed as well with a broken door which I need to fix up because at the moment it isn’t looking the best so I’ll see if I can get that sorted out just so I can close it and make the backyard a little tidier. I’d like to get some outside seating, maybe an prebuilt canopy that’ll provide some shade as well as however I’m also looking at maybe the alterbative beign something my brother-in-law could build because I’m not really interested in a see through roof given how the plastic deteriorates and discolours over time due to UV exposure.

The back fence however I need to have a look at making it a lot nicer – colour steel is my preference because what it’ll mean is that I don’t have to worry about panting it and it’ll take care of itself over the long term because at the moment I have a wooden fence but some of the planks are rotting along with the fence along the sides of the property that are looking a bit worse for wear. I’m also interested in putting some stairs on the back patio area because at the moment there are no one set which is at the end – maybe putting a wooden deck will make it a little but nicer but then again one thing to consider is long term maintenance.