The next big project

One good thing about being home rather than working 40 hours a week is that it has afforded us the time to get some lingering home projects done. So far we've had our leaky kitchen sink replaced, the dry rot facia boards in the front of our house replaced, our front door fixed (complete with door handle that was falling off) and most recently our tub re-calked. My husband proudly installed the shower grab bars himself!

The next project we have up is a big exciting one. We're getting cement work done to form a ramp to our front door. Right now the lip to our front door is 3 inches. Even my six wheel tank of a chair "Dory" can't take that on. We also have a useless flower bed taking up space making the walkway to our door tight for a chair. 

Two lips into the front door.

We like to use our tiny front patio for coffee when the weather is nice and it would be fun to expand that out to make it larger. This would helpfully cut down on some of our garden size and hopefully make it more manageable too. 

Then the driveway will be expanded to better fit both our new wheelchair van and our Kia Soul. We have a useless little weed patch that takes up a good portion that will be cemented over giving us more space. 

Weed patch taking up driveway space.

Not for long weeds!

All those cracks will get patched too.

Thanks California earthquakes.

Here's the wonky flower patch with old bricks. 

You can see the tiny patio too. 

I'm hoping to make ALL of this cement.

Now that we took on the wheelchair van payments I do have to be very careful with our projects. After the cement our last big one will be our fence. It's literally falling down on one side and patched all over on the other. Considering we live between an in-home daycare center and a bunch of college kids (neither were there when we bought our house) a good, tall fence is very important to my mental health. Especially being home as much as I am. Anything we can do to cut down the noise is a medical necessity. Heck! I should be able to write it off on my taxes!!!