You and the family have enjoyed that old wood patio in back of your Elkhorn home for a few years now. It looked great when you first had it installed. Today, however, it’s looking a bit shabby. In fact, it’s past the point where slopping on some stain will help. You could have avoided that predictable end where wood begins …
The rainfalls in Marengo this year are not comparable to a monsoon in Bangladesh but they are still significant. More than that, they have the potential to drain your bank account dealing with their soggy repercussions. After all, where’s all that water going to go? The rain water may collect in pools in your Marengo yard. It may drown precious …
As darkness settled over McHenry on a pleasant summer night, you and your guests are sitting indoors thinking how nice to sit outside on an evening such as this. After all, you have that wonderful brick paver patio, why not use it? The answer to that question is you never added landscape lighting to your McHenry backyard and brick paver …
A couple years ago, you made a wise decision and added a brick pavers patio to your backyard. You’ve since spent hours and hours enjoying your brick pavers patio – barbeques in the afternoon, dinner parties at night or just relaxing in an ideal setting. You remember considering a wood or concrete patio but your neighbor here in Algonquin talked …
One summer night this year, you’ll look out the back window and see a glow from beyond the trees where your Crystal Lake neighbor is entertaining on his brick paver patio. You’ll hear the laughter and recognize the comfort and relaxation the lighting brings to brick pavers patio in someone else’s yard. And then there’s your brick pavers patio, hiding …
After enduring a McHenry winter such as this, you should reward yourself. But how? A glance out the back window where last year’s lawn was transformed by approximately six-feet of now-melting snow to form a spongy potential mud pit may present an idea. A patio would set that area off just right, wouldn’t it? Of course, you don’t want just …
As the snow finally melts, and this endless Midwest winter finally comes to an end, some will step into their backyards only to discover their shoes sinking into mud. Others, in Northern Illinois, will bring out the patio furniture and recline on their patio of brick pavers. From afar, brick pavers are a luxury. Up close, they’re an affordable and …
This Woodstock winter begs for a brick paver patio solution this spring When the snow in Woodstock finally melts, many residents will find themselves with backyard mud pits where they expected to find their lawns. They can spread some grass seed and wait for the grass to grow. Of course, that will take a while and they won’t be able …
