I know that it's definitely random but figured I'd end up posting about it.....
Wife has been nagging me about how much she hates the current landscaping. Previous owners did a lot of very nice and high end upgrades inside the home but seemed to have completely forgot about the landscaping. They seem to have kept the grass looking nice but all other area of landscaping they let go or didn't care much about. Wife wants it done yesterday so she wanted to hire a local company so she wanted to get a few quotes. Lowest one came back at $7800 and highest one came back at $8200 and that didn't include repairing the sidewalk. I flat out told her "NO" and she was pissed....but understood why.
Current plans are to literally gut everything and start over, only thing staying is a tree, which is overgrown and will be cut back. I'm going to attempt to complete the project in roughly 4 weeks and try to hit a budget of under $3000. The cost still seems crazy high to me but considering my alternative of paying someone else to do it I'm all for it (and I don't have to sleep on the couch) I'll try and post in here on the progress and try to keep track of the man hours.
And here is the proposed planned. There will be 2 smaller straight retaining walls and one that will go around the tree.
