It's been a while since the last update, and in fact i'm behind on even taking pictures. Since September there has been a bunch of progress.

The new stairs got built for our side entrance. The old ones had a rail made out of OSB.

They came and poured all the stamped concrete. If I recall correctly, they poured somewhere around 13 yards of concrete.

The patio is really starting to take shape. The stamped pattern looks great (I think).

Here is the new path on the back side of the house. This area used to be a pretty desolate unfinished weed garden.

Erick and I built new timber rails. Ended up taking us a pretty long time to build, but the finished product is great. Here we are test fitting one of the sections to make sure it's the right size (no, we didn't use bungees in the final assembly). 

 

The fire pit was the next major element to be finished. Brick fire pit, about 4' in diameter. We had them put holes in the lowest run of bricks to allow for air flow and light to escape. It looks pretty cool when there is a fire in there at night. The masons also did the stone treatment around the base of the columns to match the front.

The landscapers came in and installed our water feature. I love the way they integrated it with the rock wall. The design is to be pond-less, so we have since lowered the water level so there is just a small bit of water above the rocks.

Here is a shot of the completed fire place. Stamped concrete is obviously in place, the masons did stone around it. Of course this was done in November, but the final piece of work - screwing the switch in - just happened last week!

Ahh... the snow of this winter. You can see a bunch of the rail sections (one still isn't complete in this picture).

I'll try to take some more pictures this weekend to capture where we are at today.