First Time Farm'n: Patio Project ~ One year in the making

Its amazing what can happen in a year.... and A LOT of hard work.

Our patio like our back yard was a hot mess as you can see from the pics below.

We spent all of last summer concreting the giant holes and cracks and this year painting with Rustoliums fancy smancy concrete paint. (Same paint we used on the garage.)

The biggest thing I learned from this is concrete SUCKS!!!!

Seriously the hardest work I have ever done in my life.

Secondly.... thin layers of concrete does not hold up through the winter.

(Duh... right?)

Here is what this mess looked like before hand.....

This was early spring 2014

Some concrete done but still work to do....

This is halfway painted with some concrete to complete.

Notice that horrible color?

That was the first color we picked called Graywash, the thought process was that the lighter the color the cooler the ground would stay. While this might be true it was hideous and we hated it so we went a little darker.