Lattice Privacy Screen

Our house is very close to our next door neighbour's house on one side. (about 2 m). Both of our back doors are at the same place and we are sitting up higher and have a full view of their backyard and even the next one over. We both felt that we needed more privacy, so we put forward our plan and they agreed to help pay for it, which was very generous! Karl and I designed it to fit in with the style of our older home. We've planted climbing greenery with white flowers, which should cover it within a year or two. Future plans are to 'cobblestone' the entire back area as our back patio.

Treehouse

Over January (in our summer holidays), Karl designed and built a tree house for Theo and his friends to play in. It is so well built that Emma and her friends can fit (and they do!) and Karl, Theo and I had lunch up there one day. It has a pulley system to bring up supplies, and a swing and ladder and little lunch table. Theo loves it and his friends do as well.
It is like a deck in the trees. Karl brought back Bhutanese prayer flags to protect and decorate it. Lovely!