Doing My Own Home Makeover

Here's one of the more successful makeovers I have done with the help of my mother. The interiors of our house are still "evolving" (read: undergoing one re-arrangment after another) so let's start with the garden.

BEFORE:

AFTER:
See what a couple of bags of cement, sand and gravel can do? I wanted paving blocks but it's just not something we can afford right now even if we install it ourselves.

These garden chairs I bought second-hand for almost a song. They're cast-iron and held together by screws. Definitely classier than the "usual" garden chairs being sold nowadays.
I trimmed some of the plants, re-arranged the potted ones and made use of the pieces of "tinibag na semento" from a previous project to give a few of the pots some height and cover the exposed soil as well. White or colored pebbles would have been the desirable option, but again our budget cannot accommodate it.

Tadaaaahhh!!! Our garden looks so much nicer now than in the "before" pic, doesn't it?