We've gone through countless umbrellas, but we'd really like to up the shade and lighting game with a fixed structure.

Our backyard would look much better covered in stone than the spotty grass/weed cover that just sort of decides when to die, when to grow and when to simply disappear.

No garden for us, but we do want to be able to adorn the border of our pool with some lovely tropical plants.

Because there's almost always *something else* that happens whenever you do home improvement, we'll definitely need a "just in case" fund for when someone invariably breaks something or finds something unacceptable.

Believe it or not, there are a few months out of the year where a fire is downright lovely.

We still need a little grass for the animals to... use, and we'd like it to be a nice little spot of green yard.