{"id":1251,"date":"2018-02-19T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2018-02-18T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:38:11","slug":"the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/19\/the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We put in a pretty massive wall between us and our neighbors &#8211; at least, that is what it looks like from our side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1252\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8818-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8818-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8818-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8818-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1253\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8728-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8728-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8728-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8728-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because we remove some soil so that our back yard would be walk-out level from the back of our house, we now have a grade change between the two properties.\u00a0 Here is the other side of the above picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1254\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8991-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8991-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8991-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8991-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is still a little soil to be removed there, but as you can see, quite a difference.<\/p>\n<p>We plan on restoring the higher grade in the form of a planter on our side of the wall.\u00a0 Here is an example of what it will look like when that is done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1255\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WallPlanter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WallPlanter.png 802w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WallPlanter-300x199.png 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WallPlanter-768x509.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The point of the wall is for privacy, so that the two houses, and yards, won&#8217;t be looking at each other.\u00a0 Privacy will be further accomplished by hedges along the property lines on both sides of our house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We put in a pretty massive wall between us and our neighbors &#8211; at least, that is what it looks like from our side. Because we remove some soil so that our back yard would be walk-out level from the back of our house, we now have a grade change between the two properties.\u00a0 Here<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/19\/the-wall\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about The wall<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardscape"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}