now you see it - now you don't

Good thing we aren't sleepwalkers because we have now lost our back porch and back stairs and it's a long way down.

While waiting to the new porch and stairs to be built, we've spent some time figuring out whether to pour concrete under the stairs or gravel instead. The plan is to replace all our back garden paths with something better at some future time, as we can't afford to do it this year, so we are having to think about the best option for the base of the stairs as it will join those future unknown paths. We also have to think about how we will use the space under the stairs which is potentially precious storage for such things as firewood and large plant pots that are empty during the winter.

A friend whipped together 2 little visuals to help us decide - it's the sort of thing that took him 5 minutes and would take me 3 and a half days! It made our stairs look disgusting but it did help.

Any guesses which one we chose?