Before pictures:

Side wall construction:

Back wall construction:

Patio removal and rain:

Sidewalk and patio preperation and other landscaping:

Installing east sidewalk and other landscaping:

Video of smoothing sand: click here

Video of installing border and full stones: click here

Installing back sidewalk and other landscaping:

Installing patio and other landscaping:

Video 1 of smoothing sand: click here

Video 2 of smoothing sand: click here

Video of installing border and full stones: click here

Installing lamp post, and final landscaping:

Following February - trimming hollies and cleaning back yard:

New patio furniture:

Following fall - fixing front yard, killing weeds and planting grass: