I, too, am a renter; but it's my HOME and my landlord LOVES me; many easy, low-cost cosmetic changes and my yard is the prettiest on the block!

Fabulous job! I like! Sometimes as a renter it does benefit you. A good landlord will appreciate you and want to keep you as a renter. Renters come along everyday, but a GOOD renters are hard to find. Just be mindful of what you invest in the rental.

@sheryl s. gravel, sand etc sold by the ton or half ton. Figure out how big an area you want to do. Go to a stone store that has a scale for the trucks. Dont get this stuff from your local HD or lowes or garden store. They have no way of measuring how much things weigh. Fir example: you can get pond stone at Lowes for $ 30 a bag or you can go to the local stone store I use and get the same thing for $ 6 a bag or 80 a ton. Do your calculations and some research and im sure you can find ...»

That looks amazing! Great job! If you were MY renters, I'd be happy as happy can be!

Very nice..We did something similar a few years ago, with free reclaimed brick. It not only looks great.,but is easy to keep clean. Landlord very happy..

I also like your plantings...

this would be perfect under our deck. I can't see if you used an edger to keep the gravel in place? Very nice job, and I have rented before and sometimes you just have to do what you need to do to be happy where you are.

As a landlord, a tenant like you is GREATLY appreciated and few and far between! Great job and kudos to you for having the initiative and creativity to want to do something to improve your living area! More tenants should follow in your footsteps!

I agree, Landlords are reasonable. When I used to rent, I always did things to improve, my labor free, and subtracted the expense out of the rent and sent receipts with the rent check. I was very lucky with my landlords.

I love it! I wish I had seen this pic last year before I put my patio in, I would have made it like ths instead of the one I put in!

I've always added something wherever I lived rental or not. Now that I have a mortgage I'm still adding plants and moving things around. Good job on the yard.

I love my rubber pavers made from old recycled tires...hadn't thought about putting rock in between the tiles though, thanks alot :)...nice job !!!!

NICE JOB!!!

You've proven great things can be done with small spaces.

What a creative alternative

We're renting our house and I couldn't live with a bare bones yard so we do a wonderful job of gardening and maintenance. He had nothing here before and now has a pond, perennial garden surrounding the pond, flower gardens all over and extending the property by continually mowing overgrown weeds in the field to make a nice big yard. His property was getting smaller and smaller with the minimal mowing that was being done by previous tenants. He thanks us all the time for keeping up the ...»

Jean M, I would like to know more about your "rubber pavers".

Yeah, it wouldn't hurt to ask them, as I'm sure they will be as impressed as we all were with the work. And you would basically be asking them to cover the materials cost since it sounds like you got a sweet deal on the labor. If the landlord is reasonable, they will let you deduct at least some of the materials cost, as they have to know you have increased their property value and potential rent value. Good luck.

We rent our place out. Every time the renter does a project on the place (it had been abandoned for a couple of years when we bought it) we deduct the labor from the rent. There are months no rent is paid. We also pay for the supplies. The value that has been added to the place more than out weighs the loss of rent paid and I know the place is being taken care of. I hope we always have great renters like this.

Wow! You are very fortunate!

Very Nice would love this around my above ground pool.