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Company’s coming.

We’dTbetter spruce up the place.

Better yet, how about starting over? The impending wedding of Rick and Jacque

Bailey’s daughter motivated the couple to finally renovate their landscape, a

project they’d talked about for years. When the Big Day—and visiting family

members—arrived, an uninspiring rectangular patio had been replaced by an

elegant, multifunctional living space.

The new landscape includes a grillingisland, a potting shed, and multiple

seating and dining spaces, unified by meandering flagstone paving and framed

by colorful flowerbeds. The separate yet connected spaces allow the patio to

accommodate larger crowds, but also offer more intimate settings for those

let-down times. “We have a lot of people over,” says Rick. “Often smaller groups,

but sometimes larger. It works well for all of that.”

O U T D O O R

I M P R O V E M E N T S

W h o : R ick and

Jacq ue Bailey

W h e r e :

B recksville, O hio

B e s t M o v e :

Creating an expanded

outdoor entertaining

area that includes a

grilling island, dining

space, and potting shed

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