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The Madness Of House Projects Continues... About 15 years ago or so, some friends and I tore down a shed that was attached to our one car garage. The shed was beat and the floor was caving out from under it, so we took chainsaws to it, busted her down and put it in a dumpster all in an afternoon. Because my wife and I are YFP, yard fail people, the resulting square footage sat unused like that for the next 15 years. Oh, I did build  a terraced garden out of some of it about 8 years ago, but the bulk of the area became our RGWB, rock garden weed bed. Every summer we'd let the weeds grow until I couldn't stand it any more and then I'd spend an hour doing a job I hated more than anything. Weeding. Weed barrier prep Over those same 15 years we talked about a few possibilities for the area. We basically came up with about three options. 1. Break out the surrounding concrete frame and just seed the area. 2. Build an expensive deck on the area. Having helped a frien...