Landscaping - Part of Every Man's Honeydo List

The weather’s improving; you can go outside without a sweater, so naturally your significant other is busy making the highly anticipated Spring Honeydo List. I personally look forward to receiving it every spring, just as I eagerly await the summer, fall, winter, and weekend honeydo lists. If I’m a really good lad I even get a list during the week, just so I know what to look forward to!

This Honeydo List is a special one. It has deliciously fun items like garage cleaning, attic reorganizing, and invariably, landscape work. I take solace in the fact that there are literally hundreds of thousands of guys out there with similar lists. Now I don’t mind cleaning and reorganizing so much, but sometimes the boss gives me a landscaping project that far exceeds my landscape design skill levels.



Here’s a sample:
-Enlarge deck so it wraps around the house
-Put 4 ft. high earthen berm in middle of backyard, place pretty trees on top
-Make kids’ playground larger – wasps need more sand

Yes dear, I love you too.

It’s not the physical labor, or the actual construction that daunts me, it’s the design. I want something that’ll look great, and last a long time, and before I shovel one ounce of sand I want to see what it will look like. Not being a talented artist or architect, I turned to Landscape Design software, and I haven’t been disappointed. I’ve even had fun. You heard it right: I had fun with Landscape Design software.

I’ve been using Realtime Landscaping PLUS, from IDEA Spectrum, and it’s nice. No, it’s not nice, it’s beautiful! Everything’s done in 3D, and the model quality makes it feel like you’re in a video game environment – something that appeals to me, as I do love video games.

So I’ve a tasty treat for all you TopTen Blog readers: not one, but TWO clips I made with Realtime Landscaping PLUS, showing what I was able to accomplish in about an hour’s work. The first clip is a rough approximation of my house and its yard in its present state. Clip two shows what I can do with this great piece of software from IDEA Spectrum. Remember, this took me about an hour to do, and most of that time was spent deciding the colors I wanted for my wooden deck, lawn chairs, and pretty trees.

Before using Realtime Landscaping PLUS


After Realtime Landscaping PLUS


So you can see the amount of detail available in Realtime Landscaping PLUS. It’s easy to use, and you don’t even have to go to the store to get it! Download it now from IDEA Spectrum, no excuse to procrastinate!