Oldham, overhauled the unkept space and installed a fire pit to go with a modern seating area and colourful LED lighting. He taught himself how to lay flags, lay bricks and blocks, how to render and more with the help of YouTube.
Speaking to the M.E.N, Shaun said: “We always wanted to landscape our garden since we moved in, so we saved up £5,000, thinking this would be enough. “We then got a few quotes which came in around the £9,000 mark - and this was for just some flagging and some levelling of the garden.
Obviously this was more than we could afford so instead I went on YouTube and started to learn how to do it myself.”The 28-year-old also discovered a Facebook group called ‘Modern Landscaping 2020’.
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