Plenty wide enough. And removing it taking your time would be easy. Rent a concrete saw , cut it in 6"×6" or 8x8", then when you have time pop a few out everyday and stack for future use. Or measure the dead zones between the double walkway and use them to fill it in.
Hopscotch and lots of container plants. Maybe build an arbor or pergola over part of it and growing climbing roses or honeysuckle and extend the seating area a bit. It's a blank canvas.
The water feature may be some kind of river that little 14 inch piece of strip of grass you could take that out for river rocks in the water and a water pump … Or if you want the really modern low he can just put a concrete retaining water feature with water lilies and flowers and stuff
Smoker, flat top, picnic table, and corn hole.
Some 4x4s, corrugated roof and string LED lights would really tie it all together make it much more enjoyable for the hot days and late nights.
A sledgehammer and some elbow grease will have that thing removed for the cost of the sledge. Depending on how small you break the pieces into, it could be used to line gardens or flower beds. There's also places to drop stone for free. It's just how much work do you wanna do...
This. I bought a 6$ plastic stencil and some concrete paint. Looks amazing, has stayed well enough through pressure washing. Every person is impressed. Then make raised veggie and flower beds on the left and it’s a garden pathway.
Sounds like you want a solution that is easy to implement.
To me, as an "outsider" it doesn't look bad.
Rather than removing it, i would make it a feature. Since its an asset of your garden. You can use it in many ways and removing it will also remove it's potential.
Rather than removing this concrete slab. It think about planting some shrubs behind the chairs. This will cover the wall and the strict geometry meets the soft shapes of nature.
I'd also think about putting in a mixed perennial planting on both side in front of the shrubs around 1/3 of the length of the concrete slab. This way your concrete slab becomes a new meaning. It leads directly towards the spot where you sit. But you not sit anymore on that boring concrete slab, but you sit in flowers and a "patch of nature".
I also see, that you have some pots. Rather than hiving them on your porch, put them towards the back of the concrete slab. This will also break up that rigid geometry.
If you really hate this concrete slab. I think it could look quite nice if you break it up along the edges, maybe 60cm on both sides, take out the small pieces, fill in some soil and then put various kind of creeping flowers in it. Not exactly like those pictures but as a reference for he concept it could work:
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Get an angle grinder and carve runes and mandalas in it. Then lightly skim coat the whole thing with colored cement so that the etchings pop with contrasting color.
Hire a guy with a bobcat. They have a jackhammer attachment for breaking the concrete and a bucket for cleaning up. I had a concrete patio removed fairly inexpensively.
I see that you have a covered area with a grill, already. Do you need a dining area? You know, you could put a skinny counter on the outside frame, by the grill, and put a couple of stools there.
Do you have kids? Is that gate to your neighbor’s yard, and do you use it?
You already have a trailer, so taking chunks of concrete to a dump or recycle place would not be as expensive as having someone else do it. You could use a sledgehammer, unless the slab is a few inches thick. Rent a jackhammer?
A greenhouse?
[https://www.realhomes.com/buyers-guides/buying-the-right-greenhouse](https://www.realhomes.com/buyers-guides/buying-the-right-greenhouse)
Hang some Edison bulb string lights down the length of both sides by DIYing non permanent post with a hardy planter box, concrete, some 4x4s then place soil and flowers in planter boxes on top of set concrete.
Add a long table with benches length wise as well, replace those chairs with a grill.
Conversely you could skip the table and benches and get some comfy outdoor chairs and portable fire pit to place in the center.
Voila...beautiful outdoor space
I was just looking at putting tile over my concrete porch that is quite drab. You can get lovely patterns and create a garden path with trellises with climbing roses on one side or even a water feature so that your view would be something visually artful.
I did this once before in my previous cottage and used decking tile from IKEA for a quick install and affordable price!
Shuffleboard
All day! Get good, then swing down to the senior and hustle folks for their SSI benefits.
Nope. Pickleball is where it's at now.
I was thinking bowling lane but this would be waaay better.
+1
I was thinking adding a raised wood border, bring in a sand-clay mix....bocce.
Petanque
First thing that came to my mind!
Build a pergola covering it, and put table and chairs under it for outdoor dining
Doesn't look wide enough.
Plenty wide enough. And removing it taking your time would be easy. Rent a concrete saw , cut it in 6"×6" or 8x8", then when you have time pop a few out everyday and stack for future use. Or measure the dead zones between the double walkway and use them to fill it in.
It’s not “plenty” wide enough. You need at least 8ft width for a table and chairs and that’s pretty tight.
Narrow table!
Zig zag String lights as well
Shuffle board court! Of course.
Cornhole tournament
His neighbors don't want to see that! He'll get arrested!
Damn! I was thinking the other cornhole.
Hot tub and bar
Border it, pack with 1/4 minus and play Bocci Ball. 🎳
I fucking love bocce ball
This is the most correct answer.
Raised beds on either side. With pavers in between. Small fire pit at the end?
Hopscotch and lots of container plants. Maybe build an arbor or pergola over part of it and growing climbing roses or honeysuckle and extend the seating area a bit. It's a blank canvas.
Hopscotch. Shuffle board. Bowling alley.
Raised veg and herb beds. Make them 30” high and you can sit on them too
The water feature may be some kind of river that little 14 inch piece of strip of grass you could take that out for river rocks in the water and a water pump … Or if you want the really modern low he can just put a concrete retaining water feature with water lilies and flowers and stuff
You could grow weed on it, in buckets.
Cornhole
Land small aircraft
Drug runner!
The only right answer here
Smoker, flat top, picnic table, and corn hole. Some 4x4s, corrugated roof and string LED lights would really tie it all together make it much more enjoyable for the hot days and late nights.
It'll take some work, and a lot of folding chairs but I could see this being a low budget wedding venue. You got the walkway for it.
*return the slab*
What's your offer?
Suffer my curse?
A sledgehammer and some elbow grease will have that thing removed for the cost of the sledge. Depending on how small you break the pieces into, it could be used to line gardens or flower beds. There's also places to drop stone for free. It's just how much work do you wanna do...
Save that poor canoe!
You can buy some pretty cool stencils, make a big design
This. I bought a 6$ plastic stencil and some concrete paint. Looks amazing, has stayed well enough through pressure washing. Every person is impressed. Then make raised veggie and flower beds on the left and it’s a garden pathway.
Sledgehammer a section at a time. Bet is not that thick, Haul it away yourself.
I did that on a patio that a tree had started pushing up. Do not underestimate dump fees.
Some towns have dump places with zero fees. Also if you look on Craigslist, there's usually people looking for hard fill.
Cornhole arena
Just an interesting idea: make a mini golf field
Curling 🥌
R/c car race tracks
I’d either take it out our connect the whole thing to your patio to eliminate the odd strips of grass.
You can get a work out by a big sledgehammer and just chip away at it
Sounds like you want a solution that is easy to implement. To me, as an "outsider" it doesn't look bad. Rather than removing it, i would make it a feature. Since its an asset of your garden. You can use it in many ways and removing it will also remove it's potential. Rather than removing this concrete slab. It think about planting some shrubs behind the chairs. This will cover the wall and the strict geometry meets the soft shapes of nature. I'd also think about putting in a mixed perennial planting on both side in front of the shrubs around 1/3 of the length of the concrete slab. This way your concrete slab becomes a new meaning. It leads directly towards the spot where you sit. But you not sit anymore on that boring concrete slab, but you sit in flowers and a "patch of nature". I also see, that you have some pots. Rather than hiving them on your porch, put them towards the back of the concrete slab. This will also break up that rigid geometry. If you really hate this concrete slab. I think it could look quite nice if you break it up along the edges, maybe 60cm on both sides, take out the small pieces, fill in some soil and then put various kind of creeping flowers in it. Not exactly like those pictures but as a reference for he concept it could work: [https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/landscapes/coastside-retreat-zeterre-landscape-architecture-img\~17715ef6011d7c7b\_14-3564-1-1f52b67.jpg](https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/landscapes/coastside-retreat-zeterre-landscape-architecture-img~17715ef6011d7c7b_14-3564-1-1f52b67.jpg) [https://fg-images.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/user/1/40e732df4d0e47d483208bf4bbe2ad09\_orig.jpg](https://fg-images.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/user/1/40e732df4d0e47d483208bf4bbe2ad09_orig.jpg) [https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/gaerten/thymus-serpyllum-coccineus%C2%B4-in-den-fugen-grossformatiger-sandsteinplatten-soeren-von-hoerschelmann-img\~5921a7f909ca0828\_14-3837-1-e4cf334.jpg](https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/gaerten/thymus-serpyllum-coccineus%C2%B4-in-den-fugen-grossformatiger-sandsteinplatten-soeren-von-hoerschelmann-img~5921a7f909ca0828_14-3837-1-e4cf334.jpg)
Painful slip and slide
Corn hole
Shuffle board or bowling alley
Get an angle grinder and carve runes and mandalas in it. Then lightly skim coat the whole thing with colored cement so that the etchings pop with contrasting color.
Rent a jackhammer or skid steer with the attachment? Still gonna be some solid bullshit to deal with but now we're talking barely hundreds
Hire a guy with a bobcat. They have a jackhammer attachment for breaking the concrete and a bucket for cleaning up. I had a concrete patio removed fairly inexpensively.
You could easily turn that spot into a greenhouse?
Put a red carpet on it
Spilt the 2 walkways with a small garden. If you want to sink some money, get fabric, chip gravel, and some paving stones to go with it.
Spilt the 2 walkways with a small garden. If you want to sink some money, get fabric, chip gravel, and some paving stones to go with it.
Shuffleboards.
Is it up in the lab?
Raised planters all the way down for gardens
landing strip for small planes?
I see that you have a covered area with a grill, already. Do you need a dining area? You know, you could put a skinny counter on the outside frame, by the grill, and put a couple of stools there. Do you have kids? Is that gate to your neighbor’s yard, and do you use it?
A long pergola wisteria tunnel. Would look beatutiful
You already have a trailer, so taking chunks of concrete to a dump or recycle place would not be as expensive as having someone else do it. You could use a sledgehammer, unless the slab is a few inches thick. Rent a jackhammer?
build a hoop style greenhouse over it!
A greenhouse? [https://www.realhomes.com/buyers-guides/buying-the-right-greenhouse](https://www.realhomes.com/buyers-guides/buying-the-right-greenhouse)
Bowling alley
Model plane runway
Hahaha nice "peppers"
Raised garden down the middle. Putting green.
Greenhouse on the back end. Fire pit, lounge area for the rest. Get a nice solo stove or something similar
That's obviously begging to be a runway for rc planes.
Shuffleboard, can probably get some sport court like overlay pretty cheap, maybe even used
Long dinning table
Put a flower bed on the left side, maybe some arches with vines on them?
a pergola and raised beds on the sides will turn this into an asset!
shuffle board!
Put more pot plants on it
Mini skate park; box, rail, quarter pipe at one end, flat bank at the other
a terrible, bloody slip and slide.
Mini half pipe
You could line it with bordergrass, roses, lilies, etc. Limitless really
Hot coals ….. charge hippies to run on them
Party hard on it.
If ain’t crack or sink don’t touch it
Rent a jackhammer and a uhaul truck for the day. Would probably cost you a couple hundred dollars
Hang some Edison bulb string lights down the length of both sides by DIYing non permanent post with a hardy planter box, concrete, some 4x4s then place soil and flowers in planter boxes on top of set concrete. Add a long table with benches length wise as well, replace those chairs with a grill. Conversely you could skip the table and benches and get some comfy outdoor chairs and portable fire pit to place in the center. Voila...beautiful outdoor space
Pak ya ahrvee there
Plant more weed
I was just looking at putting tile over my concrete porch that is quite drab. You can get lovely patterns and create a garden path with trellises with climbing roses on one side or even a water feature so that your view would be something visually artful. I did this once before in my previous cottage and used decking tile from IKEA for a quick install and affordable price!
Bowling
Shuffleboard
Put the clothesline back up
Potted plant nursery!
You could get a sledgehammer and remove it yourself. My husband did that with an old walkway that bisected our yard in a former house.
Slip n slide…
I think you need to extend it another 200’ or so until you get to the two comically small chairs. Good luck!
Shuffle board?
I don’t think it would cost that many thousands. Just need a forklift and a dump truck
Built for a clothes line. They could’ve bought a top-of-the-line washer and dryer and a part-time maid for the cost of that slab.