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Decking boards are being installed - now the house immediately looks much more "finished."

The iron rods mark where the oven will go. Today the chimney sweep is also coming by to decide with us how long the oven pipe needs to be. There are actually no regulations for this as long as the oven is not installed inside a house (which we are not doing), but since our neighbors are not exactly friendly, we want to nip any trouble in the bud and would rather get the chimney sweep's blessing right away. If Madame ever complains about smoke smell, we can easily counter on the spot, "arranged with the chimney sweep, so everything’s fine."

And these are the slabs we are using for the paving, mixed with small granite stones (we didn’t want a neatly paved concrete surface, so a bit of "loosening" with small stones in between):

From the kitchen door (around the corner) there will be a wooden terrace again, but here, behind the house, where it is always damp at least in winter, paving is simply better.

Oven?
It would be cool if you could show the property or the development related to it.
Why the cutouts?
Why problems with the neighbors?
Why is your husband grinning so sweetly?
Questions upon questions

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As a "sometimes tin foil hat wearer," I would like to encourage you to discuss again with your husband whether he really wants to have a photo of himself published on the internet (in this forum) in this way. There is now really excellent facial recognition software, and he can be recognized very well even with a simple enlargement. I assume he doesn't have a sick note.

Or are you both already visible with your faces on many social media anyway?

As a "sometimes tin foil hat wearer," I would like to encourage you to discuss once again with your husband whether he really wants to have a photo of himself published on the Internet (in this forum) in this way. Nowadays, there is truly excellent facial recognition software, and he can be recognized very well even with a simple enlargement. I assume he is not exactly on sick leave. Or are you already visible with your faces on many social media platforms anyway?

Addendum: I am sorry for my post, I do not want to be a party pooper.

My husband grins proudly, he helped out and is proud of what we have achieved

The recesses: planting will be done at the house, next to it a path. A perfectly straight path would be simply boring, I want a garden and not a parade ground, hence the "snake line".

I have already extensively discussed our difficulties with the neighbors, whose ugly garage wall can be seen in the pictures, in another thread, so here only briefly: especially the lady is personally offended because we built there where they never expected or wanted it. Until now, there was (by us) a maintained lawn, now there is a house and she is (quote, she revealed this to our landscaper in conversation) "completely at her wit’s end because of the situation".
Because we now live there. And because she unfortunately built her house 3 meters close to the border to the neighboring property. Of course with the conviction that there would forever be a meadow there. And now we built there! Outrage! And when we sit outside and talk, you can hear it. And that is unbearable. We have already had very unpleasant situations there.

Hm, plan, I only have a very vague one:

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The path has round edges there. But our landscaper thought it would make more sense to use the block decking, so now it’s square. The ugly garage wall facing the neighbor will disappear from our view with a wood stack made of Corten steel (we won’t see anything anymore and if the neighbor wants to get to the wall, this is very fast and easy), then a 2m privacy fence towards the nagging neighbor and from the kitchen door, as shown on the plan, a wooden terrace that transitions into the balcony on the street side (which can be seen in my profile picture). We don’t have much garden, so the green islands there must be well planned.
From the balcony a staircase leads down to the front garden. There will be a Corten steel raised bed and space for two parking spots. We have to designate those because the parking spaces under the carport are officially available to my mother. Although we all park there, the bureaucracy wants its right.
In a few years, when no one cares anymore, we’ll see what we do with the space at the bottom right of the plan... Not much is possible anyway, because the trailer will find its place under the balcony, so some kind of driveway must remain. But definitely not a 6m one.

I assume he doesn’t exactly have a sick note.

No, vacation – and otherwise unfortunately short-time work at the moment. So legal. He doesn’t care whether people recognize him there or not. He just doesn’t want to see nude photos of himself.
I blur our craftsmen and you’re not a killjoy if you ask that. You can see us like that because I don’t find anything tragic about it. Although we are hardly active on social media.
Honestly, I was more uneasy about posting pictures of our house here. Because anyone who wants to break in immediately gets a site plan.
A brief conversation with a police officer in our acquaintance circle dispelled these concerns (they come with or without a site plan and usually find what they are looking for very quickly).

The bakehouse on the plan was originally planned to be even larger (3x2m - now 2x1.5m), but the bed by the house wall is smaller. The details usually only become clear when you have it in front of you in reality and carry it out.