A Practice Accounting Project

I am working on an improvement project in the front. There is a previous post showing the before and after of the first part of the project. It is walk way between the front steps and the car parking area. It includes a low retaining wall which creates a planting bed behind it. The wall is lined with border grass and the border grass has a brick border in front of it. Then the gravel path with a brick border on the outside.
Now I have to carry it through on the other side of the steps. It is a short run. I detail the work in my other blog, The Argenta Gardener which is at: http://www.bnbsgarden.blogspot.com/. In this blog I put this same project out there in economic terms in the way it relates to the value and improvements to the house. So I am going to put together some kind of documentation which I can develop into a template for future work. In this way I will grow into doing more and better work which will add monetary value in direct proportion.
Here is the starting picture....

The completed project is seen on the other side of the walk. This all begins like the home budget process...I will just start to gather up the transactions and sort them into categories by date and time. As the collect I can then add them up.