Potager or Bust... I'm Thinking Bust.

I'd like to buy the things I want with a wink and a smile. Sadly, it will not suffice.

Knowing my potager (Kitchen Garden) will be quite an expenditure, I decided to figure out what the base cost is. My two gardens are 5x12 feet, and 1 foot deep... (I'm guessing here... which doesn't help matters.) The whole potager is surrounded with 16" square pavers, surrounded by pea gravel to keep everything looking tidy. The pavers are $4.37 each and I need (want) 60 of them. 
There's a breakdown below, but I'm just going to have a breakdown right now. I have too many projects I'm passionate about (my flower garden, chicken run, potager, garden shed) and no staff... I mean, no money to do them all at 150% at the same time!  

What I want. $1,160

What I can afford. $75

Potager with NO Bells and Whistles $1,800
Lumber 1,000?
Dirt $600?
Seeds & starts $200?

Potager with SOME Bells and Whistles $1,910
Wood Chips as ground cover $50?
4 24" pavers in center $60?
Lumber $1,000
Dirt $600?
Seeds & starts $200?

Potager with ALL the Bells and Whistles $3,252+ tax and delivery
60 16" pavers $262+tax 
24" paver $60?
30 bags? pea gravel $300? OMFG heavy : (
Weed barrier $30
Lumber $2,000 OMG
Dirt $600?

This is a front-yard potager in Seattle. I "borrowed" the 2008 photo from a garden forum.

American Potager has a new book out on kitchen gardens. The book looks beautiful but it received some unfavorable reviews on Amazon. 
"The design chapter starts off on the wrong foot by discussing a potager garden that was never built. Even worse, it was never built in a large urban space with which few of us will ever have to contend, so I fail to see the point. The second garden design discussed, designed for a small restaurant, also has not been built. The third garden is the author's own, now giving me the uncomfortable feeling that the entire book is a vanity project."

What I want.

What I can afford.

Maybe I'll leave the pavers out and just pea gravel around the raised beds... must go think on this.

**Two minutes Later**

This looks do-able. I have bricks already.

Flagstone

I need to separate my lawn from the garden and I'm thinking Boxwoods will do the trick... but I already have flagstone left over from another project, so that would be easy to use... ponder.