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This Austin, Texas, couple loved their home, but they did not love that it had no covered parking or place to safely store electric bikes, throw an outdoor party or let their French bulldog, Cash, roam free. They embarked on a long design journey with Dick Clark + Associates and Stephen Thomas Construction to add style and functionality to their steeply sloped front yard.
“This project required a variance, and the permitting process was long and challenging,” project manager Bob Perez says. “From the time the architects started the design to the time we finished building was about two years.” Luckily, the couple’s patience paid off. They now have a two-car carport, a protected bike garage, a reworked entry and an expanded patio that includes an outdoor kitchen, a covered area and full smart home technology outdoors for fans, heaters, lighting, speakers and misters.
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With their first baby on the way, this Toronto couple wanted their yard to be family-friendly, with a grassy area for play. They also wanted an outdoor dining space and a pergola-covered lounge. Enter Alex Zalewski, a landscape designer and the co-owner of Infinite Possibilites Landscape Installation & Design. He worked with the homeowners on designing and installing these elements as part of a phased landscape design.
In addition, Zalewski added trees and shrubs for privacy and beauty, and redesigned the side yard. He kept easy maintenance at the front of his mind throughout the process. He also considered the master plan he’d drafted for the entire property. Later phases will include adding an outdoor kitchen and reworking the front yard.
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After: The new full-range, natural cleft bluestone patio is 500 square feet, including the portion under the pavilion. This material plays nicely off the blue siding on the house. The new pavilion is 19 by 15 feet, providing 285 square feet of covered space for an outdoor kitchen and dining area.
“The architecture of the house was quite traditional and it was important to us to make the landscape cohesive with the house,” Algozzini says. “There are multiple ways you can install a gaucho grill, and it can be a standalone piece. But after looking through images with my clients to see what they liked, I proposed we move it into a fireplace that would be integrated into a pavilion.”
Gaucho, or Argentine-style, grills use traditional cooking methods to produce foods with rich, smoky flavor. Typically, meat is grilled on a grate over wood embers or charcoal. The signature wheel or crank allows you to adjust the grate’s height to control cooking temperature and time.
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After: “To achieve the space and the kind of openness they wanted, we used steel for the new deck structure,” Shoup says. The deck required only two posts, which were welded to the beams for an elegant and simple design. “This structure is a movement-resistant frame, because this is earthquake country,” Shoup says. The new deck measures 26½ by 14 feet, and the covered patio measures 20 by 16 feet.
Look closely at the left side of this photo, where the original siding meets the new fiber cement siding, to see a thoughtful detail. The new siding juts out from the rest of the facade. “This added a thickness and clearly defined the entry and the area underneath the deck,” Shoup says.
This is an “upside-down” house, meaning the bedrooms are on the ground floor, and the living room opens onto the deck. The deck also can be viewed from the kitchen, as the floor plan is open. It’s easy for the homeowners to pour themselves a cup of coffee in the morning and then enjoy it outside among the tree canopies.
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Himschoot planted the beds with a mix of perennials, grasses and shrubs for nearly year-round color and interest. Perennials include ‘Summer Beauty’ allium (Allium ‘Summer Beauty’, USDA zones 4 to 9; find your zone), ‘Visions’ astilbe (Astilbe chinensis ‘Visions’, zones 4 to 9), ‘Walker’s Low’ catmint (Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low’, zones 3 to 8), ‘Little Spire’ Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’, zones 5 to 9), ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ hosta (Hosta ‘Blue Mouse Ears’, zones 3 to 9) and ‘Petite Delight’ beebalm (Monarda didyma ‘Petite Delight’, zones 3 to 9).
The grasses are golden Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’, zones 4 to 9), ‘Ice Dance’ Japanese sedge (Carex morrowii ‘Ice Dance’, zones 5 to 9) and ‘Bowles Golden’ sedge (Carex elata ‘Aurea’, zones 5 to 9).
The shrubs include ‘Ruby Slippers’ oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Ruby Slippers’, zones 5 to 9), dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii, zones 5 to 8), ‘Blue Star’ juniper (Juniperus squamata ‘Blue Star’, zones 4 to 8) and ‘Little Devil’ ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Donna May’, zones 3 to 7).