 krajcer residenceOES | Front yard steel retaining wall, turf grass, and planting beds |  krajcer residenceOES | Front yard with lighting, steel retaining wall, limestone pavers, and native plants in Texas basalt |  krajcer residenceOES | Raised planter with palo verde tree and bunch grasses |
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 krajcer residenceOES | Landscape lighting on palo verde ornamental tree |  krajcer residenceOES | Pergola with native plants in Texas basalt, and steel edged grass |  krajcer residenceOES | Steel and cedar pergola, and native plants in Texas basalt |
 krajcer residenceOES | Custom steel and cedar pergola, steel planting boxes with Texas basalt and native plants |  krajcer residenceOES | Native plants in steel edged Texas basalt |  krajcer residenceOES | Backyard with lighting, and steel and cedar custom pergola |
 krajcer residenceOES | Custom steel and cedar pergola details, with native plants |  krajcer residenceOES | Steel planters and limestone step |  krajcer residenceOES | Steel edged grass with native plants in Texas basalt |
 krajcer residenceOES | Limestone pavers on Texas basalt and custom made swing structure for hammock |  krajcer residenceOES | Boardform concrete walls with limestone pavers on Texas basalt with bamboo, and custom made swing structure |  krajcer residenceOES | Lighting of boardform concrete walls and limestone pavers |
 krajcer residenceOES | Limestone pavers, and native plants in Texas basalt |  krajcer residenceOES | Lighting of limestone pavers and boardform concrete walls with native plants, and custom swing structure |
krajcer residence
july - september 2016
This family had specific design needs and asked us turn this sloping, lawned blank canvas into social, kid-friendly series of spaces. The front yard had quite a bit of grade change, so we strategically leveled planters and lawn with steel retaining walls as well as framed those spaces with plants. The courtyard already had an existing ipe deck, so they needed a shade structure to make it more enjoyable and give a place for vines to grow. The whole family has places to spend time together and play here, and they are screened with a line of clumping bamboo along the fence.
The backyard is more for the parents to get away in a tranquil, lush space. We screened their cars from the master bedroom views with a tall steel planter with more bamboo, retained the earth from neighboring yards with board-form concrete walls to level the space for a leuder patio and hammock chairs, and specified very tall emerald bamboo to further screen from nearby second story windows.