 laudon residenceOES | Cedar deck and custom steel railing |  laudon residenceOES | Custom steel railing, clumping bamboo, and shade-tolerant plantings |  laudon residenceOES | Custom steel railing, clumping bamboo, and shade-tolerant plantings |
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 laudon residenceOES | Cedar deck, custom steel railings and planters |  laudon residenceOES | Steel grate catwalk |  laudon residenceOES | Pocket prairie with custom steel grate catwalk |
 laudon residenceOES | Bistro deck with steel-edged Texas basalt and native plants |  laudon residenceOES | Steel edged Texas basalt with native plants, and custom steel planter bench, and planted mulch beds |  laudon residenceOES | Custom planter bench, Texas basalt, and mulch planting beds |
 laudon residenceOES | Steel edged Texas basalt with native plants, sunken fire pit and custom bench |  laudon residenceOES | Grill area with bistro deck, and steel-edged Texas basalt and native plants |  laudon residenceOES | Dry creek bed with river rock, and native plants |
 laudon residenceOES | Custom perforated steel screen for air conditioner |  laudon residenceOES | Custom perforated steel tankless water heater screen |  laudon residenceOES | Before and after |
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laudon residence
february - april 2013
builder: PSW Real Estate
This small backyard has the extremely functional but somewhat unsightly terminus that receives all of the of their condo community's runoff. It is both steeply sloped and a narrow, making it difficult to use. We designed a small deck for a bistro table, a steel grate walkway over a lush urban prairie connecting it to the greater deck space near the back door, and a tejas black patio with a sunken fire pit. The spaces are framed with clumping bamboo, bunch grasses, and drought-tolerant vegetation in planters of varying sizes. In the very back of the yard, what was once a functional drainage outlet is now a lush dry creek bed.