A residential garden addition and hillside-stabilization plan, developed in response to property and fence-line adjustments.
The design offered two options for upgrading an existing patio. The first extended the existing brick pattern into a new garden-terrace area. The second replaced the brick with a cast-in-place concrete surface for easier maintenance. This option used a lightly brushed finish with a deeply troweled 16-inch grid aligned diagonally with the house. For ornamentation, the centers of about 10 percent of the grid squares were debossed with leaves from an on-site bigleaf maple.
We built the latter patio.
The design also extended the existing a garden terrace onto the newly acquired property. It proposed a safe, level, enclosed lawn for gatherings by extending an existing stone retaining wall and adding a stone sitting wall along the steep slope at the terrace edge.
Bowl-shaped decorative light fixtures made from colored glass curved upward to collect water. Mounted on the stone walls, they served as bird baths by day and area lighting by night.
Because site access was constrained, the cast-in-place concrete patio was mixed in the driveway and hand-wheelbarrowed downhill to the backyard.
CONCRETE PATIO AND STONE WALL
Responsibilities
The work included design, budgeting, contract documents, and patio construction.