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The Great Wall of….

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:25:36 +0000

We recently worked with San Isidro Sustainable Designs, to build a 150′ long, 2′ tall retaining wall. We also built a several sections of a steel slat fence and a couple of gates for them. They are still finishing up the planting and landscaping, but I thought I’d posts some pics.

A ton of new pictures…

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:13:33 +0000

Hot Rolled Steel Fireplace Hearth, Built in place

From 2009 Pics

Hot Rolled Steel Divider Panel, This was built from one sheet of 1/4″ steel so the heat patterns of the steel would travel through the panel.

From 2009 Pics

A fresh coat of lacquer

From 2009 Pics

Custom Structural Steel bracket,

From 2009 Pics

Can you believe this backyard is only 9′ deep? The transformation was incredible. The poly gal fence conceals the once over bearing AC units.

From 2009 Pics

This railing was built using 1/2″ x 2″ solid steel bar for the posts and 1/2″ round bar for the horizontal runners. It was capped in cedar.

From 2009 Pics

I love the way this corner detail turned out.

From 2009 Pics

We collaborated with Land Interactive on this project. They have fantastic vision. We installed the steel for them.

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This is the same project as above. We terraced the courtyard with 1/4″ steel. We formed 9′ boxes that work their way down the property.

From 2009 Pics

These planters were built for the “Mr Chow” restaurant that is at the new W Hotel in Miami Florida. We used Corten steel and added heavy duty casters so they could be rolled in during the severe weather. This is what 5000 lbs of steel looks like.

From 2009 Pics

We are almost done with this gate. It will be fitted with frosted acrylic panels and our custom stainless lever latch.

From 2009 Pics

This Ipe planter was built reclaimed Ipe. The metal frame was powder coated bronze.

From 2009 Pics

We love this house. If you look at our “landscape” and “Doors” section you’ll see the rest of it. The “Coolest Screen Door Ever” resides here. This gate was powdercoated silver and built to last out of 10 ga 2″x3″ tubing. The panels are frosted acrylic.

From 2009 Pics

We designed this latch, because frankly there just aren’t any cool off the shelf latches out there. This stainless latch automatically latches when shut. It rides on internal bronze bushings and is spring loaded.

From 2009 Pics

We worked with a local Austinite who wanted to transform his lot into an organic farm with 4′x4′ square foot garden table. So we built 56 of them. It was a lot of work, but it turned out real cool.

From 2009 Pics

The steel frame was simply painted and the wood is Angel’s heart

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From 2009 Pics

We built this steel privacy fence to mimic the divide panel on the inside of the house.

From 2009 Pics

This automated driveway gate was a calaboration with the client. She came over and drew the gate on several pieces of steel and we cut it out. We actually welded a bead on the entire edge of the tree to give it depth. The branches were banded with hand hammered steel flat bar. The entire gate was was left natural to patina and the branches were hand painted by the home owner.

From 2009 Pics

Railing and Steel Edging

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:05:23 +0000

Here are some of the finished pictures of the railing I posted earlier.

From Custom Work

Just some more pictures

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:52:44 +0000

Just thought I’d throw in some pics of some of the jobs I have been working on lately in addition to all the steel planters I am building.

I had to include some pictures my son, Parker.

Some Pics of our Custom Work

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:40:44 +0000

I thought I’d show some examples of the custom work I have been doing over the last month or so. The first project is a steel and Ipe door. This is a tremendous home which lacked a formal entrance from the street. The owners wanted something that would give them privacy, continue the theme of the house, but bring some warm tones to the steel and cinder block construction. After a couple renderings and material samples we came up with this design that really finished off the house.

Customer Testimonial
“We just wanted to thank you again for all of your design creativity, superb craftsmanship and professionalism with the creation of our new Ipe/steel exterior door!

To say we are thrilled with the results is an understatement: we came to you with a very vague concept and you returned a masterpiece. We couldn’t have envisioned a more perfect complement to our existing entryway. The door is the focal-point of the front exterior and we couldn’t be HAPPIER!

Here’s to nothing but success with all of your future Outdoor Design endeavors!

We look forward to working with you again soon,
Kim & Eric”

The next project was a result of a terrible situation. A drunk driver veered off the road and ran into their tree on the corner of this house. The driver ended up ok, but destroyed the railroad ties and permanently damaged the tree. Our major design constrain with this project was the 18″ tall square of soil and roots left behind. The soil could not be excavated because of the root system. The main goal was to make the raised square in their yard look like it wasn’t a raised sqaure in their yard. To do this, I brought in several levels to draw the eye down and created planters at two of the corners to break up the space. The project turned out great and transformed the once mundane corner into a showpiece.