San Jose · Complete backyard design
Under the big tree
A complete backyard design created for outdoor living and entertaining, with covered spaces for cooking and dining and an open lawn for play.
- Location
- San Jose, California
- Scope
- Complete backyard design
- Designed for
- Cooking, dining, play on the lawn
- Design
- Gnuchev & Partners
The brief
The yard had good bones: mature shade trees and tall hedges that keep it private. What it lacked was a reason to be out there. The owners wanted outdoor rooms that felt intentional and were simple to maintain.
The design keeps the trees and the screening, and gives the yard covered places to cook and to eat, a paver terrace for gatherings and a lawn left open for play.
Keep the trees, add a reason to be outside.
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