01 · The challenge
An outdoor room on a sandy lot has to be built from the ground up in the literal sense. Anything set on unprepared ground moves, and it moves unevenly.
Outdoor living · 2026
Patio base build
A curved concrete border poured, backfilled with stone and posts set. The part of an outdoor room nobody photographs.
Category
Outdoor living
Scope
3 line items
Services
Outdoor living, Concrete
Scope of work
- Curved border formed and poured
- Compacted stone base
- Structural posts set
02 · What we did
A poured border to hold the shape and retain the base, stone brought in and compacted inside it, and posts set to line and plumb before any structure went up.
03 · The result
A stable, drained base with the footprint already defined. Everything above this is the easy part.
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Backyard turf build
A bare, rutted side yard graded, based, bordered and laid in turf. Poolside, and flat enough to putt on.