- Neighborhood
- South Park
- Category
- Restoration
- Scope
- Full front yard and entry
- Timeline
- Multi-phase build
What we were working with
Bob was born and raised in this house and moved back into it in his seventies. Somewhere in the previous forty years, the owners replaced the original architectural stucco porch, stairs, walls and pillars with a plain concrete deck to save money. By the time we got there it was sinking, discoloring and pushing water the wrong direction — and every architectural element the house was built with was gone.
What we built
Bob still had the original black-and-white photos, so we could actually see what the place looked like in the 1950s and 60s. We designed a new porch, stair and wall system inspired by those stucco columns and curvy rails, with a modern twist and proper drainage under everything. Then we finished the front yard: privacy hedging, elegant boxwoods, pom-pom boxwood mini trees, a Korean zoysia path running throughout, custom irrigation and low-voltage landscape lighting.
Before & after
Same yard, same vantage point — drag the handle to see the change.
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How it turned out
The house reads the way it did when Bob grew up in it — architecture back where it belonged, on a foundation and drainage system built for the next several decades.
Materials & methods
- Custom stucco columns and rails
- Concrete stairs and porch deck
- Elegant boxwood and pom-pom boxwood
- Korean zoysia grass
- Low-voltage landscape lighting
- Custom irrigation
Trades used on this build
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Design and construction are both in-house, so grading, drainage, masonry, planting and lighting are solved together. Licensed and insured — CSLB License #1159370.
