Finished back yard: paver patio running along the house with a large artificial turf lawn in front, enclosed by white fencing

Groveland, Florida

Paver patio and turf lawn, built for two dogs and two kids

The lawn had lost to the dogs, and the dirt was coming indoors with them.

Pavers: 700 sq ft
Artificial turf: 300 sq ft
Location: Groveland, FL
Scope: Design–build

The brief

The lawn had already lost

Two large dogs had worn the grass back to bare sand. Every trip outside brought some of it back into the house.

The yard was fully fenced and should have been the easiest room in the house to use. Instead nobody wanted to walk on it. With two young kids as well, whatever went in had to survive the dogs, hold a playground, and stop the dirt at the door. The turf carries the playground the owners put up for the kids.

The work

The same yard, walked end to end

The bare ground is what two dogs do to Florida turfgrass. Below the photographs, two clips walk the whole fenced yard end to end, so nothing is cropped out of frame.

Back yard before work: bare sand and patchy grass, a small concrete slab beside the air-conditioning condenser — BeforeThe original slab, and the ground the dogs had cleared.

Completed yard facing the house, paver patio along the rear elevation with turf lawn in front — After700 square feet of paving along the house, 300 of turf in front of it.

BeforeBare sand across the whole yard, the slab by the door the only usable surface.

AfterPatio, turf, and a paver walkway down the side passage past the condenser.

Materials

What went in

Paver patio700 sq ft
Artificial turf300 sq ft

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