Check out our new Website and Blog

Over the Christmas holidays we have been busy building a new website and creating a new blog. If you follow our blog, our new blog address is http://www.austinoutdoorstudio.com/blog/
Our website is now much easier to navigate and is much easier for me to add photos, so you should be seeing many more updates from here on out.

Planters Planters Planters...and a sign

Austin Outdoor Studio sure has been busy building planter after planter. We were hired by Yard House Restaurant to build 21 large Corten steel planters troughs for their new Houston location. They used the planters to line the edge of their outdoor patio. I think all in all it was about 10,000 lbs of steel. I can't wait to get some pictures after they have been planted and the steel patinas.
I also added a couple other shots of some jobs we completed this week. The sign was cut on my CNC plasma machine and is for a good friend of mine's new Yoga Studio, "Sacred Streams"

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I've been waiting for this one!!

Sometimes there are projects that get off to a bad start and are plagued from then on. No matter what you do, no matter how careful you are, things just don't go right. Well this gate has been that way. It started with the first few cuts and drawing that was read wrong. After ordering more steel and building a beautiful gate, we sent it off to get powder coated. On the way back from picking up the gate a strap on the trailer broke and scratched up the paint. So we sandblasted the gate, re-prepped it for paint. Sent if off again, only to have some weird blistering pop up with the paint. I won't get into the rest of the issues but, this gate took way longer than it should have and I have to say "thanks" to the client for his patience. In the end, the gate turned out beautiful. Enjoy the pics!

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Here's a few shots of a little landscaping job we did. The homeowners did a great job of all the stone work and we just added a small touch of steel to tie it all together.

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Hot off the Press

It's been a while since I have actually written on my blog. I have been letting the pictures speak for us. Things have been quite busy for our little shop in South Austin. We have been fortunate for the work and are very grateful for the customers that keep coming back. We are continually amazed at the cool projects our customers let us do in their homes.
With the addition of our cnc plasma cutter, our capabilities have greatly expanded. You'll be seeing a lot of really cool products to be launched real soon.

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Past but not forgotten

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A ton of new pictures...

Hot Rolled Steel Fireplace Hearth, Built in place

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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.

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A fresh coat of lacquer

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Custom Structural Steel bracket,

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

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From 2009 Pics

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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.

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I love the way this corner detail turned out.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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