The outdoor area is quite large (1,040 square meters, including the house) and our heads boiled with million of ideas of whatwe would like to do with it.

I sat at the computer and tried to picture the main work. Thanks to Photoshop it was relatively easy to build "what-if"  pictures of what the place would look like. The beauty of it is that even the non technically minded person could visualise the final product better than any 2D engineering plan. After a few attempts we agreed on this plan.

After agreeing on what it would look like it was hard work for several weekends for the Costas and Teixeiras. The thumbnails below will show you a collection of photos taken during the construction period. With the exception of the concreting all the work was done by us.