The husband-and-wife team of Dr. Morgan Magid and
Mary Alves were looking to add a modest basketball
shooting court to their shallow backyard for their
youngest son, Jared.
"All they wanted," says family friend and
concrete designer Tom Ralston, "was a small extension
to the patio for a basketball hoop. just one hoop and
a net."
For Ralston, of Santa Cruz, Calif.-based -Tom Ralston
Concrete, it sounded like it would be one of his simplest
jobs ever.
"Then Mary started asking me for ideas: "he
says, adding with a chuckle, "Bad idea."
What the Magids ended up with, after a year and a half,
was a three-level, four-season stamped-concrete outdoor
luxury living space featuring three entertainment areas,
four sets of staircases, a cascading waterfall, radiant
heat, outdoor kitchen with barbecue pit, stereo system,
mini-bar, refrigerator, flat-screen television, warming
drawer, two-burner stove and trash compactor. Everything,
in short, but the kitchen sink. |
