We’ve found great backyard inspiration ideas at an unlikely South Austin source: Home Slice Pizza’s back patio area! Learn more about their simple ideas so you can make a hip neighborhood hangout in your own backyard. More after the jump!
Featuring intimate, flexible and varied seating areas, Homeslice’s back patio can accommodate any guest’s mood. We love the different types of furniture guests can use: simple wooden chairs with lightweight aluminum side tables, large wooden picnic tables and even a wooden deck guests can use as seating.
White lights softly illuminate the whole area at night, and nice details like old tomato sauce cans for ashtrays bring a bit of whimsy to the space. Our favorite part: the large rusted iron planters used as dividers between the patio area and the parking lot. Even though there’s a parking lot near the patio area, these planters really help divide the space and give it a private feeling.
In Austin and want to grab a slice and hangout yourself? Home Slice Pizza is located at 1415 South Congress Avenue.
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Comments (8)
Wow, I miss Austin.
I live in the LA area now and the cool, laid back outdoor places that are so common in Austin don't really exist here. People are so busy posing they forget to have fun when they're out.
Home Slice is the best! OMG i love them. Thanks, now I'm craving a pizza and a pitcher.... ; )
There are lots of bars with outdoor patios here in Chicago, but not many that are quite as large. This actually reminds me of the outdoor/backyard patio a the Bell's Brewery Eccentric Cafe in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Cute patio. I like the zero-scaping.
Re: above comment, pshaw. C'mon, CA, stop hating on LA. LA is not Hollywood. There's a difference. If you don't like where you live, move somewhere else. Please take your bad attitude with you.
FYI: little ribbons... it's xeriscaping. 'zero-scaping' gives the impression of little though/effort/result and that's just not the case. i live in austin and i have xeriscaped my whole front yard. so during this horribly dry summer all my neighbors' lawns have turned to straw while mine still looks crisp, the plants are green and i've yet to put the sprinkler out.
Thanks, Viva. You're totally right, the little succulents and the sporadic punch of greens do make this xeriscaping. Zero-scaping is not a value judgment or used to infer lack of effort, though. It is legitimate terminology for desert landscaping using only gravel or rock or what have you. I drive through Nevada with some frequency and see it done really beautifully at times (patterns of different colored stones, often with sculptural elements), so I mean no suggestion of laziness.
People do so much with rusted metal in Austin, it's amazing
I've been to Homeslice too many times to just now be noticing their back patio. Hmmm maybe I'll check it out tomorrow :)