NewGrass Landscape & Design has helped bring 1,300 square feet of grassy outdoor entertainment area to an expansive deck that’s four stories above the ground in a custom California beach home designed in the shape of an East Coast lifeguard tower.

“This really has been one of the most interesting projects we’ve been involved in,” says district manager for NewGrass Landscape & Design District, the largest distributor of NewGrass artificial grass.

Designer Steve Lazar conceived his unique home based on images of lifeguard towers he recalled from childhood on the New Jersey coast, according to an article in the online version of The Los Angeles Times.

The front of the home resembles the bow of a double-deck ship, and above that is the fourth-floor tower made from slanted glass walls that are connected by heavy-gauge stainless-steel supports. The tower has sitting and sleeping areas, like a ship’s berth, as the Times described it.

It’s off of that glass-walled tower that Lazar designed a 1,300 entertainment deck that looks out over Hermosa Beach, Reno said.

“Mr. Lazar had several criteria for the material to surface the outdoor fourth-level deck,” Reno said. “It had to be lightweight, obviously. And in keeping with the other materials used in the home’s design, it had to be environmentally friendly. And of course, cost-effectiveness was an issue.”

Lazar had considered stone or tile for the deck before considering synthetic lawn. “NewGrass was a lightweight, cost-effective, recycled alternative to stone or tile that even better, gives Mr. Lazar an outdoor yard where there he doesn’t have any otherwise,” Reno said.

The use of NewGrass in the unique home again shows how NewGrass can meet challenging design and landscaping needs, while being an eco-friendly, environmentally conscious and water-wise alternative to natural turf grass. Please visit our gallery to see pictures of this project.