By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine
I love my second-story deck, but sometimes we feel a little overexposed up there. That's why I'm so taken with the screening job Rebecca Sams and Buell Steelman did with their own second-story deck, shown here.
Principals of Mosaic Gardens in Eugene, OR, Sams and Steelman chose arrow bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica) for the living screen, and galvanized steel stock tanks for containers. The bamboo is cooling and rustles when breezes come through. The tanks are narrow, and do a perfect job containing this running bamboo. You can buy them for a couple of hundred dollars each at farm supply stores and some big box stores.
The deck chairs are from the Fusion series by Henry Hall; the table was custom designed by Mosaic, and made by a local steel fabricator.
