📍 Case Study · Lakewood, Colorado
Drought-Tolerant Sod: A Real Lawn Under Colorado Water Rules
These Lakewood homeowners wanted an actual lawn — not rock, not turf paint — without fighting drought restrictions every summer. The answer was Tahoma 31, a drought-tolerant hybrid bermudagrass that greens up quickly and roots aggressively, so it holds through heat that kills thirsty bluegrass.
The scope
- Removal of the struggling existing lawn and soil preparation
- Tahoma 31 drought-tolerant sod, installed over amended, graded soil
- Irrigation tuned to the new grass — deeper, less frequent watering
- Clean bed edges so the new lawn frames the plantings
How we built it
We design the lawn as part of the landscape, not a patch of grass. Soil prep and grading came first, then sod installation, then the irrigation schedule was set for how Tahoma 31 actually drinks — its aggressive root system rewards deep, infrequent watering and repays it with fast green-up.
The result
A lawn the family can actually use, with a water bill that behaves — and grass engineered for exactly the conditions Colorado summers throw at it.
Complete outdoor living projects like this one begin around $35,000. We design and build the whole thing — from first sketch to final stone.