apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Name: Mark
Location: Portland, Oregon
Type of space: Balcony
Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: The winter weather in Portland forces us indoors for a good chunk of the year, so when the summer sun pops its face out of the grey clouds, we Portlanders head outdoors. Any where you walk in the city during the summer, you’ll see Portlanders on their balconies, front stoops, and porches, eating, drinking, laughing, sharing each other’s company. My girlfriend Lydia and I try eat on our balcony as much as possible, often hosting our friends.

We are both pizza lovers and have started making pizzas on the grill. Because our balcony is so small, we use a small Weber grill… which actually works better than a big grill for making pizzas because it gets so hot.