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Ginkgo Leaf Studio
The existing porch and steps of stamped concrete were replaced with patterned bluestone and bluestone treads. A “foyer” of bluestone outlined in Valders stone mimics the arch-shaped windows on the home.
Arrow. Land + Structures
A lush traditional garden full of perennial color, built along the rear lot lines of this Glencoe home.
This is an example of a traditional partial sun backyard gravel garden path in Chicago.
This is an example of a traditional partial sun backyard gravel garden path in Chicago.
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Maverick LLC
Bluestone patio
Inspiration for a mid-sized timeless backyard stone patio remodel in New York with no cover
Inspiration for a mid-sized timeless backyard stone patio remodel in New York with no cover
Pistils Landscape Design + Build
Variegated bluestone path
Photo of a large mediterranean drought-tolerant and partial sun backyard stone landscaping in Portland.
Photo of a large mediterranean drought-tolerant and partial sun backyard stone landscaping in Portland.
London Stoneworks LLC
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Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary shade backyard stone garden path in Chicago for summer.
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary shade backyard stone garden path in Chicago for summer.
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Sterling, VA
SURROUNDS Landscape Architecture + Construction
DC Area's High-End Custom Landscape Design/Build Firm
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Manzer's Landscape Design & Development
Inspiration for a large timeless backyard tile patio remodel in New York with a fire pit and no cover
The Design Build Company
Estate landscaping with long driveway, and new Pool with new bluestone paving all designed and installed by Rob Hill, landscape architect-contractor . The outdoor pool pavilion designed by Friehauf architects. This is a 7 acre estate with equestrian area, stone walls terracing and cottage garden traditional landscaping
Chalet
This is an example of a large traditional partial sun front yard stone landscaping in Chicago.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
The Berry family of Houston, Texas hired us to do swimming pool renovation in their backyard. The pool was badly in need of repair. Its surface, plaster, tile, and coping all needed reworking. The Berry’s had finally decided it was time to do something about this, so they contacted us to inquire about swimming pool restoration. We told them that we could certainly repair the damaged elements. After we took a closer look at the pool, however, we realized that more was required here than a cosmetic solution to wear and tear.
Because of some serious design flaws, the aesthetic of the pool worked against surrounding landscape design. The rear portion of the pool was framed by architectural wall, and the water was surrounded by a brick and bluestone patio. The problem lay in the fact that the wall was too tall.
It created a sense of separation from the remainder of the yard, and it obscured the view of a beautiful arbor that had been built beneath the trees behind the pool. It also hosted a contemporary-style, sheer-descent waterfall fountain that looked too modern for a traditional lawn and garden design. Restoring this wall to its proper relationship with the landscape would turn out to be one of the key elements to our swimming pool renovations work.
We began by lowering the wall the wall so you could see the arbor and trees in the backyard more clearly. We also did away with the sheer-descent waterfall that clashed with surrounding backyard landscape design. We decided that a more traditional fountain would be more appropriate to the setting, and more aesthetically apropos if it complimented the brick and bluestone patio.
To create this façade, we had to reconstruct the wall with bluestone columns rising up through the brick. These columns matched the bluestone in the patio, and added a stately form to the otherwise plain brick wall. Each column rose slightly higher than the top of the wall and was capped at the top. Thermal-finish weirs crafted in a flame detail jutted from under the capstones and poured water into the pool below.
To draw greater emphasis to the pool itself as a body of water, we continued our swimming pool renovation with an expansion of the brick coping. This drew greater emphasis to the body of water within its form, and helps focus awareness on the tranquility created by the fountain. We also removed the outdated diving board and replaced it with a diving rock. This was safer and more attractive than the board.
We also extended the entire pool and patio another 15 feet toward the right. This made the entire area a more relaxed and sweeping expanse of hardscape. While doing so, we expanded the brick coping around the pool from 8 inches to 12 inches. Because the spa had a rather unique shape, we decided to replace the coping here with custom brink interlace style that would fit its irregular design.
Now that the swimming pool renovation itself was complete, we sought to extend the new sense of expansiveness into the rest of the yard. To accomplish this, we built a walkway out of bluestone stepping pads that ran across the surface of the water to the arbor on the other side of the fountain wall.
This unique pathway created invitation to the world of the trees beyond the water’s edge, and counterbalanced the focal point of the pool area with the arbor as a secondary point of interest. We built a terrace and a dining area here so people could remain here in comfort for as long as they liked without having to run back to the patio or dash inside the kitchen for food and drinks.
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Charlottesville, VA
Candace M P Smith Architect
Leading Architect and Design Firm in Greene County
Manzer's Landscape Design & Development
Inspiration for a large timeless backyard tile patio remodel in New York with a fire pit and no cover
Wallace Landscape Associates
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary shade backyard gravel landscaping in Philadelphia.
Westover Landscape Design
Often, less is more. Take this landscape design composed of climbing roses, hydrangeas, and lilies surrounding a bluestone terrace. This small, suburban garden feels both expansive and intimate. Japanese forest grass softens the edge of the terrace and adds just enough of a modern look to make the garden’s owners, urban transplants, happy. “My husband and I were looking for an outdoor space that had a secret-garden feeling,” says homeowner Anne Lillis-Ruth. “We’ve had fun adding furniture, antique planters, and a stone fountain to [landscape designer] Robert Welsch’s beautiful landscape. The white and green plantings provide the perfect backdrop to my collection of colorful table linens, glassware, and china. We love our garden!”
Dean Fisher loved it, too. “The setting is so lovely and relaxed. It evokes the south of France, with its intimate scale and the integration of house and patio through the use of the vines and other plantings.”
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Chalet
This is an example of a large traditional partial sun front yard stone landscaping in Chicago.
Rock Spring Design Group LLC (David Verespy, ASLA)
Inspiration for a traditional hillside landscaping in New York.
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