Love the way this outdoor space uses crisp geometry with outdoor textures like grass. It's got an Alice In Wonderland vibe going on.

I love this neat, simple structure - it provides just the right amount of shelter and its minimal style is a great match for the cool checkerboard yard.

I love this checkerboard landscape.

1. Consider the Grid. Because you live in California in a modern house, always keep the grid and playing off lines in mind. Whether things are lining up with a door, window, post, et. al., making connections with lines and a grid base is a good way to get started with your style of house.

Checks outside! Grass and concrete make for a winning pair here. Browse 100,000+ more home design photos

I couldn't talk about positive-negative spaces without showing you at least one checkerboard. It's a favorite design theme, and here it is quite successful. Imagine this veranda planted with only grass or paved with only concrete. Neither solution would be as effective as this one, where a functional walkway becomes a work of art. Another reason this design works so well is that the bold squares are in proportion to the architecture. There's nothing tiny here.

the textured exterior wall

Fake turf

Checquered- grass & slab

landscape, driveway

Grid

Chess patio

Squares

grid pattern

Checkerboard grass

here is checker board pattern....but a random pattern with an occasional square of grass....carrying the theme of the sculptural wall

حديقه

Grass Andy blocks

paving

LOVE the driveway

LOVE checkerboard

Back Yard - Checkerboard

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Garden

making a garden retro

palmentas y pasto importante look para un jardín moderno

White

HERMOGENO DESIGNS

Interesting paver / landscape idea for the North garden area...

I wonder what it would be like to mow this lawn?

checks in yard

Concrete and grass

Great

Maybe for a modern look

green check floors

Simple Modern

Bedroom patio

For front patio

great for the garden as a chess board

Checkered

love the clean lines and the playful use of texture and contrast

carport canopy

The pattern in the ground and wall create grid form for its geometric pattern.

LANDSCAPE

pattern of landscape

Another garden grid.

Minimalist gdn

Checkerboard

Landscaping

Pattern

green floor

landscaping

geometric design

alternate grass squares with pavers

stone and grass

Breezeway

Y

Jardin

pergola going out, not just across

patio

pool deck

pavers

Chess board

Like the floor

pastelones y maceteros

Landscape

This is the idea we had, by adding a patch or two of grass, to match the shape of adjacent stepping stone(s)

patio

the path and porch

1

Neat

grass treatment

Pachino about pool

Reminds me of Alice in Wonderland

Artificial grass pattern

outdoor room

Can i afford this?!

Grass and cement

Grid grid

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Walkways

side plant

Checkered pattern of grass and concrete

Good outdoor space idea

clean design

concrete squares

grass and paves

the walkway

back hill idea

I couldn't talk about positive-negative spaces without showing you at least one checkerboard. It's a favorite design theme, and here it is quite successful.

for Emily

Grass pavers

love the grass squares

garden design

composition & elegance

big patches

Checkerboard floor. Love it

cuadricula de cesped y palmeta

wow

Patio blocks

grid base

Losas en el jardín

our back yard

Grass and pacers

checker board

sidewalk idea

Chequered yard

jardin entrada

passege

walkway next to studio

Cool lawn patio

grid

LOVE THE POTS

Floor

Artificial grass that looks like this

Chequered paving

Grid

great front or rear lawn idea

Lateral casa

Yard

Cute down side of house

Back yard, but use artificial grass

Garden

like the grid

modern

Me gusta

Pavers

backyard

Gazon

Roof

GRAS

fun to see

Great geometry for visual interest and an excellent way to handle storm water.

outdoors

Jardin

Idéia para o piso da área externa

Patio

courtyard

patern

roof garden on first floor

Planters

Idea for landscape

pretty driveway

lovely for the pathways around the house

Cubes

Geometric Lawn design

charles allem-bel Air

pavers/grass

Yum!

Check game

Piso

Steel checkerboard

the chessboard grass....!!

Walkpath

grass/concrete

landscaping

lawn

very nice

Grid of grass

like the land scaping

floor

squares

Exterior

White and grass squares

Garden

Openness, lines

pergola

beam and flat covering with potlights

From flatlet to entertainment arwa

More checkerboard; Totally dig the patio cover . . .

simple but pratical

grass tile patterns

Idea terraza cierto de musica

backyard?

entrance

exterior

exterior view

Modern design

Cool

I like the interspersing of grass and tile.. mow-able, yet clean. I like it when it provides a walking path, too.

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Garden floor

Walking arrangement within the green

The pattern

Check

Checkered grass

grass design

Grass

Ground cover

really great

The planters!

Build this

the grid

lanscaping

elevator to secret lab below

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