Ecoscape Environmental Design

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Ecoscape Environmental Design
9 Reviews

Stone Pathways & Stairs by Ecoscape

Colorado neighborhoods along the Front Range vary from the relatively flat to slopped and hilly. A simple thing like a well-lit pathway can make all the difference when juggling grocery bags, firewood, and all the kid gear. It's amazing to think that clear walkways actually have a calming effect on our nervous system. Don't believe it? Next time you need to venture to your back yard, is it an easy to and fro experience? Or are you thinking it may be time to consider a landscape improvement?
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The homeowners were considering several spots around their property to put in a new hot tub. The best location was off the master bedroom, but large heavy slabs of flagstone and tired ornamental grasses did not scream 'sanctuary space for soaking'. By clearing out the awkward slabs and installing...
Lead Me to the Hot Tub
Pathways and walkways are a design element that can be more then purely functional. By using natural stone pavers, like these shown here in Colorado redstone and NM buff sandstone, you can add visual interest and color to your yard, especially in the winter time when plants are bare and dormant....
Creative Stone Pathways
This mountain home west of Boulder had several entrances, each with a different elevation. The challenge for Ecoscape's design team was to bring a more unified look to the property's landscape. By choosing locally sourced redstone to compliment the plentiful moss rock boulders, a sensible...
Step Around and Watch the Critters
Determining the major elements in a landscape is the easy part...making the transitions look seamless, not so much! This mountain property had two entrances on the side of the home, with a stairway up to the deck, in the middle. There's gutter drainage that also needed to be routed away from the...
Graceful Transitions
Before the Ecoscape designers created this backyard terrace design, this space was an odd- shaped, upwardly sloping, compacted-dirt yard with a smattering of straggly turf, assorted weeds, and a few undesirable Russian olive trees. The graduated redstone pathway is the focal point, drawing the eye...
Curving Pathway in Redstone
Stairways are technically a pathway that gains elevation by steps. Depending on the slope and grade of your property, stairs can provide both a functional and aesthetic value in landscape design. In Colorado, plentiful redstone is a natural choice for durability (the elements are fierce here!). ...
Robust Stone Stairway
A stately home deserves a stately pathway entry. This North Boulder home had some established trees and shrubs, but was lacking a gracious pathway from the street. Gone is a sea of common turf grass, replaced by xeric and pollinator friendly perennials that line this buff sandstone pathway.
Elegant Pathway Home
The homeowner wanted to utilize the thick cut redstone stairs, but the original pathway pavers had wide spaced joints with turf coming through. Ecoscape's team nested moss rock boulders along the steps, and completely reset the pathway by adding more pavers to unify the spacing. The end result is a...
Walkway Wonderful!
A gentle curving pathway to your front door is seen as more auspicious in feng shui, then the typical 'straight shot path' style of most homes. When the homeowner asked Ecoscape to renovate their front yard to reduce the amount of turf, it made sense to upgrade their walkway. With low-voltage...
Don't Forget a Pathway Light!
The homeowner of this midcentury modern residence in Boulder is originally from Australia and wanted the landscape design plantings to be inspired by her native land. End result was practical contemporary aesthetics, economical concrete dimensional-cut steppers, and a fabulous plant palette of...
Modern Steppers & Xeric Plantings