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Adolfo Harrison Gardens
Photo by Andreas von Einsiedel
einsiedel.com
This is an example of a contemporary rooftop and rooftop deck in London with a container garden and no cover.
This is an example of a contemporary rooftop and rooftop deck in London with a container garden and no cover.
Daco Stone
Backyard garden area with stone lined pebble path and Daco Real Stone Veneer wall
Photo of a large country backyard partial sun formal garden for summer in Atlanta with with path and river rock.
Photo of a large country backyard partial sun formal garden for summer in Atlanta with with path and river rock.
Welcome Home Design Group
Victor Coar
This is an example of a transitional patio in Other with a fire feature.
This is an example of a transitional patio in Other with a fire feature.
MasterPLAN Outdoor Living
The homeowners wanted an integrated, open outdoor space for entertainment and grilling. It had to look great from the inside of their home and offer the feel of a private wooded retreat; yet be functional.
PITCH Concepts
Chicago Home Photos
Inspiration for a large contemporary rooftop and rooftop deck in Chicago with a fire feature and no cover.
Inspiration for a large contemporary rooftop and rooftop deck in Chicago with a fire feature and no cover.
Markalunas Architecture Group
Lake Front Country Estate Outdoor Living, designed by Tom Markalunas, built by Resort Custom Homes. Photography by Rachael Boling.
This is an example of a large traditional backyard patio in Other with natural stone pavers and a roof extension.
This is an example of a large traditional backyard patio in Other with natural stone pavers and a roof extension.
brett zamore design
Brett Zamore Design
Contemporary backyard patio in Houston with an outdoor kitchen and concrete pavers.
Contemporary backyard patio in Houston with an outdoor kitchen and concrete pavers.
Cottage Gardener, LTD
This project was designed and installed by Cottage Gardener, LTD. These photos highlight our effort to create seasonal interest throughout the entire year.
TREX COMPANY INC
Designed using Trex Transcend decking in Spiced Rum – a warm, earthy umber featuring subtle shading and natural shade variations creating distinctive hardwood-like streaking and intense, tropical hues that will retain its lush looks for decades and Vintage Lantern – a deep-burnished bronze with Old World elegance.
Additional Trex products featured include Trex Transcend railing, Trex Pergola, Trex Elevations and Trex Outdoor Lighting.
Satterwhite Construction Inc.
Alicia Satterwhite
Inspiration for an arts and crafts verandah in Raleigh.
Inspiration for an arts and crafts verandah in Raleigh.
Barker Kappelle Construction, LLC
This is an example of a tropical patio in Hawaii with an outdoor shower.
Viscusi Elson Interior Design - Gina Viscusi Elson
This is an example of a mid-sized traditional balcony in San Francisco with a pergola and with privacy feature.
Bill Mellett Design
Bill Mellett Design, BMDLA.com
Design ideas for a traditional garden in Santa Barbara with with flowerbed.
Design ideas for a traditional garden in Santa Barbara with with flowerbed.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
This shade arbor, located in The Woodlands, TX north of Houston, spans the entire length of the back yard. It combines a number of elements with custom structures that were constructed to emulate specific aspects of a Zen garden. The homeowner wanted a low-maintenance garden whose beauty could withstand the tough seasonal weather that strikes the area at various times of the year. He also desired a mood-altering aesthetic that would relax the senses and calm the mind. Most importantly, he wanted this meditative environment completely shielded from the outside world so he could find serenity in total privacy.
The most unique design element in this entire project is the roof of the shade arbor itself. It features a “negative space” leaf pattern that was designed in a software suite and cut out of the metal with a water jet cutter. Each form in the pattern is loosely suggestive of either a leaf, or a cluster of leaves.
These small, negative spaces cut from the metal are the source of the structure’ powerful visual and emotional impact. During the day, sunlight shines down and highlights columns, furniture, plantings, and gravel with a blend of dappling and shade that make you feel like you are sitting under the branches of a tree.
At night, the effects are even more brilliant. Skillfully concealed lights mounted on the trusses reflect off the steel in places, while in other places they penetrate the negative spaces, cascading brilliant patterns of ambient light down on vegetation, hardscape, and water alike.
The shade arbor shelters two gravel patios that are almost identical in space. The patio closest to the living room features a mini outdoor dining room, replete with tables and chairs. The patio is ornamented with a blend of ornamental grass, a small human figurine sculpture, and mid-level impact ground cover.
Gravel was chosen as the preferred hardscape material because of its Zen-like connotations. It is also remarkably soft to walk on, helping to set the mood for a relaxed afternoon in the dappled shade of gently filtered sunlight.
The second patio, spaced 15 feet away from the first, resides adjacent to the home at the opposite end of the shade arbor. Like its twin, it is also ornamented with ground cover borders, ornamental grasses, and a large urn identical to the first. Seating here is even more private and contemplative. Instead of a table and chairs, there is a large decorative concrete bench cut in the shape of a giant four-leaf clover.
Spanning the distance between these two patios, a bluestone walkway connects the two spaces. Along the way, its borders are punctuated in places by low-level ornamental grasses, a large flowering bush, another sculpture in the form of human faces, and foxtail ferns that spring up from a spread of river rock that punctuates the ends of the walkway.
The meditative quality of the shade arbor is reinforced by two special features. The first of these is a disappearing fountain that flows from the top of a large vertical stone embedded like a monolith in the other edges of the river rock. The drains and pumps to this fountain are carefully concealed underneath the covering of smooth stones, and the sound of the water is only barely perceptible, as if it is trying to force you to let go of your thoughts to hear it.
A large piece of core-10 steel, which is deliberately intended to rust quickly, rises up like an arced wall from behind the fountain stone. The dark color of the metal helps the casual viewer catch just a glimpse of light reflecting off the slow trickle of water that runs down the side of the stone into the river rock bed.
To complete the quiet moment that the shade arbor is intended to invoke, a thick wall of cypress trees rises up on all sides of the yard, completely shutting out the disturbances of the world with a comforting wall of living greenery that comforts the thoughts and emotions.
Ryan Duebber Architect, LLC
Lower Deck with built-in sand box
Photography by Ross Van Pelt
Design ideas for a contemporary deck in Cincinnati.
Design ideas for a contemporary deck in Cincinnati.
Princeton Design Collaborative
Garden allee path with copper pipe trellis
Photo by: Jeffrey Edward Tryon of PDC
Design ideas for a small contemporary courtyard shaded formal garden for summer in Philadelphia with gravel.
Design ideas for a small contemporary courtyard shaded formal garden for summer in Philadelphia with gravel.
Garden Structures & More
This sounds was designed as a framework not as a barrier.
Mid-sized asian side yard partial sun formal garden in Minneapolis with a garden path and natural stone pavers for spring.
Mid-sized asian side yard partial sun formal garden in Minneapolis with a garden path and natural stone pavers for spring.
Margie Grace - Grace Design Associates
Uber green earthy contemporary
Winner of the Gold Medal and the International Landscaper Designer of The Year for APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers)
Winner of Santa Barbara Beautiful Award, Large Family Residence
Brown Outdoor Design Ideas
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