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Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
A local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral.
When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another.
We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within.
To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves.
This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity.
Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.
BK Landscape Design
Award winning hillside renovation with concrete walls and informal 'bocce court'
Design constraints: Full sun and steep hillside
Planting design: This yard started as a blank hillside that had a steep slope. BKLD provided consultation and design work to develop the hillside with a series of terraced walls to create a bocce court. The bocce court was done in an informal fashion with artificial turf so the client could entertain with the space and have the 'look' of green. This turned out to be a great low maintenance and drought tolerant way to add useable space as well as a softer view from the upper deck. Existing Oaks were all kept and designed around carefully with composite decking. The Oaks make for some great shadow play and is quite the dynamic space as the sun angles move thru out the day.
CourTex Construction Inc.
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court for summer in Austin with with outdoor playset and concrete pavers.
Sport Court of Massachusetts
Milton Custom Backyard Basketball Court
This is an example of a mid-sized traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court in Boston with with outdoor playset and concrete pavers.
This is an example of a mid-sized traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court in Boston with with outdoor playset and concrete pavers.
Total Sport Solutions, Inc.
26x28 Basketball Court
The surface is our exclusive BounceBack ShockTower by SnapSports on top of a concrete pad.
Basketball goal is our HyperDunk 543 with 1/2" thick tempered glass backboard, 36" overhang from post to boackboard and height adjustable down to 5'-6"
Ferrara Buist Companies - Landscape
Photo of a mid-sized traditional backyard outdoor sport court in Charlotte with concrete pavers.
Margie Grace - Grace Design Associates
Bluff landscape with Bocce court and Stepstone pavers make for a great outdoor living space.
Holly Lepere
Photo of a mid-sized beach style backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Santa Barbara with concrete pavers.
Photo of a mid-sized beach style backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Santa Barbara with concrete pavers.
Sport Court of Washington, DC
Design ideas for an expansive country backyard partial sun outdoor sport court for summer in DC Metro with concrete pavers.
Bulldog Paving Inc
At Bulldog Paving we specialize in the design and installation of concrete interlocking pavers for residential and commercial, landscape and hardscape projects.
We believe that the use of paving stones for your next driveway, patio, walkway or pool deck is going to enhance the overall appeal of your property. So, if you would like to set up a free consultation for your new paver installation or perhaps you want to seal your existing pavers? Then contact us today and we will discuss all of your options!
Drake's 7 Dees Landscaping & Garden Center
A view from the kitchen window, looking out. You'd never guess this property is less than a mile from the dreaded Terwilliger Curves. Photography by: Joe Hollowell
Sport Court of Massachusetts
Newton Custom Backyard Basketball Court with rebounder
Photo of a small traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court in Boston with concrete pavers.
Photo of a small traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court in Boston with concrete pavers.
Total Sport Solutions, Inc.
With 18 standard court colours to choose from, this family had no problem finding coplours for their court to match their house and garage.
Total Sport Solutions
GEL: Griffin Enright Landscape
Front yard pathways
Design ideas for a mid-sized modern front yard partial sun outdoor sport court for summer in Los Angeles with concrete pavers.
Design ideas for a mid-sized modern front yard partial sun outdoor sport court for summer in Los Angeles with concrete pavers.
Meanix Landscaping
Short garden wall separates garden from lawn nicely. This patio was installed to support an above ground pool.
Mid-sized traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court in Philadelphia with a retaining wall and concrete pavers.
Mid-sized traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court in Philadelphia with a retaining wall and concrete pavers.
Michael Muro Garden Design
This is an example of a small modern backyard partial sun outdoor sport court for spring in Seattle with concrete pavers.
CourTex Construction Inc.
Inspiration for a large traditional backyard partial sun outdoor sport court for summer in Austin with with outdoor playset and concrete pavers.
Ted Lare Design Build
Ted Lare Design Build
Design ideas for a large transitional backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Other with concrete pavers and a retaining wall.
Design ideas for a large transitional backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Other with concrete pavers and a retaining wall.
Everman Designs, LLC
Photo of a mid-sized transitional backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Huntington with concrete pavers.
Matthew Gallant Photography
Matthew Gallant
Photo of a contemporary backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Seattle with concrete pavers.
Photo of a contemporary backyard full sun outdoor sport court in Seattle with concrete pavers.
Sport Court of Massachusetts
Groton Custom Backyard Basketball and Tennis Court with lighting and hockey boards. This all-season court can be flooded for hockey and ice skating during winter months.
Outdoor Sport Court Design Ideas with Concrete Pavers
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