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Bonner Landscape Contractors
Truevine Photography, Shawn Sims
Photo of a large arts and crafts backyard full sun garden for summer in Philadelphia with natural stone pavers and a fire feature.
Photo of a large arts and crafts backyard full sun garden for summer in Philadelphia with natural stone pavers and a fire feature.
GroundTec, Inc.
Photo of a mid-sized traditional backyard patio in Philadelphia with a fire feature and natural stone pavers.
Twin Oaks Landscape, Inc.
Inspiration for a large country backyard patio in Detroit with natural stone pavers, a pergola and an outdoor kitchen.
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Andrew Franz Architect PLLC
In Manhattan’s landmarked Tribeca North, the top floor and roof of an 1884 warehouse are reconceived as a warm and welcoming residence with a fluid connection to the outdoor environment. A relocated mezzanine features a sunken court yard with a retractable glass roof and connects to the new green roof garden above. Embracing the building’s industrial past, a visual discourse between new and old is devised through insertions of modern materials along with restored or reclaimed materials.
Photography: Albert Vecerka-Esto
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Ansel Olson
Inspiration for a large country backyard rectangular infinity pool in Richmond with natural stone pavers.
Inspiration for a large country backyard rectangular infinity pool in Richmond with natural stone pavers.
MFS Masonry
Large traditional backyard patio in New York with concrete pavers, no cover and an outdoor kitchen.
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and Contractors
This is an example of a large traditional backyard patio in Chicago with an outdoor kitchen, natural stone pavers and a pergola.
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.
Photo of a large contemporary backyard rectangular pool in San Francisco with a hot tub and natural stone pavers.
Outdoor Dreams
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard patio in Richmond with a fire feature, concrete pavers and no cover.
Grow Landscapes
Duy Tran Photography
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard patio in DC Metro with a fire feature, natural stone pavers and no cover.
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard patio in DC Metro with a fire feature, natural stone pavers and no cover.
New Eco Landscapes
Photos by Lori Cannava
Photo of a small contemporary backyard patio in New York with no cover, a container garden and natural stone pavers.
Photo of a small contemporary backyard patio in New York with no cover, a container garden and natural stone pavers.
SGK Landscapes
Bird's Eye view of outdoor shower and bathroom. Photos by: Tyler Robinson
This is an example of a traditional two-storey brick brown exterior in Jackson.
This is an example of a traditional two-storey brick brown exterior in Jackson.
Kimberly Mercurio Landscape Architecture
This modern version of a traditional Cape Cod barn doubles as a pool house with changing rooms and a bath. The pool filtration and mechanical devices are hidden from view behind the barn. The location of the pool equipment reduces noise and maintains a peaceful environment. The indoor/outdoor dining area is open to the bluestone patio. Thyme, is evergreen, is planted between the bluestone pavers. The sliding doors have copper screens and open to provide a view of the backyard of the property.
Bagnato Architecture & Interiors
This simple back yard has a variety of materials to add visual variety such as stone walls and pavers, timber slatted fence which is decking ad paint rusted feature walls
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James Martin Associates
Request Free QuoteEach of our client’s varied garden features shows a different personality as dusk graces the garden. Yet they all still combine as one distinct display as forms and materials both blend and accent each other in a dramatic showing.
Photographs by Linda Oyama Bryan
Paul Maue Associates Landscape Architects
This reproduction colonial sits in a wooded clearing framed by the low stone wall and simple, elegant foundation planting that is maintained to respect the architectural features of this home. Medium scaled flowering pear, cherry and redbud are the canopy link to the large oaks and pines that surround the home. The fieldstone and bluestone waterfall steps in the wall are a formal response to the main entrance.
Photo: Paul Maue
Solicito and Son Landscape Contracting
Inspiration for a traditional backyard garden in New York with mulch.
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