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Krueger Architects
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Inspiration for a small contemporary backyard deck in Los Angeles with a fire feature and a pergola.
Inspiration for a small contemporary backyard deck in Los Angeles with a fire feature and a pergola.
Premier Lawncare & Landscape, LLC
The wall is constructed. Now, we just need to finish back-filling and grade the area behind the wall.
Inspiration for a small modern backyard partial sun garden in Grand Rapids with a retaining wall.
Inspiration for a small modern backyard partial sun garden in Grand Rapids with a retaining wall.
Patrick Meneguzzi Interiors
Photography by Matthew Moore
Inspiration for a small contemporary balcony in Melbourne with a roof extension and with privacy feature.
Inspiration for a small contemporary balcony in Melbourne with a roof extension and with privacy feature.
Jeffrey Erb
Jeffrey Erb
Photo of a small contemporary backyard rectangular pool in New York with a hot tub and decking.
Photo of a small contemporary backyard rectangular pool in New York with a hot tub and decking.
KD Landscape
Landscape design by John Algozzini, lighting design by Kevin Manning.
This project received a 2013 Hardscape North America Design Award, and a 2014 ILCA Award of Excellence. It has also been featured in Chicagoland Gardening Magazine and Total Landscape Care Magazine.
Photo courtesy of Bridget Clauson.
Terra Ferma Landscapes
We loved this Japanese soaking tub nestled in a bed of river rocks against the bluestone wall.
Inspiration for a small contemporary backyard garden in San Francisco with decking.
Inspiration for a small contemporary backyard garden in San Francisco with decking.
Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
Newly installed plantings that provide a beautiful variety of colors and textures for year-round appeal. And chosen to soften and enhance the beauty of the horizontal fencing and concrete planters.
Architect: Barry Peterson, Studio300A Architecture.
Planting Plan Design and Photos: © Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
Ketti Kupper Conscious Life Design
Boulder Fountain with Dry Creek, succulents, and low water grasses. Photo by Ketti Kupper
Design ideas for a small country backyard partial sun xeriscape in Los Angeles with a water feature and natural stone pavers.
Design ideas for a small country backyard partial sun xeriscape in Los Angeles with a water feature and natural stone pavers.
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.
Georgian Landscape Design
Complete Landscape Makeover including pool and spa, walls, pavers, artificial turf and plants!
Photo of a small modern backyard rectangular natural pool in Atlanta with with a pool and concrete pavers.
Photo of a small modern backyard rectangular natural pool in Atlanta with with a pool and concrete pavers.
Legacy Post & Beam
Post and beam cabin front porch
Inspiration for a small country backyard screened-in verandah with a roof extension and metal railing.
Inspiration for a small country backyard screened-in verandah with a roof extension and metal railing.
Northwest Native Landscapes LLC
This compact, urban backyard was in desperate need of privacy. We created a series of outdoor rooms, privacy screens, and lush plantings all with an Asian-inspired design sense. Elements include a covered outdoor lounge room, sun decks, rock gardens, shade garden, evergreen plant screens, and raised boardwalk to connect the various outdoor spaces. The finished space feels like a true backyard oasis.
Fireplace Stone & Patio
Want to make a splash this summer? Add our adjustable louvered pergola to your backyard so you can lounge or dine outdoors regardless of the weather.
Photo of a small contemporary backyard patio with a pergola.
Photo of a small contemporary backyard patio with a pergola.
Agence MORVANT & MOINGEON Paysagistes Concepteurs
Inspiration for a small modern garden in Marseille with decking.
Wildflower Landscape Design at K&D Landscaping
We transformed this unusable sloping side yard into a casual and modern outdoor living space. Complete with modern privacy fencing, fire bowl and an outdoor shower.
Jordan Iverson Signature Homes
Outdoor patio with gas fireplace that lives right off the kitchen. Perfect for hosting or being outside privately, as it's secluded from neighbors. Wood floors, cement walls with a cover.
Ирина Шестопалова
Дмитрий Цыренщиков
Photo of a small contemporary balcony for for apartments in Saint Petersburg.
Photo of a small contemporary balcony for for apartments in Saint Petersburg.
Fire Magic Grills - Robert H Peterson Company
Photo of a small transitional backyard patio in Los Angeles with an outdoor kitchen, tile and no cover.
Double B Design, LLC
Steel planters at varying heights to enjoy while sitting around the fire pit. Trellis will act as a green screen to block the neighboring condo when vines grow in.
Photo by Rachel Paul Photography
This is an example of a small mediterranean indoor round aboveground pool in Austin with a hot tub and tile.
Small Brown Outdoor Design Ideas
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