Design ideas for a mid-sized tropical backyard patio in Los Angeles with an outdoor kitchen, concrete slab and no cover.

Custom designed recessed patio/lanai sitting area with lp remote ignition starting fire feature.
Design ideas for a mid-sized tropical backyard patio in Hawaii with a fire feature.

Raised planting bed with shelf serves as outdoor bar seating
Design ideas for a small tropical backyard patio in New York with an outdoor kitchen and natural stone pavers.

Photo of a mid-sized tropical backyard patio in Los Angeles with a fire feature, decking and no cover.

We created this award winning outdoor kitchen with refurbished pool deck and terraced landscaping. What was a steep inhospitable rear yard falling down to a canal, became an outdoor oasis for this family. 2015 Award of Excellence from the Natl. Assn. of Landscape Professionals.

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This is an example of a tropical backyard patio in Charlotte with a pergola.

Stepping stone walkway with mondo grass in the joints in Lighthouse Point, Florida by Waterfalls Fountains & Gardens Inc. Plantings by Ultimate Landscape

These sails where added to this outdoor seating area located on the Miami River to provide shade and allow the area to be used in the summer afternoon Sun.

Contained in a small courtyard, this intimate garden includes a full sized lounge chair along with an outdoor shower and full bath. The Herbert S. Frank Special Award recognizes exceptional design, unique use of materials and quality of construction in a residential landscape. Granted at the discretion of the California Landscape Contractors Association judges, this award is not necessarily given each year at the Trophy Awards event. In 2014, Confidence Landscaping, Inc. earned this important honor that carries the highly respected name of one of the founding members of the CLCA - San Francisco Bay Area chapter.

Inspiration for a tropical backyard patio in Miami with an outdoor shower.

A Memorial area family commissioned us to create a natural swimming pool in their back yard. The family already had a standard pool on premises, but it was isolated in an area of the yard not particularly suited to seating guests or hosting get-togethers. What they wanted was a second, natural swimming pool built that would serve as the hub of a new home outdoor entertainment area consisting of a new stone patio, comfortable outdoor seating, and a fire pit. They wanted to create something unique that would preserve as much of the natural features of the landscape as possible, but that would also be completely safe and fully functional as a swimming pool. We decided to design this new landscaping plan around a pre-existent waterfall that was already on the property. This feature was too attractive to ignore, and provided the ideal anchor point for a new gathering area. The fountain had been designed to mimic a natural waterfall, with stones laid on top of one another in such a way as to look like a mountain cliff where water spontaneously springs from the top and cascades down the rocks. At first glance, many would miss the opportunity that such a structure provides; assuming that a fountain designed like a cliff would have to be completely replaced to install a natural swimming pool. Our landscaping designers, however, came up with a landscape plan to transform one archetypal form into the other by simply adding to what was already there. At the base of the rocks we dug a basin. This basin was oblong in shape and varied in degrees of depth ranging from a few inches on the end to five feet in the middle. We directed the flow of the water toward one end of the basin, so that it flowed into the depression and created a swimming pool at the base of the rocks. This was easy to accomplish because the fountain lay parallel to the top of a natural ravine located toward the back of the property, so water flow was maintained by gravity. This had the secondary effect of creating a new natural aesthetic. The addition of the basin transformed the fountain’s appearance to look more like a cliff you would see in a river, where the elevation suddenly drops, and water rushes over a series of rocks into a deeper pool below. Children and guests swimming in this new structure could actually imagine themselves in a Rocky Mountain River. We then heated the swimming pool so it could be enjoyed in the winter as well as the summer, and we also lit the pool using two types of luminaries for complimentary effects. For vegetation, we used mercury vapor down lights to backlight surrounding trees and to bring out the green color of foliage in and around the top of the rocks. For the brown color of the rocks themselves, and to create a sparkling luminance rising up and out of the water, we installed incandescent, underwater up lights. The lights were GFIC protected to make the natural swimming pool shock proof and safe for human use.

Small tropical backyard patio in Los Angeles with a fire feature, a roof extension and concrete slab.

Inspiration for a large tropical backyard patio in Orange County with concrete pavers and a pergola.

Inspiration for a large tropical backyard patio in Hawaii with decking and a roof extension.

Tropical backyard patio in Miami with an outdoor kitchen, brick pavers and no cover.

Photo of a small tropical backyard patio in Cairns with an outdoor shower, concrete slab and a roof extension.

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Inspiration for a large tropical backyard patio in New York with a roof extension.

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This is an example of a tropical backyard patio in Miami with a roof extension.

Design ideas for a large tropical backyard patio in Tampa with an outdoor kitchen and a roof extension.