Contemporary Patio with a Water Feature Ideas and Designs

Long town garden Strawberry Hill
Long town garden Strawberry Hill
Echinops Garden DesignEchinops Garden Design
Photo of a medium sized contemporary back patio in London with a water feature, tiled flooring and no cover.
George
George
UserUser
With an impressive double-volume entrance setting the tone, this ‘modern natural’ home design combines contemporary and natural materials as effectively as it combines form and function. The zoned layout unfolds from the entrance hub, providing a separate living space for adult children and a secluded master bedroom wing, as well as an office/home theatre and family living, dining and kitchen area. There’s a large underground garage and store – all incredibly practical, all designed to embrace the site’s northern orientation. This is an elegant home too, with a cohesive form that brings natural materials like stone and timber together with a modern colour palette and render, creating overlapping planes and an unmistakably sophisticated ambiance.
Farmhouse Addition
Farmhouse Addition
Wyant ArchitectureWyant Architecture
The footprint of the addition functions with the existing house and adjacent guest cottage to capture space around a new patio. A glass ribbon, weaving through the copper and stone facade, becomes a connector between old and new, top and bottom, inside and outside. A second floor deck is carved out of the copper 'fore-bay’ and is covered with a glass skylight that empties via chain downspouts to river rock drainage beds below. Photography: Jeffrey Totaro
West Coast English Retreat
West Coast English Retreat
Tierra Madre Fine GardensTierra Madre Fine Gardens
Design ideas for a small contemporary back patio in Other with a water feature, gravel and a pergola.
47 E Woodward
47 E Woodward
Real Estate JudgeReal Estate Judge
Design ideas for a contemporary back patio in Phoenix with a water feature, gravel and no cover.
Sugarloaf Alley
Sugarloaf Alley
Brad Ramsey InteriorsBrad Ramsey Interiors
This is an example of a small contemporary courtyard patio in Nashville with a water feature, tiled flooring and no cover.
Atlantic Beach Contemporary Compact Backyard
Atlantic Beach Contemporary Compact Backyard
Cascade Outdoor DesignCascade Outdoor Design
Small spaces can provide big challenges. These homeowners wanted to include a lot in their tiny backyard! There were also numerous city restrictions to comply with, and elevations to contend with. The design includes several seating areas, a fire feature that can be seen from the home's front entry, a water wall, and retractable screens. This was a "design only" project. Installation was coordinated by the homeowner and completed by others. Photos copyright Cascade Outdoor Design, LLC
Custom Home Remodel
Custom Home Remodel
RJ Smulski HomesRJ Smulski Homes
Contemporary back patio in Seattle with a water feature and a pergola.
Contemporary Patio
Contemporary Patio
Large contemporary back patio in Chicago with a water feature, brick paving and no cover.
Laguna Altura
Laguna Altura
Lee Ann Marienthal GardensLee Ann Marienthal Gardens
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary back patio in Orange County with a water feature, concrete paving and no cover.
Perth Display Garden
Perth Display Garden
Cultivart Landscape DesignCultivart Landscape Design
John Barnett, Janine Mendel
Small contemporary courtyard patio in Perth with a water feature and decking.
Tampa, FL
Tampa, FL
Outdoor Kitchen, Pool & PaversOutdoor Kitchen, Pool & Pavers
Outdoor kitchen, granite, cal flame grill, grill, linear fire place, outdoor fireplace, under mount sink, faucet, undercounter fridge, backsplash, privacy wall, virginia ledge stone, natural stone veneer, cedar, pergola, waterfall, sheer descent, pond, water feature
Water wall
Water wall
Greener Living Solutions  IncGreener Living Solutions Inc
Custom waterfeature in wall with Acid stain finish, provides screening from a neighbor as well as reduces traffic sounds. Chartreuse colored bamboo in rusted steel planters screens the neighboring house.
Decks, Pergola, Arbors, Etc.
Decks, Pergola, Arbors, Etc.
Susan Friedman Landscape ArchitectureSusan Friedman Landscape Architecture
This custom wood gate provides the perfect entry into this Bay Area contemporary garden space. photo by Tom Minczeski Vineyard Landscape Construction
Pool house
Pool house
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignExterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
We were contacted by a family named Pesek who lived near Memorial Drive on the West side of Houston. They lived in a stately home built in the late 1950’s. Many years back, they had contracted a local pool company to install an old lagoon-style pool, which they had since grown tired of. When they initially called us, they wanted to know if we could build them an outdoor room at the far end of the swimming pool. We scheduled a free consultation at a time convenient to them, and we drove out to their residence to take a look at the property. After a quick survey of the back yard, rear of the home, and the swimming pool, we determined that building an outdoor room as an addition to their existing landscaping design would not bring them the results they expected. The pool was visibly dated with an early “70’s” look, which not only clashed with the late 50’s style of home architecture, but guaranteed an even greater clash with any modern-style outdoor room we constructed. Luckily for the Peseks, we offered an even better landscaping plan than the one they had hoped for. We proposed the construction of a new outdoor room and an entirely new swimming pool. Both of these new structures would be built around the classical geometry of proportional right angles. This would allow a very modern design to compliment an older home, because basic geometric patterns are universal in many architectural designs used throughout history. In this case, both the swimming pool and the outdoor rooms were designed as interrelated quadrilateral forms with proportional right angles that created the illusion of lengthened distance and a sense of Classical elegance. This proved a perfect complement to a house that had originally been built as a symbolic emblem of a simpler, more rugged and absolute era. Though reminiscent of classical design and complimentary to the conservative design of the home, the interior of the outdoor room was ultra-modern in its array of comfort and convenience. The Peseks felt this would be a great place to hold birthday parties for their child. With this new outdoor room, the Peseks could take the party outside at any time of day or night, and at any time of year. We also built the structure to be fully functional as an outdoor kitchen as well as an outdoor entertainment area. There was a smoker, a refrigerator, an ice maker, and a water heater—all intended to eliminate any need to return to the house once the party began. Seating and entertainment systems were also added to provide state of the art fun for adults and children alike. We installed a flat-screen plasma TV, and we wired it for cable. The swimming pool was built between the outdoor room and the rear entrance to the house. We got rid of the old lagoon-pool design which geometrically clashed with the right angles of the house and outdoor room. We then had a completely new pool built, in the shape of a rectangle, with a rather innovative coping design. We showcased the pool with a coping that rose perpendicular to the ground out of the stone patio surface. This reinforced our blend of contemporary look with classical right angles. We saved the client an enormous amount of money on travertine by setting the coping so that it does not overhang with the tile. Because the ground between the house and the outdoor room gradually dropped in grade, we used the natural slope of the ground to create another perpendicular right angle at the end of the pool. Here, we installed a waterfall which spilled over into a heated spa. Although the spa was fed from within itself, it was built to look as though water was coming from within the pool. The ultimate result of all of this is a new sense of visual “ebb and flow,” so to speak. When Mr. Pesek sits in his couch facing his house, the earth appears to rise up first into an illuminated pool which leads the way up the steps to his home. When he sits in his spa facing the other direction, the earth rises up like a doorway to his outdoor room, where he can comfortably relax in the water while he watches TV. For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds has specialized in servicing many of Houston's fine neighborhoods.
The Front Door / Dwayne Carruth
The Front Door / Dwayne Carruth
The Front Door / Dwayne CarruthThe Front Door / Dwayne Carruth
photo - Mitchel Naquin
Photo of a large contemporary courtyard patio in New Orleans with a water feature, natural stone paving and no cover.
Grounded - Modern Landscape Architecture
Grounded - Modern Landscape Architecture
Grounded - Richard Risner RLA, ASLAGrounded - Richard Risner RLA, ASLA
Grounded - Modern Landscape Architecture
Inspiration for a contemporary patio in San Diego with a water feature.
Monaco Luxury Pools - Pacific Mist
Monaco Luxury Pools - Pacific Mist
Jeri Koegel PhotographyJeri Koegel Photography
Photo of a contemporary back patio in Orange County with a water feature, tiled flooring and no cover.
Entry Courtyard
Entry Courtyard
Landwell Design + Build Co.Landwell Design + Build Co.
Small contemporary courtyard patio in San Luis Obispo with a water feature, concrete paving and a pergola.
La Forge Residence
La Forge Residence
So Green Canada (landscape design /build)So Green Canada (landscape design /build)
This is an example of a large contemporary back patio in Toronto with a water feature, natural stone paving and no cover.

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