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Eric van den Brulle PHOTOGRAPHYInspiration for a mediterranean patio in New York with a pergola, gravel and a fireplace.
Karen Rogers at KR Garden DesignWalpole Garden, Chiswick
Photography by Caroline Mardon - www.carolinemardon.com
Design ideas for a small traditional patio steps in London with brick paving.
Design ideas for a small traditional patio steps in London with brick paving.
Mom's Design BuildSmall classic back patio in Minneapolis with a fireplace, brick paving and a pergola.
Boyce Design + BuildThe classic style covered cabana sits poolside and houses an impressive, outdoor, stacked stone, wood burning fireplace with wood storage, mounted tv, a vaulted tongue and groove ceiling and an outdoor living room perfect for hosting family and friends.
Quarry MillNantucket thin stone veneer from the Quarry Mill looks fantastic on this exterior fireplace. Nantucket is a castle rock style real stone veneer with beautiful shades of dark grey and hints of blue. It has been said that this stone resembles cold steel with its semi-consistent color shades. The individual pieces of stone have subtle color depth ranging from a natural mica pattern to veining. Nantucket gives a solid and imposing appearance due to the larger rectangles and darker colors. This real stone veneer is a castle rock or square rec style due to the large rectangular pieces. Nantucket is a great choice for awe inspiring residential exteriors.
Atlanta Decking & Fence Co., Inc.JS Photo FX
Photo of a rustic terrace in Atlanta with a fireplace and no cover.
Photo of a rustic terrace in Atlanta with a fireplace and no cover.
Westlake Development Group, LLCJustin Krug Photography
Photo of an expansive rural back patio in Portland with a fireplace, concrete slabs and a roof extension.
Photo of an expansive rural back patio in Portland with a fireplace, concrete slabs and a roof extension.
Urban Oasis Design & Construction LLCRustic back patio in Seattle with natural stone paving, no cover and a fireplace.
The Garden BuildersBen Robert - Blooming Photography
This is an example of a small contemporary back patio in London with concrete paving, no cover and a fireplace.
This is an example of a small contemporary back patio in London with concrete paving, no cover and a fireplace.
Details Interiors, LLCGalie Photography
This is an example of a large classic back patio in Raleigh with no cover, tiled flooring and a fireplace.
This is an example of a large classic back patio in Raleigh with no cover, tiled flooring and a fireplace.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignA 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.
Soloway Designs Inc | Architecture + Interiors AIAPhoto of a front formal partial sun garden steps in Phoenix with natural stone paving.
Avalon Northwest Landscape, LLCDesign By LaPatra Architects, Seattle
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
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