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Chiltern Garden DesignUnder a fully automated bio-climatic pergola, a dining area and outdoor kitchen have been created on a raised composite deck. The kitchen is fully equipped with SubZero Wolf appliances, outdoor pizza oven, warming drawer, barbecue and sink, with a granite worktop. Heaters and screens help to keep the party going into the evening, as well as lights incorporated into the pergola, whose slats can open and close electronically. A decorative screen creates an enhanced backdrop and ties into the pattern on the 'decorative rug' around the firebowl.
Lucy Willcox Garden DesignThis Courtyard was transformed from being an Astro Turf box to a useable, versatile Outdoor Room!
Small contemporary back patio in London with a bbq area, tiled flooring and a pergola.
Small contemporary back patio in London with a bbq area, tiled flooring and a pergola.
Iguana Architects & Interior DesignRear Extension and decking design with out door seating and planting design. With a view in to the kitchen and dinning area.
This is an example of a large contemporary back ground level wood railing terrace in London with no cover.
This is an example of a large contemporary back ground level wood railing terrace in London with no cover.
Epoch LandscapesShortlisted for the prestigious Small Project Big Impact award!
Photo of a contemporary courtyard terrace in London with feature lighting.
Photo of a contemporary courtyard terrace in London with feature lighting.
Krueger ArchitectsUnlimited Style Photography
This is an example of a small contemporary back patio in Los Angeles with a fire feature and a pergola.
This is an example of a small contemporary back patio in Los Angeles with a fire feature and a pergola.
Boyce Design + BuildThe upper level of this gorgeous Trex deck is the central entertaining and dining space and includes a beautiful concrete fire table and a custom cedar bench that floats over the deck. Light brown custom cedar screen walls provide privacy along the landscaped terrace and compliment the warm hues of the decking. Clean, modern light fixtures are also present in the deck steps, along the deck perimeter, and throughout the landscape making the space well-defined in the evening as well as the daytime.
Architect Your HomeThis is an example of a medium sized contemporary patio in London with a bbq area.
David Thorne Landscape ArchitectMarion Brenner Photography
Photo of a large contemporary front patio steps in San Francisco with tiled flooring and no cover.
Photo of a large contemporary front patio steps in San Francisco with tiled flooring and no cover.
Bates Building CompanyRear deck patio and above ground swimming pool
Inspiration for a large contemporary back rectangular above ground swimming pool in San Diego with decking.
Inspiration for a large contemporary back rectangular above ground swimming pool in San Diego with decking.
Barbara Samitier GardensAlexandra Davies Photography
Large contemporary back patio in London with concrete paving and no cover.
Large contemporary back patio in London with concrete paving and no cover.
Winston Fayer Landscape DesignThe backyard is small and uninviting until we transformed it into a comfortable and functional area for entertaining
This is an example of a small contemporary back private full sun garden in New York.
This is an example of a small contemporary back private full sun garden in New York.
Nansemond Precast ConcreteTraditional Style Fire Feature - the Prescott Fire Pit - using Techo-Bloc's Prescott wall & Piedimonte cap.
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary back patio in Other with a fire feature, natural stone paving and no cover.
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary back patio in Other with a fire feature, natural stone paving and no cover.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignThis 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.
Emma O'Connell Garden DesignBespoke wooden circular table and bench built in to retaining wall with cantilevered metal steps.
Design ideas for a small contemporary back patio steps in London.
Design ideas for a small contemporary back patio steps in London.
Artistic Concrete SurfacesLindsey Denny
This is an example of a large contemporary back patio in Kansas City with a fire feature, stamped concrete and a roof extension.
This is an example of a large contemporary back patio in Kansas City with a fire feature, stamped concrete and a roof extension.
Eden Garden DesignStriking Texas native botanical design with local river rock top dressing. Photographer: Greg Thomas, http://optphotography.com/
Tellurian ConstructionDonny Mays Photography
Inspiration for a large contemporary back full sun garden in Portland with natural stone paving.
Inspiration for a large contemporary back full sun garden in Portland with natural stone paving.
BOXHILLMatt Vacca
This is an example of a large contemporary back rectangular infinity hot tub in Phoenix with decomposed granite.
This is an example of a large contemporary back rectangular infinity hot tub in Phoenix with decomposed granite.
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