Your patio should be the focus of your Belmont, MA, and Lexington landscape—after all, it is the outdoor living room where you love to relax. These landscape design ideas will focus the attention on your patio and enhance the beauty.
Start with an Amazing Patio
If you already have an amazing patio, then you are in luck. If you don’t, you are also in luck because a landscape professional can design and build the patio of your dreams. They can look at your available space and plan the perfect patio that functions in all the ways you need.
There are unlimited colors, sizes, and shapes of the patio pavers that allow you to mix them for a custom patio space. Match dark pavers to your dark exterior paint and add light colored pavers as a design or banding to create contrast. If your home has an urban look with glass and steel, echo those tones in your patio with sleek, geometric patio pavers. Whatever you have in mind, they can do it.
Incorporate a Built-in Banquette
When dining outside, having a built-in banquette with a table that is the exact size of the seating space can give you an immediate spot to eat take-out pizza with the family or for a special dinner with friends.
Built of wall stone in a complementary hue to the patio pavers, the banquette could have one side at the edge of the patio to mimic the alternate side as a retaining wall. Topped with a flat stone like granite or flagstone, when the weather gets too cold to enjoy outdoor meals, all you have to do is take the table, free-standing chairs, and the cushions for the built-in bench indoors until the warm weather returns once more.
Add a Water Feature
Your landscape professional can give you the full sensory experience with a tiered water fountain at the other end of the patio. Constructed of wall stone in three levels, the recirculating water spills over the tiers to add the gentle sounds of falling water to your patio and landscape.
This water feature is virtually maintenance-free except when the filter needs to be cleaned. Otherwise, the water cycles around and around for a delightful addition to your patio.
Retaining Wall
When you incorporate a retaining wall, this can increase the intimacy and privacy of your amazing patio. A wall can be especially helpful when you have close neighbors but want some seclusion when you dine al fresco or decide to finish some work on the patio.
Because a retaining wall can be different heights for more privacy on one side than the other, you can discuss with your landscaper the exact dimensions you prefer. A wall is topped with a flat stone for additional seating for a larger group and it can double as more serving space for drinks and snacks when you need it.
Landscape Lighting
Employing landscape lighting to shine on the patio after dark can be the bow on the package. Your landscaper can add discreet lighting to the landscaped space around the perimeter of the patio for a soft glow over the surface. Lighting hidden underneath the lip of the retaining wall can lend some light as can spotlights mounted on the house to shine on your patio and yard.
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