Keep a consistent palette
To ensure that your hardscaping fits seamlessly into the architecture of your house (if this is your goal), concentrate on the use of stone or materials with a similar color or sound. Here the warm wooden entrance from designer Nick Olsen flows perfectly to the Taupe-Slabbed levels.
Choose similar stones
In order to create seamless integration between the covered terrace and the pool of this Palm Beach, designer Ashley Sharpe from Sharpe Development and Design used the same stone type in the hardcaping of this back yard. Smaller panels were used between the two rooms to facilitate the transition.
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Cover it in ivy
The further your outdoor or privacy is covered in your outdoor area, you should plant a follow-up ivy or another high-quality vine. This can integrate your space with the natural environment and add some patina. Just take a look at the entrance to this guest house, a “kitchen house” in Charleston, South Carolina, 1770s. Designer Cameron Schwabenton Ivy-Adorned Update is a really enchanting reception.
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Falsifying carpets
In this free -standing covered terrace, the designer David Godshall uses the tile on the surface to create the appearance of a carpet. This creates a more deliberate collection room without the necessary maintenance or cleaning routines.
Lead to a focus
Just like interiors, the design requires an ground element or a center of gravity outdoors so that it feels. In the house of Designer Hadas Dembo in the state of New York, the simple Stone Poolside Hardscaping leads into this dandruff, decorated with ancient ceramics.
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Create privacy
If your garden area is wide open, opt for additional privacy by installing awnings and curtains to disassemble your hard caping into zones. In this California house designed by Mark D. Sikes, the dining area remains separated from the pool and the sound carriers without needing walls.
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Correspond to the setting
This southern California pool terrace honors the natural environment with terracotta bricks that dress out the entertaining area. “The view of the Santa Monica Mountains dominates the horizon,” says designer Tammy Randall Wood about her family's backyard. Warm tones complete the design palette and complement the terracotta bricks and the earthy tones of the mountains.
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Leave space
This backyard terrace by designer Javier Burkle in Dallas uses the lush lawn. Instead of breaking the grass completely, square stone paving stones were placed diagonally, with the grass left in between. This enables a more natural transition between hard caping and landscape design.
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Use the room you have
A terrace does not have to make itself extensive or take most of its outdoor area. If you want to prioritize Greenspace, opt for a smaller hardscaping area, as Burkle did with its Dallas -Hinterhof.
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Break the color
Hardcaping can often be suitable for A very Neutral color palette. Let Burkles Dallas -Hinterhof be inspired to compensate for the shades of gray, beige and browns and paint their pergola. A dramatic black color is helpful to break the neutral tones.
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Create cohesion
In this back yard in Atlanta with several entertaining areas, designer Charlotte Lucas used the same stone paving stones to help the areas feel united and not be separate. Red strips give contrast to the cool material.
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Keep it minimally
Sometimes hard caping can distract from the beauty of its natural environment. In the home of Maxwell Ryan, the founder of apartment therapy, the simple pool frame enables the garden as it can enjoy for warm weather.
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Try it with a mosaic
For a rustic attitude of traditional hardscaping, choose a mosaic style with a naturally cut stone. This fits perfectly with designer Amanda Reynal's historical home in the Catskills.
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Add an arch
In order to imitate more natural forms and shapes, this door is not a typical rectangle. In designer Brooke Davenports Haus in Los Angeles, an outdoor sheet added an optimized feeling.
Stay near home
If the proximity to your living room or kitchen is of the greatest importance for your entertaining methods, keep your hard caping at the side of your house. Here a simple concrete terrace by designer Madeline Stuart is made comfortable by adding a shadow shield cover.
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Attach your garden to a wall
If you prefer a garden that bursts with plants but needs the privacy or stability of a retaining wall, you should install your grids directly into the stone, as the landscape architect Janice Parker did here.
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Carve
For a transition that is as simple for your eyes as under your feet, you found your stone paving stones with bushes and more grass. Parker did that here, and it ensures that no sticky mulch or gravel is hindered on your sidewalk.
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Add heat
Let Parker inspire you, which has expanded this area of gravel hard caping with a stone fireplace. Now this outdoor area is almost all seasons!
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Include water
Adding a water function such as this spa terrace of Parker can carry out your hard caping with a calm and soothing energy, which is advantageous for both you and for the wildlife of your garden (birds and beetles). Just make sure that the water does not stagnate to avoid seasonal pests.
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Frame with grasses
Instead of leaving this stone staircase, there are rows of decorative graves in this garden of Parker it contain it more naturally into the existing landscape. The raw stairs also help to ensure that the stones never look out of place.
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