During your landscape renovation, you will want to think about what will last long into the future. Masonry is built with time in mind, and there are many ways to incorporate it into your landscape. Consider how you like to spend your days in your outdoor living space, whether it is a fun activity, exercise, or relaxation. Here are seven ideas that incorporate masonry into a landscape design in Huntington, Long Island, NY.
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Fire Features
The warmth of the summer sun is sometimes fleeting, and you probably do not want to move the fun inside just because the sun sets or autumn arrives. By including a gorgeous masonry fire feature in your transformed outdoor living space, you will ensure there’s enough warmth, light, and sense of community to keep friends and family enjoying the outdoors together.
A fire pit is typically made from a low circular stone wall that fully encloses a wood or gas bonfire. This could be the most primal experience and probably the closest you can get to a camping feeling in your backyard.
A fire table can be perfect for outdoor gatherings. These masonry structures are typically gas- or propane-fired. A notable benefit of fire tables is they can do double duty as a fire feature/dining space on small patios.
An outdoor fireplace offers you perhaps the greatest design flexibility for a fire feature, and could help to blur the line between your patio and your living room. You can choose between wood, gas, or propane, and enjoy a huge range of design styles, from sleek ultra-modern to classic brick.
Retaining Walls
Retaining walls are designed to hold back soil as well as to add functional space to your landscape, but they can also become important design elements. They can create a physical boundary between different spaces in your backyard and offer support for outdoor lighting fixtures and flower pots. Retaining walls can be built as dry-stack (mortarless) or mortared, and you have additional choices in using natural stone, concrete block, or concrete block clad in a stone veneer. The design possibilities are nearly endless.
Outdoor Kitchen
Outdoor cooking and dining is one of the best parts of outdoor living, and beautiful masonry would add functional elegance to your outdoor kitchen. The base of your outdoor kitchen could be built of brick or stone, or manufactured stone veneer could be specifically chosen to complement the other vertical elements around your patio.
A Permeable Patio, Walkway, Pool Deck, and Driveway
The timeless aspect of quality masonry is clear when you consider that there are many plazas, walkways, and roads all over the world that are still in use after thousands of years. You can choose any style that fits your house and turn your backyard into an elegant place to entertain or relax.
To reduce excess water and ice buildup on your patio, walkway, pool deck and even driveway, use permeable pavers that will easily enable water to seep into the ground instead of collecting on the surface. Permeable pavers are available in a wide range of beautiful colors and styles to complement any design aesthetic.
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