Custom Patio Blog

While manicured and landscaped outdoor areas look magazine-worthy, they just sometimes look too generic and fails to pop out and raise your curb appeal. So with this article, we give you tips on how to create a unique patio area that’ll make sure your patio will be the envy of the neighborhood!

Launch the Waterworks

Now you don’t have to carve out a huge part of your yard for a pond. With a twist, fashion your drainage system into a dry creek bed, set up a small lotus pond or put a fountain that’s fit for the size of your yard. A burbling water feature will not only make your patio prettier, it’ll also introduce a whole new ambiance of calmness to your outdoors.

Sassy Side Yards

Usually overlooked, style your side yard and give it the ceremonious treatment it deserves. While it’s a favorite storage area for all the stuff you do not use regularly, don’t just dump everything in it. Nifty storage spaces like floating shelves or seating containers do not only store your stuff neatly; it also improves the look of your side yard.

Centerpiece of the Patio

If you’re at a loss at how to create an original look for your patio, start by picking a fabulous centerpiece you’re sure will catch everyone’s attention. Now with their eyes locked in, it becomes easier for you to work on the surrounding areas with your centerpiece properly placed and identified. Now it’s up to you whether to create a harmonious theme based on the centerpiece or introduce a medley of eclectic pieces to support your centerpiece.

After the festive celebrations, you might find yourself in a rut over starting all over again. But before your garden wilt and lose its shine, get back your gardening groove with these tips and tricks!

Inspire yourself with look books.

It’s easy to go into action when we have a concrete picture of what the end product we want looks like. Thus, to inspire yourself to don on the gardening gloves and boots and get your hands dirty again, look at pictures of garden in full bloom and imagine yours looking like that. From the dry and weather-beaten garden to a lively and Monet-inspired outdoor garden, be a gardener on a mission to bring the loveliness back!

Go on a day tour to botanical gardens and plant nurseries.

A simple day tour can jumpstart your gardening gears into action. Not only will you itch to get back to your garden once again, you’ll also get brand new ideas on the latest trends and interesting plants. Aside from that, you’ll also be able to see a plant in its actual size, along with plants it can thrive with. This makes it easier for you to plan and decide whether it can easily assimilate in your own garden.

Get the best deal for your seeds.

Nowadays, the internet is teeming with gardening resource and seed bank information. Scour for the best deal and populate your garden without having too much input cost.

Grab a chance for a free landscape consultation.

Aside from seed banks, you can also tinker with your seminal gardening plans by talking it over with the experts who have years of experience crafting artfully designed garden and landscapes. Capitalize on their expertise and get a free estimate too when you call us today!

Whether you’re putting a pergola for a source of shade or an architectural structure for your garden. Here are some pergola adaptations that work best with one’s home.

Smooth Transition

If you have a deck in your outdoors, smoothen the transition for one’s eye by installing a pergola to blur the boundary of your home’s exterior. Instead of installing a solid roofline and making your deck feel enclosed, give it a refreshing take by using a pergola that seamlessly meshes the indoors and outdoors.

Outdoor Room

Outdoor rooms may cost more and look stuffy with concrete walls and all. But by installing a pergola allows for optional walls like trellises make for a charming and idyllic outdoor room without the stuffiness.

Deck the Walls

While most homes’ exteriors are only comprised with well-painted walls, putting simplified pergolas. Adorning it with climbing flowering plants creates interest to an otherwise boring façade.

Hybrid Pergola

While pergolas are usually designed as a standing structure with a horizontal orientation, there are also hybrid pergolas which are fashioned like an arbor. Whether as an archway or a whimsy take on the standard pergola structure, play a little with your pergola design and put an intriguing twist on it.

Pergola as a Conduit Structure

If installed as a freestanding structure, a pergola act as a pathway cover from one point of your garden to another. Keep the idyllic ambiance in continuity by providing a lovely canopy for your pathway.

With these ideas, we hope we’ve inspired you into looking at pergolas as versatile structures. From window accents to pathway covers, a pergola will definitely do wonders for your home. If you need further expert advice on where and how to install a pergola in your home, contact us today and get a free home estimate!

When it comes to your home remodeling projects, more often than not the interiors reign first and supreme as opposed to your outdoors. However, in this article we’re going to tackle how outdoor remodeling can increase both your curb appeal and real estate value.

First Door Impressions Last

You might think so much of your front door but it actually influences a lot about what outsiders perceive about your home. Whether it’s a simple maintenance procedure or an ultimate door replacement, having it fixed up can have as much 85.6% return on your investment.

Deck Addition

A deck added does not only enhance your outdoor living status, it also adds up precious living space to your home. So without spending too much, your home is slightly bigger. Decorate it the right way and you have an entirely new room to add to the number of rooms. Whether as an outdoor living area, an entertainment lounge or an outdoor kitchen, your return on investment is sure to climb up for that one extra room.

Curb Appeal

By taking care of your outdoors, it tells neighbors and potential buyers that you also take care of your indoors. Now, there’s no need for a highly tailored and manicured lawn and garden. A simple trim on bushes that may have grown a little too wild for your liking, snipping off dead branches and plants, and re-planting some will easily give your home’s exteriors a facelift. Clean your walkway by pressure-washing it and add to the curb appeal. Curb appeal does not stop on your walkway. Make sure to also inspect that paint on your house’s façade and address the chipped up parts.

This might be three small home improvement projects but the returns on your investment are significant. Not only do you get to be a street favorite in terms of house façades, you also get to keep your spending directly back to increasing your real estate value.

One can say it is easier to work with a huge space when it comes to your outdoors as you can always simply plug in landscaping plants in the space. However, it becomes so much harder when one has to work with a definite set space. With that in mind, we listed 5 unique objects for outdoor design especially when one has limited space.

Bed Mattress Frame

For those seeking to conserve precious outdoor space for their limited patio, a bed mattress may not seem the most obvious choice to put. However, with a little recycling, you can turn your spring mattress frame into a vertical frame for your vines and trellises. Aside from working as the plant support, it can also serve as a privacy screen.

Mirror

Given the limited space of your patio, mirrors will easily create an illusion of a wider outdoor space, mirroring the greens and expanding the sense of calm in your small patio.

Don’t limit yourself to simply hanging a mirror. Other ways of creating a mirror illusion is to opt for patio surfaces and furniture that reflect, creating a more spacious look for your outdoors.

Rug

A rug of the proportionate size relative to your outdoor space lends a sense of spaciousness. If laid out the right way, the rug distracts the vision and makes the outdoor space look bigger than it actually is.

Clear Cabinet

Acting as an appropriate storage for your potted plants, you can customize it to allow for the taller growing plants to grow comfortably within the cabinet. Creating shelves at different levels easily gives your plants the storage space they need. It also clears up space which would have otherwise been lost to the pots crowding your limited space.

Loft Garden

If you have limited lot space, create more space by installing a loft area. You can either haul up your garden in pots or use a clear surface for flooring, letting sunlight pass through and convert the space below into a makeshift greenhouse.