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Creating Outdoor Living Spaces You'll Love: Ideas to Get You Started

The weather is perfect, the weekend is stretched out ahead of you, and all you want to do is kick back and enjoy a cool drink and maybe a good book in your yard. Make these moments even better with landscaping ideas that transform your front yard or backyard into the perfect outdoor living space.

 

Our Charlotte-based team of pros are experienced in a variety of landscaping, hardscaping, lawn care, and gardening needs and can help you restructure your front yard, side lot, or backyard into a welcoming outdoor area to meet your family’s unique aesthetic and needs.

 

Elements that enhance the landscape

Bringing your living areas outdoors is a great way to boost your home’s curb appeal. Projects you can tackle range from small weekend to-dos to more complex installations that may require the help of a trusted lawncare service or landscape design expert. No matter what your budget or calendar allows for, we can help you bring your dreams into reality.

  • Comfortable seating: Sink into cozy comfort with outdoor furniture that allows you to enjoy your surroundings while kicking back and relaxing. Hammocks, outdoor sections, and chaises, padded dining chairs circled around tables, and more all create pockets for conversation, eating, and catnapping.
  • Water features: Add a layer of ambiance and elegance to your outdoor areas with the sound of a bubbling fountain or the sparkle and shimmer of a garden pond. Or, build your own backyard oasis with a pool. 
  • Lighting: Keep your outdoor areas illuminated day and night with carefully planned outdoor lighting. Solar or electric, candle or oil, you can be sure your backyard spaces are safe and beautiful with landscape lighting, string lights, sconces, tiki torches and more.
  • Entertainment: Think about outdoor spaces that can support added fun—places for lawn games, tables and seating for game night, or spots to mount an outdoor television or projector for watching your favorite sports events or movie.
  • Food: Bring your kitchen outdoors and make drinks, snacks, and grill-outs easier with an outdoor setup. Consider adding an outdoor stove, grill, or pizza oven.
  • Climate control: For extra comfort, an outdoor fan and/or a heater in your outdoor areas can help extend the life of your backyard spaces. Overhead protection from the rain or sun is a boost, too.
  • Build a fire: Fire Pits and fireplaces, chimineas, and tabletop fire blows and features are all wonderful ways to bring the beauty and warmth of a cozy fire into your outdoor areas.
  • Be art-friendly: Garden sculptures, murals, garden decorations, and more can all complement the natural beauty of your outdoor areas. Commission a piece from one of the many North Carolina artists—or enlist your family to help you make something special to enjoy for years to come.
  • Embrace privacy: You can create pockets of privacy in your landscape not only with structures but by strategically planting shrubs and tall grasses or with fencing and hardscaping. 

 

Turning your plans and ideas into realities

Partnering with a landscaping pro or lawn care expert is a key part of creating a dreamy backyard outdoor living space. With the added experience and expertise of a pro, you’ll be sure more complex plans can successfully come to life. From heavy construction projects to light landscaping touches, we’re able to handle jobs large and small. And, with our state-of-the-art technology, we can explore your space’s potential and illustrate ideas and plansbefore we even break ground on your project.

 

Call us at (704) 672-5572 today, to discuss your Charlotte, NC landscaping ideas. We look forward to speaking with you and getting started on transforming your outdoor living areas.