To maximize the available space you have in your Verona, WI, landscape, multiple zones can be established to designate where your favorite outdoor living activities take place and to make the overall landscape both attractive and functional. These creative landscape design ideas can put you on the path to a more practical, lovely backyard.
Starting With Landscape Zones
A landscape designer might recommend beginning a design or refresh of the backyard by creating sections within the terrain. The number of ways you can divide the space can vary but one way to consider this concept is to imagine dividing your landscape into four sections.
Paver Patios
The section closest to the back door can become a paver patio where your outdoor furniture is placed. This can make sense because you will likely use the furniture often and want it nearby the door. Carrying food and drinks from the indoors to the outdoors can be easier, too, when the main patio seating is convenient.
Outdoor Kitchen
Another quarter area of the backyard landscape design can feature a grill station with counter space, a fridge, and a pergola overhead to keep the cook cool on sunny afternoons. it might surprise you how handy the counter space is to prepare food for grilling so you are not walking back and forth to the indoor kitchen. Another detail to include can be a warming drawer where you can keep the cooked food warm until serving time.
Fire Pit
The third section of the design can hold a fire pit for warmth and gentle light in the backyard. Placing this fire feature farther from the door can compel your guests to move farther outside to sit by the warm flames. You can opt for built-in seating with a low retaining wall that sets the fire pit apart from the other outdoor living spaces.
A Shaded Patio Area
An option for the final backyard section can be a place to lounge—a paver patio underneath the dappled shade of a wood pergola. The wood posts can sit on stone pillars to elevate them and the slats on the pergola top can be spaced to your preference for how much light you want to filter through below.
In this pergola area, you can add a hanging bed for afternoon naps or a relaxing reading spot. This can become your little oasis!
You could opt for climbing vines and roses on the pergola posts so they climb up and over the top for floral color and beauty. A pergola adds its own visual interest with the vertical design that draws the eyes upward.
Landscape Lighting
Adding strategic landscape lighting can illuminate your spaces for nighttime use. Uplighting can bring attention to your beautiful seating wall while moonlighting can bring attention to any trees in your landscape and make your overall home appear warm and inviting. Spotlighting can highlight your favorite outdoor features while pendant lighting provides a stylish effect on your pergola.
You might also like to have more light fixtures added to the house exterior where they can shine up onto the house and below on the paver patio. Task lighting that is brighter over the outdoor kitchen can provide better visibility when you are cooking there after the sun sets while LED light fixtures that sit flush on the ground around the patio edges can illuminate the surface.
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