You and your family are probably spending a lot more time in your backyard this summer. You may be thinking it’s time to make your space a bit more functional, an extension of your home, but you don’t want to lose that garden and green space feel.
Stone is a great choice for adding or completing outdoor living space for its natural colors, shapes and styles. Stone creates softer lines between structured space and green space, actually blending with gardens and lawns for a relaxing, natural feel.
Best of all, you aren’t limited in what you can create or the colors available to you, as stone provides an unlimited palette with a broad range of applications for all your landscaping projects.
Colors
Stone goes well beyond grays, tans and browns, with bursts of color in everything from crushed stone for flower beds or walkways to patio pavers extending well into your yard.
Popular this season: Create a seamless line from indoor spaces by pairing paver styles and colors with tiles and wall colors of the adjacent indoor space.
A patio built with flagstone will rarely have a straight line or square corner. Their varying shapes and sizes provide a one-of-a-kind design for your patio and an easy blending with lawn and garden areas.
Popular this season: Build a flagstone walkway through your flower or vegetable garden to create a shady path to stroll through.
Walls and steps
Stone walls and steps perfectly blend with green space by creating the most natural of usable structures. Stone steps provide access to your yard or a lower lawn and stone walls provide both a barrier for privacy and possible additional seating.
Popular this season: Build steps using coping stones for their stability and simplicity of use and choose flagstone for walls as their flat sides allow for easy stacking.
The beauty of artificial stone is its durability while perfectly imitating natural stone. Appropriate for both indoor and outdoor projects, artificial stone and stone veneer is a great choice for everything from stone walls and seating to water features.
Popular this season: Complete your outdoor kitchen with a countertop in custom patterned artificial stone that is ground or polished to a weather- and stain-proof finish.
Don’t wait another minute to design and build your backyard oasis. Contact our experts to begin planning your improved outdoor living space using custom stone products from Ohio Beauty Cut Stone.