Extend Your Home's Living Space with a Beautiful Patio: Inspiration and Ideas
Patios are an excellent way to utilize your backyard as an extension of your home. They provide a gathering space made of durable materials like stone or cement, that can endure beautifully with minimal upkeep. Moreover, they offer environmental benefits, such as reducing water consumption as compared to maintaining a lawn.
How to Incorporate Snow Storage in Your Landscape Design
When it comes to planning your dream landscape, it’s important not to forget the damage cold and dry winds, as well as the snow-laden winter season, is capable of causing on our landscapes. For instance, a sprinkler system can stop functioning as a result of prolonged cold temperatures. Similarly, plants may end up getting windburn whereas driveways and patios can sustain damages from corrosive products and plows. This is precisely why homeowners and/or property owners need to think about winterization in the design phase and protect their landscape against various kinds of damage from winter.
The Balanced Backyard
Recently, we brought our full team together for an exciting group exercise and brainstorming session to reflect on a holistic view of what makes up the best backyard that we can design and implement. Our insightful team began thinking about each element that makes a truly balanced backyard - a term we are defining as a yard that blends form, function, and purpose. We are excited to share for the first time, 8 distinct elements we identified that comprise a balanced backyard and informs our design process and or we approach every project here at RPK Landscape Architecture - our goal is to assist you with getting the most out of the space you have with these 8 synergistic and complementary elements.
Green Therapy - How you can benefit from health-promoting greenspace
As the warm summer memories begin to fade and the fall finds us slowly moving towards colder months, our thoughts continue to dwell on the importance of healthy places and spaces found outdoors. So often we hear about the benefits of things like greenspace, parks, and public spaces having an opportunity to benefit the health of ourselves and others - but what does this supposed health benefit actually mean, and how can we benefit from it?