Sep

21

2009

Outdoor Fire Pits and Kitchens With a Unique Style

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Living in an area that offers sunshine and warm weather on a year around basis, your patio, and yard becomes a large part of your living area. Having a kitchen within arm’s reach only makes sense when most of your time is spent outdoors. When the nights turn cool, a fire pit adds warmth and comfort while enjoying the natural elements.

Choosing a Design

New designs have emerged within the past ten years that coordinate your pool and patio into an entirely balanced scene with natural, durable materials to create an ambience of your outdoor property. Depending on the layout of your pool and patio, different sized semi-enclosed structures can be constructed to maintain the unification of existing landscaping. Freestanding framework or extensions of your home are ideas to consider. If you do entertaining on a regular basis, long sleek tables can be incorporated in your project where guests can relax and enjoy good company.

Small Backyard Areas

For limited space, an extended kitchen immediately placed outside of your home’s back door may be your best option. Utilizing space, an area as small as 8′ x 6′ can dramatically change the appearance of your patio and can include an enclosed grill, refrigerator, cabinets and counter space for meal preparation. An overhead ceiling fan with light can provide moving air and add illumination for nighttime cooking. A freestanding fire pit can be purchased in all types of shapes and sizes, perfect for a small corner with a couple of seats and plants.

Take Advantage of Nature and Pool Surrounds

Stone travertine patios and pavers add elegance to a poolside area and can easily be expanded to be included in armadas and pergolas with columns blended in with matching stone. Pits add dramatic effect especially when indirect lighting is used on steps and walls. Plants are important in bringing nature inside of your semi-enclosed room and keeping with the theme. A built-in fire pit in one of the enclosure walls can be enjoyed inside or out. You may want to stay with the shape of your pool or the design of your home and a unique design can bring a kitchen and fire pit together as if they were part of your home when you first moved in.

Consult with a Designer

Onsite consultation is a must in achieving your desired results. Sometimes it is difficult to put into words what you want your outdoor paradise to say. A specialist in outdoor landscaping and design can take your ideas and turn into a 2D or 3D rendition so you are positively sure that you are talking the same language. BBQ’s, fireplace and all features stand out and give you the exact scene that you can expect. You may need to see several different suggestions to come to a decision and with all of the different varieties of stone, cabinets, and unique fire pit ideas, give yourself plenty of time to mull over what is just right for your taste.

Today, Unique Landscapes is known for it’s ability to handle all aspects of outdoor construction – from outdoor firepits to retaining walls & Phoenix swimming pools. Although landscaping in Phoenix is still a large part of what we do – our clients utilize our expertise for complete backyard landscape and pool designs. From simple to extreme – If you can dream it, we can design and engineer a way to built it – and also make sure it lasts!

Nov

05

2008

Front Yard Landscaping

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Category : Landscaping

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Having a low maintenance front yard is the goal of many people. You can get easy to manage front yard landscaping done by any of the professional landscapers in your area or you can do it yourself. Either way you can have front yard landscaping done that will take minimal work to keep looking fantastic all year round. If you are going to get a professional in to do your front yard landscaping though, be sure to tell him that this is your over all goal, that you want to have a yard that will not take a lot of work to keep up.

If you have less grass in your front yard landscaping then you will cut out a lot of maintenance time right there. Mowing the lawn can take up a lot of time and energy so keeping the grass to a minimum is a great way to save on work. Talk to the front yard landscaping expert about alternative that you can use to keep your yard look good with little lawn area.

Some people choose to use clover instead of grass. Using a clover lawn in your front yard landscaping is a good idea because it will save you money and time. You will not have to mow it very often at all and a clover lawn is even good for front yard landscaping in area that is prone to droughts. They do well virtually everywhere. And best of all for those who want to get out there and enjoy their front yard landscaping, bugs hate clover.

Watering the yard can be a big hassle as well. That is why many people incorporate automatic irrigation systems into their front yard landscaping designs these days. This can save you tons of time and money. This is one of the easiest ways for you to keep your yard looking healthy and well watered during the hotter months of the year. No more hooking up the sprinkler or having to drag out the hose. You can get a professional to install one of these systems for your front yard landscaping design quickly and easily or you can get a kit and do it yourself. I would recommend getting in a professional however, unless you have experience with this kind of thing. If you were to cause a leak then you could face some flooding and rotting and neither of these is going to do anything for your front yard landscaping, do you know what I mean?