Brown Patio Design Ideas with Natural Stone Pavers

Natural Waterfall & Swimming Pool
Natural Waterfall & Swimming Pool
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignExterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
A Memorial area family commissioned us to create a natural swimming pool in their back yard. The family already had a standard pool on premises, but it was isolated in an area of the yard not particularly suited to seating guests or hosting get-togethers. What they wanted was a second, natural swimming pool built that would serve as the hub of a new home outdoor entertainment area consisting of a new stone patio, comfortable outdoor seating, and a fire pit. They wanted to create something unique that would preserve as much of the natural features of the landscape as possible, but that would also be completely safe and fully functional as a swimming pool. We decided to design this new landscaping plan around a pre-existent waterfall that was already on the property. This feature was too attractive to ignore, and provided the ideal anchor point for a new gathering area. The fountain had been designed to mimic a natural waterfall, with stones laid on top of one another in such a way as to look like a mountain cliff where water spontaneously springs from the top and cascades down the rocks. At first glance, many would miss the opportunity that such a structure provides; assuming that a fountain designed like a cliff would have to be completely replaced to install a natural swimming pool. Our landscaping designers, however, came up with a landscape plan to transform one archetypal form into the other by simply adding to what was already there. At the base of the rocks we dug a basin. This basin was oblong in shape and varied in degrees of depth ranging from a few inches on the end to five feet in the middle. We directed the flow of the water toward one end of the basin, so that it flowed into the depression and created a swimming pool at the base of the rocks. This was easy to accomplish because the fountain lay parallel to the top of a natural ravine located toward the back of the property, so water flow was maintained by gravity. This had the secondary effect of creating a new natural aesthetic. The addition of the basin transformed the fountain’s appearance to look more like a cliff you would see in a river, where the elevation suddenly drops, and water rushes over a series of rocks into a deeper pool below. Children and guests swimming in this new structure could actually imagine themselves in a Rocky Mountain River. We then heated the swimming pool so it could be enjoyed in the winter as well as the summer, and we also lit the pool using two types of luminaries for complimentary effects. For vegetation, we used mercury vapor down lights to backlight surrounding trees and to bring out the green color of foliage in and around the top of the rocks. For the brown color of the rocks themselves, and to create a sparkling luminance rising up and out of the water, we installed incandescent, underwater up lights. The lights were GFIC protected to make the natural swimming pool shock proof and safe for human use.
Bureaux Paris
Bureaux Paris
Juliette BretonJuliette Breton
Un salon au style scandinave et contemporain, bibliothèque sur mesure peinte dans un camaïeu de bleus pour donner de la profondeur. Un panneau en varian, matério bio à base de lin, translucide, laisse passer la lumière tout en séparant l'espace. Mobilier contemporain, canapé et pouf en velours, coussins tableaux, table basse en métal et marbre vert, tapis berbère, suspensions en laiton.
Dallas ranch Outdoor remodel
Dallas ranch Outdoor remodel
NOMI - Luxury Bathroom RemodelNOMI - Luxury Bathroom Remodel
This outdoor bar is perfect for a cocktail afternoon with your friends! Fully equipped bar with stainless steel sink (it will be much easier for you to handle ice now :) faucet, drawers and many more fixture. The best way to entertain.
Garden paving
Garden paving
Positive Garden LtdPositive Garden Ltd
Garden preparation for the property market including re-paving and new paving at new levels, forming of new planting beds, new trellis installation, railway sleeper reconditioning and drainage system improvement.
A Mediterranean-style home embraces outdoor living in Atlanta, Georgia
A Mediterranean-style home embraces outdoor living in Atlanta, Georgia
Phantom ScreensPhantom Screens
A private residence in Atlanta, Georgia. Retractable motorized screens by Phantom Screens are recessed into the arches of the covered patio, creating an enclosed outdoor living space when in use. Delivering protection from the sun and the bugs, the screens maintain connectivity to the outdoors. Photo credit: Phantom Screens
A Patio Where Linear Meets Natural
A Patio Where Linear Meets Natural
Merrifield Garden CenterMerrifield Garden Center
Stone slabs then mortared stone on concrete form a staircase within boulder walls. Together they terrace a significant slope. Design and installation by Merrifield Garden Center. Photo: Wayne Boyland.

Brown Patio Design Ideas with Natural Stone Pavers

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