Stone features can enhance your enjoyment spent outdoors. With the late-summer season comes the urge to find time by the pool and grilling on the patio with friends and family. Your pool and patio areas can be more exciting with added luxuries that don’t have to be found only at resorts. In fact, more people are learning to incorporate resort luxuries into their own outdoor spaces.

Here are some ideas for adding stone features that can make your outdoor space more enjoyable.

Expand your patio for more entertainment

Get ready for entertaining outside. If you have a small concrete patio space, you have limitations and your area might not be that appealing. You’ll be hip when you replace the concrete pad with a new surface of flagstone. This is the perfect surface material to bring beauty and function to your space. The various colors and patterns provide options that are appealing. Our Sequatchie Gray and Smokey Mountain flagstones are two popular varieties we offer. The luxury of a flagstone patio area can give you renewed energy to decorate with tables and chairs that are perfect for entertaining.

Build a beautiful waterfall

There is something exotic about having a waterfall in your backyard! You can incorporate a gorgeous stone veneer feature with your existing pool or design a pond with a waterfall in your garden. There are an amazing number of stone veneer products to choose from that will make your waterfall unique. Some of our favorite stone veneers for waterfalls are Thick Veneer Fieldstone or Riverrock.

Create a walkway to your patio

Sometimes you might prefer that your guests use a side entrance compared to going through your home when you entertain in the backyard. Entice your guests toward the side entrance with a beautiful walkway of flagstone or stepping stones. Mix in some gravel between the flagstone or create an edging with stacked drystone to add more detail. If you have a slope, think of the beauty that our Bluestone Cut Pattern would look with bluestone steppers for an elegant entrance. Your walkway doesn’t have to be a straight route. Planting shrubs and flowers along an indirect route provides interest that helps guests enjoy the walk.

Add in a cozy fireplace or fire pit

Imagine your family and friends hanging out together by a warm fireplace or fire pit in your backyard. At Fieldstone Center, we have premade fire pit kits that are easy to install. If you prefer, choose from our variety of stone veneer products to build a unique fire pit or fireplace that will soon be a favorite area for entertaining. Some stone veneer products that would look great in a fireplace are Ashlar Square Fieldstone and Elberton Granite Rubble.

Finding time to use your outdoor space is easier when you have luxuries that create a paradise in your backyard. Fieldstone Center is available to assist you with selecting the best stone products for your new project. Contact us at 770-385-7708 for more information and assistance.

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Now that the cooler weather has arrived, you might be thinking about getting outside to work on a new landscaping project. The fall season is a great time to plant trees, shrubs and bulbs and do other projects on your property. It’s also a great time to add stone features and luxuries. Whether for practical use or to increase your enjoyment for when you are ready to kick back and relax, there are many ways you can use stone in your landscape.

4 Ideas for Landscaping with Stone

Around trees and plant beds

While you are doing fall chores and getting your landscape ready to look beautiful come spring, add stone around your trees, shrubs and bulbs, and in flower beds. Decorative gravel comes in many varieties of size, shapes and color blends for beautiful beds. It is a great alternative to mulch. It helps reduce maintenance so you won’t need to touch it up for years. It also can be used as borders around plant beds where it will help keep dirt and debris in place during the upcoming wet winter weather. Plus, gravel is slightly better for weed control than mulch. Now that the weeds are going dormant, the gravel will help give a head start to weed control in the spring.

Along walkways and patios

If you are tired of trying to grow grass or plants in a shaded, hard-to-grow area of your yard, it might be time for a new strategy. Since what is left of the grass or plants are going dormant, the area may look even more barren. Revise your strategy by converting these bare areas to usable walkways or patios. Flagstone is a nice option to use with its abundant color palate and unlimited patterns. You are sure to find the right match that fits your style and converts the space to one more useful and requiring less maintenance.

As an added luxury feature

Take your backyard to another level by creating an outdoor haven with stone luxuries that will give you much satisfaction and enjoyment for years to come. Use drystack stone or fieldstone to build a fire pit seating area where friends and family can hang out after a long fall day. Or construct a fireplace and outdoor kitchen for the ultimate relaxation spot.

To enhance design features

Working outside can be exhilarating when the leaves change color and a light breeze is in the air. Features in your landscape design can further exhilarate the senses. Imagine a stone waterfall or large rocks placed around a small pond with a few stone benches. Stone also can enhance your home’s architectural features when you use them to add a façade or columns.

With the versatility and ease of working with stone, there are an unlimited number of ways to add it in your landscape. Get more ideas by perusing our online gallery. For more information and to learn about our wide selection of stone, contact us at (770) 385-7708.

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