Lake Front Country Estate Outdoor Living, designed by Tom Markalunas, built by Resort Custom Homes. Photography by Rachael Boling.
他の地域にあるラグジュアリーな広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (天然石敷き、張り出し屋根) の写真

シカゴにある高級な小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (ファイヤーピット、天然石敷き、パーゴラ) の写真

Beautiful outdoor kitchen complete with granite counter tops and stylized cabinets.
マイアミにあるお手頃価格の広いトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (アウトドアキッチン、天然石敷き、ガゼボ・カバナ) の写真

This Cobble Hill, Brooklyn backyard features an ipe fence and deck, sod, a bluestone patio, and a stepping stone path surrounded by Mexican beach stones. Furnishings include black outdoor lounge chairs and blue dining chairs. Plantings include junipers, grasses, euonymus, and lavendar highlighted by low-voltage landscape lighting. Read more about our projects at www.amberfreda.com.

Photographer: Roger Foley
ワシントンD.C.にあるトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (天然石敷き、日よけなし、屋外暖炉) の写真

ロンドンにある小さな地中海スタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (天然石敷き、パーゴラ) の写真

ロサンゼルスにあるお手頃価格の中くらいなビーチスタイルのおしゃれな前庭のテラス (天然石敷き、日よけなし) の写真

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.

The woodland mulch path provides a transition from space to space and culminates at a recessed bluestone fire-pit surrounded by a 2¼-inch thick irregular bluestone tight-jointed seating area dotted with flower containers. The custom-made copper cover protects the fire pit when not in use.

シアトルにある中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (ファイヤーピット、ガゼボ・カバナ、天然石敷き) の写真

ナッシュビルにあるラグジュアリーな広いカントリー風のおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (天然石敷き、アウトドアキッチン、張り出し屋根) の写真

オレンジカウンティにある地中海スタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (アウトドアキッチン、天然石敷き、パーゴラ) の写真

A covered outdoor kitchen, complete with streamlined aluminum outdoor cabinets, gray concrete countertops, custom vent hood, built in grill, sink, storage and Big Green Egg .

リッチモンドにある高級な中くらいなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (屋外暖炉、天然石敷き) の写真

ソルトレイクシティにある広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭のテラス (日よけなし、ファイヤーピット、天然石敷き) の写真

Incorporating the homeowners' love of hills, mountains, and water, this grand fireplace patio would be at home in a Colorado ski resort. The unique firebox border was created from Montana stone and evokes a mountain range. Large format Bluestone pavers bring the steely blue waters of Great Lakes and mountain streams into this unique backyard patio.

Jeroni Ontiveros
他の地域にあるお手頃価格の広い地中海スタイルのおしゃれな横庭のテラス (アウトドアキッチン、天然石敷き、日よけなし) の写真

Deep Blue® sandblasted pavers create a relaxing side patio for the family to gather and enjoy each other's company. The natural whites and gray of the stone compliment the natural elements of the area, as well as the multi-color outdoor fireplace.

For this contemporary, Japanese-style residence sitting high on a hill in southern Vermont, JMMDS created a simple, clean-lined design using stone pavers, retaining walls, and geometric beds to define the area around the house. The house is composed of two long offset barn buildings with eaves that are joined in the middle around an exterior stone courtyard. JMMDS’s design holds up the steep surrounding slopes with a long stone retaining wall bordering a rectangular quartzite terrace with a beautiful view out to the surrounding landscape. The wall encloses a level grass shelf around the house; outside the wall, less manicured turf drops away quickly down the slope. Ledges on the hillside that parallels the house are exposed as an asset. On the entry side of the house, JMMDS designed a wall that retains the slope between garage and house, accessed by a set of broad stone steps and linear pavers that take a visitor straight to the front door. Plantings in geometric beds surround more quartzite pavers that form a terrace for the guest wing of the house. The drip space under the eaves is filled with black washed river stone. Photo: Scott Wunderle