Home Exterior Design

How do you determine what elements to incorporate into a home exterior design?
In many ways, you, the resident, determine the essence of your home exterior design. Your personal lifestyle and intentions for using your outdoor living space provide us with the basic, general guidelines necessary to get started. We also pay very close attention to the external appearance of your house and the property that surrounds it. Landscaping frames the function and form of the experience, and helps us determine where to create structures and special space for you in proportional relationship to gardens, manicured lawns, indigenous vegetation, and trees.

What are some of your more popular exterior home design elements?
Again, this is highly subjective and based on your personal lifestyle and preference. You might want to consider adding a screened-in room if you plan on hosting family gatherings outside. These rooms combine the freedom of the outdoors with the comforts of the interior. Anything from an outdoor bar to a full entertainment system can be installed in such a room, and even when the mosquitoes are thick, no one will suffer outside.

Outdoor kitchens are also very popular aspects of home exterior design. They can be created out of garden elements or hedges, or they can consist of simple, graveled areas for larger pits and smokers. One of the best things about outdoor kitchens is that they can be built virtually anywhere in the yard and blended with almost any natural feature. Arbors and gardens can surround the cooking area, and special structures can be constructed between trees to extend the shaded areas for guests. Something as simple as a bench can transform a fountain or a pond into a special gathering place. Outdoor tables can also be placed in these areas that act like outdoor dining rooms. In the evening, landscape path lights can make the entire property look larger by creating walking trails that wind through the garden and under the trees.

Also, if you have been thinking about calling a pool company or hiring a contractor to build you a patio, let us do this for you as a component of your home exterior design. Our professionals are well-versed in the lingo of subcontractors that prefer to work with a set of well-developed schematics. This offers you the additional advantage of making sure that any structures or swimming areas we contract experts to build for you blend harmoniously with the architectural and natural elements of your exterior design.

What features can you add to a yard of average size?
Any of the above elements can be proportionally added to reasonably sized yards. In fact, when installed proportionally and correctly, home exterior design professionals can install structures and create forms can create the optical illusion that a property is as large as 1 ½ to 2 times its normal size. This is very similar to the way that furniture fills a room and makes it look larger than it really is.