Outdoor Garden Seating

Can Exterior Worlds design gardens that are more than beautiful places to look at?
Yes. We specialize in building gardens that work as seating and gathering place for outdoor events and family entertainment.

What styles of gardens support seating?
Outdoor garden seating can be created in any style of garden. It is not so much the style of garden you need to think about. It is the number of people that the space we are developing is supposed to support.

Why is outdoor garden seating so important to Houston landscape design?
Houston landscape design is the heart and soul of Houston outdoor living. It is all about the emotions you create for people. Beautiful gardens are essential elements of the outdoor experience. Much of what people will take with them in the form of memories will be generated while they are sitting in the garden.

Therefore, it is very important for us to think about where people are going to sit and what they are going to be looking at. How people enter the garden and exit to other zones of interest is also very important. No one can enjoy themselves if they feel cramped coming and going. Transit areas to and from the garden are also needed to keep people’s feet dry and to avoid safety issues like trip hazards.
Is this a small yard, big yard, or any yard motif?
Exterior Worlds can design superior outdoor garden seating in any Houston yard of any size. Even a small lot with a curved linear pathway can have a garden area and garden seating placed along its edge.

Does this ever tie in with water elements like pools, fountains?
Yes. Outdoor garden seating is often developed near a number of outdoor water elements. The most obvious is a custom swimming pool. Because it is very common to install gardens near pool patios, we can often create seating areas in the garden itself to function as an alternative to patio/poolside seating.

Garden seating in front of a lighted fountain is also a popular motif for both small and large back yard landscapes. Lighted fountains provide special focal points for ambience and conversation and contribute a very unique, multi-dimensional presence to the softscape surrounding the gathering area.

Is this part of outdoor room design, and if so, how?
In a very loose sense of the term outdoor room design, we might can call this form a very rudimentary type of outdoor room. However, we want only the garden itself to create the sense of intimacy and enclosure. True outdoor room design involves the construction of either organic or inorganic wall elements, or sometimes ceilings in the forms of literal outdoor buildings.