Glass Garden Walls

If you are looking for a distinctive custom hardscape element to put in your landscape design, consider glass garden walls from Exterior Worlds. These adaptable structures have been gaining in popularity due to their capacity for creating attention-grabbing focal points on your property that will encourage your family and friends to enjoy the outdoors in new and interesting ways.

Our glass garden walls are constructed most often of frosted, sandblasted, clear, customized etched, or architectural, also known as specialty, glass. Because it must withstand the rigors of our climate conditions while still letting in light, your choice of glass material must be approved for outdoor use.

Glass garden walls have several benefits: to act as a windbreak, to create suntraps and, depending on the glass style chosen, to provide privacy without shutting off the dimensions of the exterior space. Today’s glass, available in a range of design options, features different surface textures that distort images, which is useful when privacy is still desired, and cellular structures that control the amount of light transmitted.

Our clients value glass walls for their ability to create rooms within rooms. This facility allows you to define spaces within your luxury landscape design without isolating one area from another. Because of this unique quality, glass as a garden wall can be a useful tool for urban landscaping, which often must contend with unusually-shaped or small spaces.

Because they strike just the right balance between openness, light and privacy, glass walls really benefit another landscaping zone—your custom pool. Architectural glass possesses decorative dimensional elements that surprise and delight with its artistic possibilities, particularly around water features.

In general, glass can have a contemporary feel to it—depending on style and design, of course—therefore, glass is a natural for modern homes and gardens. Walls made of glass are perfect accessories for a modern home garden and are especially effective when paired with a modern water fountain.

If you’ve got a possible landscaping remodeling project in mind, please note that glass walls produce a big wow factor for the money invested. With just the right design, material choice and placement, it could be the singular, spectacular element that you’ve been looking for.

All garden walls must be built using correct engineering techniques. Many governing bodies place restrictions on walls built over a certain height—for instance, regulations may require that plans for walls of two-feet tall or more must be reviewed and approved by an engineer. Exterior Worlds is known for its expertise in this area.

Once we build your glass garden wall, you face several design-conscious decisions.
Your outdoor lighting can be used to play up the glass wall. Down-lighting, up-lighting and back-lighting are placement techniques that seriously up the ante on the dramatic effect of your wall at night.

To further enhance the appeal of the wall you can place interesting varieties of plants behind it. Bamboo, palm trees, river birch and Japanese maple are all good choices that make interesting movement and shadows behind the glass.

Visit www.exteriorworlds.com for all the high-end landscape design and services offered by Exterior Worlds. In Houston, 713-827-2255.