There are many elements that come together to make up your landscaping design. One of the most important pieces to this intricate puzzle is the hardscaping. It plays an integral role in the overall functionality and flow of your landscape design but is often overlooked. Many homeowners don’t fully understand the importance of hardscaping as they make plans for their property. Showplace Lawns is here to share some of the important roles that hardscaping play in your landscape design and why it should be carefully thought out in the planning process.
Hardscaping Defines Spaces
There are many elements in hardscaping that do wonders to define the different areas in your outdoor space. Whether you are using a built in bench to create seating around a firepit, a retaining wall or pergola to define dining areas or walkways to create borders and paths for your guests to get from one place to another; hardscaping helps to highlight features.
Hardscapes Provide Privacy & Shade
If you have an area in your outdoor space that has too much sunlight to allow you to enjoy it during the heat of the summer, you can choose to have different hardscape applications provide an excellent amount of shade for you. Whether you have chosen a pergola, trellis, stone wall or covered patio, they all create shade as well as provide security simultaneously.
Hardscaping to Fix an Uneven Backyard
If your home has been built on an uneven lot, you can solve the problem with the right hardscape design. You can solve the problem a number of different ways including: tiered patios, retaining walls, stone stairs and paths to help your lot seem more level and make the space useable.
Expand Your Outdoor Living Space
You can extend your living space outside using hardscape design as well. You can create an outdoor kitchen, outdoor sitting area and fire pits/pizza ovens that will allow you to entertain guests outside as well as in. Who says that you have to admire your landscaping from inside your house? When you incorporate hardscaping, you and your guests will be able to enjoy fresh air and nature as well as good conversation.
Lower Maintenance Landscaping
For those that don’t appreciate a lot of yardwork, hardscaping is one way to reduce the amount of maintenance that you need to do to keep up with your yard. You don’t have to mow, weed or water your hardscaping, which makes it the perfect addition to any low maintenance landscape design.
Increases Curb Appeal
When the hardscaping incorporated in your landscape design is well thought out, you will see what a big difference it makes in the overall appearance of your home. Studies have shown that the right hardscape design is proven to boost the curb appeal of your home as well as its value.
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If you are looking for ways to incorporate more hardscaping into your landscape design, the experts at Showplace Lawns can help. Call us today!
