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The purpose of these landscape lights is to provide the appropriate level of visibility to the steps that connect the deck to the patio. We ‘hid’ two of the lights under the client’s benches that wrap around the deck and installed two path lights directly into the patio, at the same time that we built the patio. By combining these lights, we are able to cast light over the entire width of the steps.
Artistic Landscapes designed this natural stone firepit to have an opening in the ‘front’ to allow for better visibility of the fire. Based on the location of the patios and the expected seating arrangements, nearly 100% of people will be sitting facing the open side of the firepit. The steps to this patio were built from reclaimed granite, thus we installed a piece of reclaimed granite as the front threshold of this firepit.
Artistic Landscapes built this natural stone firepit within the family’s new patio. The location of the firepit was chosen as the firepit can be seen from their kitchen, family room and outdoor hot tub. There is seating, on pavers, all around the firepit.
Depending on the your preference, we may design your patio to include multiple accent rows around your patio or driveway. Attached are projects with a two accent rows of pavers. One picture shows the same paver installed next to each other and the other picture shows two pavers that are different in color and style.
One of the items to consider when designing your walkway or patio is whether or not you would like a decorative stone to accent the border of your project. The accent stone is often manufactured to the same specifications as the pavers or bricks which you use for your walkway or patio.
The goal of using accent stones is that it frames your work. Think of the border rows as your frame around your art (the main part of the walkway or patio). If you like contrasting items, then you will admire a stone that is darker than the main part of the walkway and with a different finish/texture. If that looks seems to much, then going with a border that is similar in color, or at a minimum a light color, will be best for you. We have designed walkways and patios with contrasting colors, similar colors, with multiple accent rows as well as no accent rows and they have all looked terrific. Attached are projects with a single accent row in a contrasting color, similar color and without any accent row.
We may not be planning to use our firepits as often as we did in the summer, as it may be too cold to sit around the firepit, but the stonework of a firepit still looks terrific on cold snowy days. This picture shows the look of a natural stone firepit, which we built earlier this month. We, at Artistic Landscapes, believe the stonework looks great year-round, therefor please call us at 978.317.9875 to have us build your firepit before winter. By calling now, you can enjoy the look of the stone this winter and your firepit will be ready for you to roast some marshmallows during those warm evenings coming up in the Spring.
We created a formal paver walkway that leads from the street to the front door and connected this walkway with a walkway that leads to the driveway. The rounded front steps have been there for years, thus we designed our walkway to highlight the curve of the steps by installing a dark colored (charcoal) accent paver. The charcoal colored paver was installed in a similar style as the bottom step to help highlight the steps. The natural stone finish on the Techo pavers fits in very nicely with some exposed ledge that is on the property.
This family is having us build the front walkway in 2 stages. This year, we built the walkway that connects the front door to the driveway. In the future, we will add a walkway that connects to this walkway and goes to the street.
In our goal to make this walkway, extremely functional and pleasing on the eye, we installed a large circle pattern of pavers and a wide walkway using Ideal pavers. The circle will allow for a seamless integration of the future walkway with the current walkway and the wide walkway allows us to smoothly transition from the 9′ wide front granite step down to a 4′ wide walkway by the driveway. We have accented the walkway with a granite curbing as this Caledonia granite is the same style as the front step, light post and mailbox post.
We extended the walkway around the circle, because we believe it will make a much better looking walkway once the walkway to the street is added. The outside border row helps accentuate the turns of the walkway and the circumference of the circle.
Ideal Pavers with Caledonia Granite
Ideal Pavers with an accent color as border
Our landscape lighting design included this Unique Lighting path light with a 30″ stem/riser. The importance of the height of the light fixture is that by installing the fixture at the right height, we are able to cast light on the stones that will provide the most benefit to the user of the walkway. This light fixture illuminates this edge of the staircase and some of the reclaimed granite steps.
We designed a new front entrance way for this family which included a tiered front yard with stone walls, plants and landscape lights. Our brick walkway, reclaimed granite steps, natural stone retaining walls are highlighted with path lights and a fully automated landscape lighting system as well as plants that will thrive in the dry conditions near the stone walls.
As a result of our efforts, we received the following comment from our client: “We *love* it! One of our friends said that it looks like it should be in a magazine. 
And we agree!”
