Exploring Ideas: Designing Outdoor Living Spaces

Springtime brings warmer weather, longer evenings, and more time to spend in your outdoor living spaces, to unwind from a long day at the office or to entertain family and friends.

When designing your outdoor living spaces, begin by deciding how you would like to interact with the space during the 4 seasons. Your outdoor space should be designed to accommodate your ideas, objectives, style, and budget.

Outdoor living spaces may include specific destination locations, such as a patio or garden. Walkways are the paths that lead you to your destination connecting the elements within your landscape ensuring flow and cohesiveness within the design.

Adding LED outdoor lighting and a fire pit or outdoor fireplace to your patio will create ambiance and add value to your property.

At Campbell & Ferrara, we create beautiful outdoor destinations. We specialize in designing and building custom outdoor living spaces that beautify your property and that you can enjoy throughout the year.

Starting with Walkways

Walkways are more than paths leading to your front porch or backyard. Indeed, walkways enhance your landscape design by organizing and providing function to your outdoor spaces. They provide safe and aesthetically pleasing connections to different areas of your property.

In addition to function, walkways can add mystery and delight, leading to a unique garden or destination patio. Ideally, a walkway should connect all your outdoor spaces, including gardens and hardscaping features.

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There is a wide selection of flagstone and patio pavers to choose from that will complement your landscape. Add outdoor lighting along the walkways so your guests may safely traverse between your different outdoor spaces. LED lighting is also used to add interest to your landscape by highlighting your beautiful trees, shrubs, and gardens and to provide a level of security for your property.

Meeting Together at the Patios

Your walkways should lead to a focal point, usually the patio. When selecting your flagstone or patio pavers, you should consider the texture, color, size, and shape that complements your home’s exterior and reflects your personal style.

Comfortable outdoor seating allows you to spend hours outside reading, entertaining, and sipping your morning coffee. You can add a pergola to reduce the sun’s glare.

Retaining walls built along your patio will add definition to your patio and provide additional seating around your outdoor living space.

You can enjoy your patio on cool days when you have a fire pit or an outdoor fireplace to provide warmth.

Our designers will help you design and install your destination patio that reflects your dreams.

Enjoying the Evening with LED Lighting

Stay outside enjoying and entertaining into the evening hours with the installation of well-designed outdoor lighting. LED lighting will keep everyone safe while walking through the different parts of your outdoor living environment.

Lighting also adds another dimension enabling you to experience the beauty of your landscape during the evening darkness while outdoors or indoors.

Connect with Campbell & Ferrara for All Your Outdoor Living Spaces

Your patio serves as a focal point of your backyard and is an extension of your home. To create the ultimate cozy year-round outdoor living space, add outdoor furniture, a complimentary seat wall, LED lighting, a fire pit or fireplace. You, your family, and friends will enjoy your destination patio now and for years to come.

At Campbell & Ferrara, we have a passion for designing and installing outdoor living spaces. Each project presents new and exciting possibilities that we enjoy pursuing. Call us today at (703) 354-6724 or fill out our contact form to discuss your outdoor living spaces.