Fire pits and fireplaces are popular areas during summer evenings. If you’re looking to enhance your Westchester County, NY, landscape design, we have some ideas for adding extra functionality and aesthetic appeal to your fire pit or fireplace seating area.

Lighting for walkways and steps is crucial for a number of reasons, not least of which is safety. Well-lit steps and walkways ensure that visitors to your Lagrangeville, NY, home are able to safely navigate their way to your front door and/or around your backyard when the sun goes down. Good landscape lighting also highlights these features to make them attractive focal points of your landscape in the evenings.

Landscape lighting, in addition to ensuring safety after dark, should highlight the features that make a particular landscape unique. Concentrating your landscape lighting around distinct focal points will personalize your Putnam, NY, property and make it infinitely more memorable. Lighting focal points also creates a more impactful nightscape as it leaves dark areas at intervals that add dimension to the overall landscape design. Here are a few guidelines for focal point lighting.

Size may not have as much of an effect as you may think when transforming your small Poughquag, NY, front yard into eye-catching landscaping. To get the job done effectively, with the utmost quality, you need the assistance and expertise of a landscape designer. A thorough and efficient landscape designer can take your landscaping vision and bring it to life while keeping quality, efficiency, and style in mind along every step of the project.

Do you wish your family-friendly landscape had a slightly more sophisticated side to it after dark, so that you could welcome guests, or wine and dine in more style? Giving your landscape a completely new night-time look is as easy as changing the layout and design of your outdoor lighting. Landscape lighting can transform the aesthetic of your Hopewell Junction, NY, property, making it more elegant, fun and memorable as a destination

Retaining walls can do so much more for your hardscape than keeping unruly plant beds and slopes in check. These multi-functional structures can serve as seat walls, barriers and aesthetic contributors to the hardscape. With such a wide range of concrete wall units at your disposal, it’s easy to execute a retaining wall design that perfectly complements your Fishkill, NY, home and hardscape.

It is just as important to illuminate the floor beneath your feet as it is to illuminate the appliances you use. A well-lit patio floor will minimize the risk of slips, trips and falls. Consider installing tread lights into your staircases to ensure that guests can navigate slopes safely. These lights can also make any staircase look more elegant. Having downturned lights installed beneath the coping of low walls will also keep the perimeters of your outdoor rooms well-lit and can draw attention to the stunning stone that you have selected to veneer your seat walls. 

A surefire way to fully enjoy the priceless Wappingers Falls, NY, summer is to have an outdoor
space that makes you feel good. By engaging the senses, Lehigh Lawns & Landscaping can
create an outdoor space for you that is both functional and enticing. By paying special attention to the five senses, your property will be transformed from a yard into a multi-sensory experience.