Anyone who can reminisce about a pastime spent around a campfire can see the allure of having a fireplace in their own backyard. Nothing is more enjoyable than spending time outside with friends and family. Fireplaces and Fire-pits can be designed in a variety of styles, sizes and price points utilizing a large range of materials and endless choices.
It’s easy to see why they are fast becoming a popular addition to our backyards. Unlike a pool which has a short lived season in our climate a fireplace can not only extend the night, but can extend the seasons. Design can be as simple as a ring of stones or as elaborate as a full masonry fireplace complete with areas to store logs and your fire tending tools.
You can choose a gas burning unit with convenience rivaling that of turning on your television or you can stick with the more traditional fuel. When designed correctly it will become a focal point of an outdoor space and couple it with comfortable furniture and you have an outdoor room that will provide you with endless hours of enjoyment all year round. Sit outside in your backyard on a nice summer night with friends and family, makings’mores, enjoying some drinks, and making more memories in the years to come.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Scenic Landscaping LLC: NJ’s premiere Design-Build Firm
The Design-Build firm combines professional design services with professional construction services. The combination of these services provides a seamless, cost effective and practical project from one accountable source: Scenic Landscaping LLC.
Tapestry Landscape Architecture is NJ’s premiere Design-Build Firm, creating successful projects for over 34 years.
There are 5 key benefits to working with a design-build firm.
1-Cost effectiveness
2-Time Efficient/ Streamlined Process
3-Single Source Accountability
4-One Stop Shopping
5-Practical Constructability
Working with a DBF will provide you with savings from every aspect of the project. Detailed designs with construction details, permit applications and accurate budgets from a single source will result in faster project delivery, saving you time and money.
In all the most important aspect is practical constructability. Can your project be built on time and on budget? Before ever starting your project a DBF can quickly determine whether the proposed project is feasible before you invest time and money in the design.
While starting your project your designer, knowing your budget, will provide you with accurate and realistic plans for your project having intimate knowledge of what the real cost of construction is.
All of the necessary services to create a successful project will be managed by a single source, from design to construction. From masonry to pool installation, plantings to fencing, water gardening to irrigation and night lighting all of these services are planned for and managed by a DBF firm. The single source allows for one stop shopping for all the services needed to create a successful project.
This then allows for single source accountability. When a problem does arise there is no finger pointing or waiting for the designer/contractor to make time to create a solution. A DBF will often solve the issue without the client ever knowing there was one.
Tapestry Landscape Architecture is NJ’s premiere Design-Build Firm, creating successful projects for over 34 years.
There are 5 key benefits to working with a design-build firm.
1-Cost effectiveness
2-Time Efficient/ Streamlined Process
3-Single Source Accountability
4-One Stop Shopping
5-Practical Constructability
Working with a DBF will provide you with savings from every aspect of the project. Detailed designs with construction details, permit applications and accurate budgets from a single source will result in faster project delivery, saving you time and money.
In all the most important aspect is practical constructability. Can your project be built on time and on budget? Before ever starting your project a DBF can quickly determine whether the proposed project is feasible before you invest time and money in the design.
While starting your project your designer, knowing your budget, will provide you with accurate and realistic plans for your project having intimate knowledge of what the real cost of construction is.
All of the necessary services to create a successful project will be managed by a single source, from design to construction. From masonry to pool installation, plantings to fencing, water gardening to irrigation and night lighting all of these services are planned for and managed by a DBF firm. The single source allows for one stop shopping for all the services needed to create a successful project.
This then allows for single source accountability. When a problem does arise there is no finger pointing or waiting for the designer/contractor to make time to create a solution. A DBF will often solve the issue without the client ever knowing there was one.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Walk this way
Don’t be fooled by this stone walkway’s charming weathered look; it’s actually a recent addition to a once-neglected Fair Lawn backyard. “When we started, there was just a steep slope going into a lawn that was overgrown with brush and ivy,” says Mike Kukol of Horizon Landscape & Irrigation Company in Wyckoff. And with no clear path through the overgrowth, the only usable land was a 5-foot-wide swath at the top of the hill.
After sprucing up the yard with lush green grass, Kukol added the steps, made of natural quarried stone from Pennsylvania, to make it easy to walk down the hill. An adjacent garden area featuring two natural rock walls spanning more than 50 feet serves to further beautify the area.
The garden also contains rhododendron, astilbe, heuchera, columbines and itea—plants that thrive in the shade. “When planting around a walkway, it’s important to consider sun exposure,” says Kukol. Working with a sunnier spot? Kukol recommends planting ajuga, juniper, dianthus and black-eyed Susans.
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After sprucing up the yard with lush green grass, Kukol added the steps, made of natural quarried stone from Pennsylvania, to make it easy to walk down the hill. An adjacent garden area featuring two natural rock walls spanning more than 50 feet serves to further beautify the area.
The garden also contains rhododendron, astilbe, heuchera, columbines and itea—plants that thrive in the shade. “When planting around a walkway, it’s important to consider sun exposure,” says Kukol. Working with a sunnier spot? Kukol recommends planting ajuga, juniper, dianthus and black-eyed Susans.
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Welcome to paradise
“We wanted to create a tropical paradise,” says Mitch Knapp (president of Scenic Landscaping and a partner at Tapestry Landscape Architecture, both in Haskell) of this stunning patio and pool area in Frank-
lin Lakes.
In keeping with the theme, wild, natural-looking elements are incorporated throughout the space. Exotic plants—including coral-bark maple, gold mop cypresses, natural grasses and tropical annuals—evoke a remote natural wonderland. A large patio made of Idaho quartzite from Stonetown Construction Corporation in Oakland provides an ideal spot to soak up the sun, while an irregular- shaped pool, moss rock waterfall, Jacuzzi and curved waterslide—all from B&B Pool & Spa Center in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.—create an extra splash of fun.
“The homeowner told me he wanted to feel like he was on vacation all the time, and that’s what we achieved,” says Knapp.
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lin Lakes.
In keeping with the theme, wild, natural-looking elements are incorporated throughout the space. Exotic plants—including coral-bark maple, gold mop cypresses, natural grasses and tropical annuals—evoke a remote natural wonderland. A large patio made of Idaho quartzite from Stonetown Construction Corporation in Oakland provides an ideal spot to soak up the sun, while an irregular- shaped pool, moss rock waterfall, Jacuzzi and curved waterslide—all from B&B Pool & Spa Center in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.—create an extra splash of fun.
“The homeowner told me he wanted to feel like he was on vacation all the time, and that’s what we achieved,” says Knapp.
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Outdoor Living Made Beautiful
The move is on—indoor spaces are heading out! Already prevalent on the West coast, this landscaping trend has migrated here to the East as more and more homeowners discover the joys and convenience of entertaining outdoors. They’re spurred in part by the growing number of products, once typically used only for interiors, being designed with outdoor living in mind. Today, rooms that are inside your home are also being created for outside living.
For example, an outdoor kitchen can be designed fully equipped with a BBQ, refrigerator, kegerator, wine cooler, sink, TV, oreven a stereo system. Outdoor fireplaces and fire pits have also joined the trend. After all, who wouldn’t love to gather around an inviting backyard fire while enjoying a glass of wine and discussing the day’s news with family and friends? If the thought of chilling and basking in all the comforts of outdoor luxury sounds tempting, sit back and take a visual tour of some of the landscape scenes created for area residents by the service professionals at Scenic Landscaping. They might just spur your imagination and desire to create an outdoor oasis for your own heavenly home retreat.
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For example, an outdoor kitchen can be designed fully equipped with a BBQ, refrigerator, kegerator, wine cooler, sink, TV, oreven a stereo system. Outdoor fireplaces and fire pits have also joined the trend. After all, who wouldn’t love to gather around an inviting backyard fire while enjoying a glass of wine and discussing the day’s news with family and friends? If the thought of chilling and basking in all the comforts of outdoor luxury sounds tempting, sit back and take a visual tour of some of the landscape scenes created for area residents by the service professionals at Scenic Landscaping. They might just spur your imagination and desire to create an outdoor oasis for your own heavenly home retreat.
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