How to Enjoy Your Outdoor Living Spaces Nearly Year-Round in Dublin and New Albany, OH
Incorporating specific features into your Dublin and New Albany, OH, landscape can make it enjoyable to spend time there in every season. When you choose to add water and fire to an outdoor space, there is an outdoor activity for all year-round.
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Water Features
A gorgeous custom water feature can become the centerpiece of your summer landscape. Adding any of these lovely water features can elevate your outdoor living space.
Swimming pool: When you work with a landscaper to add a swimming pool to your backyard, it can be a fun social activity and a perfect way to exercise. The wide variety of swimming pool shapes and sizes means that there can be one for almost any outdoor space.
From a long, narrow lap pool that provides an opportunity for exercise to an infinity pool that boggles the mind, there is a pool design that will work in your landscape. People of all ages enjoy swimming and even the older grandparents can delight in the fun and laughter when they don’t want to swim.
Water fountain: There are many types of water fountains that can grace your outdoor space. A bubbler can be nestled into a nearby landscape bed to bubble over in a recirculating stream. Fit into an oversize pot in an earthen, rustic tone or something bright to catch the eye, a bubbler can be amazing to hear and fun to watch.
Another fountain idea can be to have your landscaper install a spouting fountain onto the exterior wall of your house or on a nearby fence. A modern fountain can be made from copper pipe that spills over gently or a more traditional choice can be the lion’s head.
There are any number of water fountains that bring the sensory experience to your landscape.
Fire Features
While fire can feel like a cool weather option, it actually can be amazing at any time of the year, even in summer.
Fire pit: A warm fire pit can be tucked into an unused corner of your outdoor living space or the central focus. Like a swimming pool, the size and style can be adjusted for your personal needs and space.
A fire pit can be recessed into the patio floor or the nearby ground to appear as if it is coming out of the ground. The fire pit can also be elevated for the perfect place to prop your feet at the end of the day.
Fireplace: A fireplace can be the ideal addition to an edge of your patio where you can place comfortable furniture for relaxing. You might prefer having the fireplace be a destination of its own within the landscape.
No matter where you place the fireplace, the custom design and hand-selected materials can bring it to the forefront of the outdoor space. Because fireplaces can burn wood for a traditional fire or can be gas-powered to operate at the touch of an app on your smartphone, you have a choice for the type of fire, too.
A skilled landscape specialist can help you choose which outdoor features will work best in your yard so you can enjoy your space through any season. Water and fire can bring the best of both worlds to your landscape.
About the Author:
In 2001, Shawn Rine decided he would like to earn a little pocket change. With a used mower and lots of hard work, he got his neighbors' yards into shape in no time. Nearly two decades later, Rine Landscape Group has a few more mowers – not to mention a staff of certified landscape specialists and an extensive portfolio of innovative, functional landscape projects in neighborhoods all over the Greater Columbus Metro Area.