Outdoor Living Spaces

Design and construction of a residential patio-fireplace-grill combo. Project starts with a design plan. Construction starts with the patio.

Construction continues with the beginning of the Colonnnade/seat wall ring of the semicircle patio.

The Colonnade/seat wall circle is completed with the outdoor grill.

Another view of the outdoor grill.

And another.

The patio fireplace is located at the peak of the patio.

Construction begins with the base.

Placing the lower portions of the stack.

Completion of the insides of the fireplace.

Exterior stonework begins.

Substantial completion of the lower stonework.

Completed fireplace and seat walls.

Completed fireplace viewed from the lawn.

In previous pictures, you saw design and construction from scratch. But they can also be established on a customer site with pre-constructed modular pieces. Here is enjoying a fireplace, patio and grill.

Grill with open grating or for an enclosed grill of choice.

Enjoying the outdoor evening.

The patio firepit.

The patio bar.

Enjoying the evening.

Installation and enjoying a modular pre-constructed outdoor living area that can include one or two elements or a whole host of elements, from fireplaces to grills, seat-walls to full bars, fire pit to canopy-arbors. Arbor picture shown here.

Pavers are effective in many settings - from simple accents to whole outdoor living spaces. Here is an enhanced entryway.

A driveway accent that breaks up the monochrome.

Achieving with ease a pleasing open walkway, seating area near patio, plus color plantings and textures.

Mix paver solutions with other needs and decorative features: retaining walls, stairways, outcroppings, natural stone and more.

Pavers mixed with natural stone and plantings.

Pavers with fieldstone, timber stair treads and plantings.

Pavers in a multi-level walk framed in natural stone.

Pavers as entryway and patio, with access to upper playground via stairs and decorative retaining wall, and a natural stepping stone pathway.

How about pavers in a "green roof" design?! Yes, it is true. This paver walk is amid a "green roof" on top of a commercial building on Milwaukee's east side. But it could just as easily be, on a smaller scale, a residential "green roof".

Patterned sizes make for greater interest in a larger patio-outdoor living area.

Including firepit, seat walls and pillars, timber accent treads, grill and outdoor lighting.

Simple patio in a smaller city back yard.

Pavers and seat walls with interesting entry.

An outdoor living area attached to the home through patio doors.

How about a winding entryway?

An outdoor living area.

A whole outdoor living area on the lake side.

A path to the lake side of the home.

A simple suburban accent patio in back, with stepping stone walk and stairs to the front lawn elevation.

Commercial entryway and flag pole accent garden.

Pavers framing plantings.

An inviting path to a shaded and private newly completed outdoor living space amid arbors & nascent flowering shrubs.