In addition to lawn care and gardening, hardscape design is one of the most effective ways to create a backyard that’s truly one-of-a-kind. Hardscape design refers to all elements of your lawn or outdoor living space that are manufactured or man-made with sturdy materials, such as bricks, stone, and concrete. 

Your backyard is not just a plain plot of grass — it’s an outdoor space that you can design and optimize as precisely as the interior of your home. 

Although landscaping and gardening are certainly important elements of this design, you can further customize and beautify your backyard with numerous hardscape elements such as fire pits, water features, and even weatherproof outdoor kitchens!

In this article, Green-Way Pro reviews some of the most popular and highly reviewed hardscape design concepts and outdoor constructions for backyards, all of which we offer to homeowners. In Montrose and surrounding areas of the Western Slope, we provide top-rated services in landscaping and hardscaping for residential homes as well as commercial properties.

Explore the possibilities of hardscape design for backyards below! You can also learn more about enhancing your curb appeal by contacting our team of local contractors and lawn care experts today!

Fire Pits

Summer days in Colorado range from warm to sweltering, but the evenings almost always offer a reprieve from the seasonal heat. When the sun sets and the stars come out, you can make your backyard a place of home as well as hearth by installing a fire pit. With countless design and customization options, a fire pit might just become your new favorite outdoor feature.

Like many hardscaping features, fire pits can be fabricated from a number of different materials, but most commonly you’ll find structures fashioned from brick, stone, and concrete. Depending on your personal aesthetic preferences or the existing exterior of your home, one or more hardscape materials may be incorporated into your fire pit build. 

Brick fire pits have a rustic yet sophisticated appearance, evoking the essences of ancient architecture as well as modern trends in masonry. If your home has an exterior featuring brick, clay, or stucco, this style of fire pit is sure to create a complementary and cohesive look between your main residence and your outdoor living space.

Stone fire pits are one of the most popular materials used in contemporary fire pit construction. Their naturally-occurring components make them cost-effective, and their diverse array of colors and texture can be suited to match any backyard design concept or personal preference. Whether you’re going for a rugged and weathered face or a vibrant and colorful ashlar face, the vast quantity of stone cuts and mineral varieties available for hardscaping purposes gives you a more than adequate assortment of choices to consider.

Concrete fire pits come in a number of styles, colors, and finishes, including traditional grays as well as more exotic variations in white, black, beige, copper, and brown. You can also commonly add decorative features such as lava rock, stainless-steel edging, and fire glass beads. 

Whether you’re using a fire pit in your backyard for function, fun, or a bit of both, there’s no question that these hardscaping features are an aesthetically pleasing option that truly lights up your outdoor living area.

Water Features

From water fountains to waterfalls to custom-designed streams, adding a water feature to your backyard has never been simpler or more satisfying. The incorporation of stone, flowing water, and surrounding elements, such as lighting units and garden plants, produces a truly “zen” environment that brings you face-to-face with nature without requiring you to leave the neighborhood.

Our hardscape contractors love to work on water features for our Montrose clients, and we’d like to think that they feel the same, because we always go with the flow! We offer services in fully customized water features, such as rock arrangements and waterfall patterns, as well as ready-to-install design options conceived by our own team of landscape experts.  

Outdoor Kitchens 

If you think that the only kind of outdoor cooking involves a grill and a bottle of barbecue sauce, think again. Outdoor kitchens are now easy to install and oh-so fun to design, especially when you have the number of hardscaping options that we do at Green-Way Pro. Whether you need a simple dining table and a small cook area or a full spectrum of high-end kitchen gadgets, we can design your outdoor kitchen to accommodate your personal palate as well as your price point. Learn more about our inventory of task-specific outdoor living spaces, please visit our main site at https://greenwaypro.com/ 

Ready to Hardscape Your Montrose Backyard? Let Us Do The Heavy Lifting

Lawn care and gardening have often received more attention than hardscape design, but each of these are important in their own way for producing a backyard that makes you feel at home. As one of the Top-Rated Local® landscaping companies in Montrose, Green-Way Pro has the professional expertise and diversity of services to help you conceptualize, design, install, and maintain your ideal outdoor living space. Explore our areas of specialization in hardscaping — or discover other diverse offerings in property management, irrigation systems, and garden planting — by visiting us online or giving us a quick call at 970-964-4610.