Even with high summer temperatures, it’s possible to enjoy outdoor living in comfort on your Lagrangeville, NY patio - so long as some practical adjustments are made to keep it cool. To help bring down the temperature to a comfortable level, here are a few changes you can make.

An outdoor kitchen in your Hopewell Junction, NY home allows you to enjoy the ambiance and natural beauty of your backyard while preparing delicious meals for your family and friends. There are plenty of design options to choose from to create a functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor kitchen.

Creating a dramatic driveway is important to showcase the value of your Pleasant Valley, NY property. For this purpose, homeowners are increasingly turning to pavers to craft immaculate driveways. Let's find out why this product is so effective at creating great first impressions.

Even though your dog may be your best friend, unfortunately you cannot expect it to know how much you value your lawn and landscape, or how much you’ve invested into creating your dream backyard in Poughquag, NY. When your landscape is built with only humans in mind, it’s easy to believe that your dog is the most badly-behaved dog in existence.

Retaining walls help to create, separate and elevate outdoor spaces, as well as provide protection against soil erosion. Beyond these practical aspects, however, they can also serve as eye-catching features for your Poughkeepsie, NY backyard. Take a look at these creative uses for basic retaining walls to inspire your backyard design.

Often overlooked, walkways play a major role in the overall effect of your landscaping and will ultimately either enhance or diminish the aesthetic and enjoyment of your property. While discussing potential designs and features for your home’s walkways in Lagrangeville, NY with a professional landscape designer, remember to consider the location and purpose of the spaces being linked.

In order to achieve landscaping lighting in your Fishkill, NY backyard that is both attractive and bright enough to be suitable for providing safety and food preparation or other tasks, a balance between functional lighting and decorative/ambient lighting is required. Skewed towards function and the lighting becomes blinding and sterile. Too much focus on ambience can result in a space that is too dim for tasks and safety.

If the winter was a little too bleak for you, you’ll be eager to get your pool open and your Westchester County, NY outdoor spaces in order for the spring and summer. Here we’ve put together a number of stunning patio designs that are sure to blow your guests away and help you get your poolside spaces set for an early start to the swimming season.

With residents of Poughquag, NY and surrounding areas looking forward to spring weather, we decided to put together some landscape essentials to kickstart the season. Here we couple design elements such as line, shape and color with practical projects to offer inspiration for your new backyard projects.

During heavy rains, irrigation or gradual buildup of surface or subsurface water, water damage is a huge concern for homeowners. Improper drainage can destroy the root systems of mature trees, wreak havoc on a lawn, obliterate flowerbeds, damage hardscaped areas and even erode the foundations of your Pleasant Valley, NY home. In order to prevent this sort of costly damage, effective drainage is an absolute necessity.

An immaculate landscape is easily ruined by poor drainage. However, by rerouting natural water flow, better drainage methods can ensure a more prosperous environment for plantings while contributing to a healthy ecosystem and effective water saving methods.

Whether you’re looking for a design style for your retaining walls or looking for ways to match them to an existing style, here are some ideas to help you get the look you want for your Hopewell Junction, NY landscape.

An attractive green landscape is not only about maintaining your lawn and plantings, it’s also about selecting the right plants for the job in the first place. Here we’ll look at some versatile plantings that you can incorporate into your landscape for greenery, as well as texture, shape and variety.

Retaining walls are an excellent tool for reshaping your landscape, holding back slopes and creating multiple levels for your outdoor spaces. However, in order to be assured that your retaining walls are able to stand up against the harshness of winter, quality materials and professional construction expertise is absolutely essential.

If your home is a family home, comfort and room for your kids to be active is no doubt a priority. Here are some ideas to help you plan your landscape around a family with a little extra space left over for a canine or feline companion or two.

In today’s busy world, privacy is a sought after commodity. The following ideas can be used to ensure a private outdoor leisure space in your Fishkill, NY backyard and create a sense of intimacy for a romantic evening or a small gathering outdoors.

A stylish patio is one thing, but the mark of a well-designed and functional outdoor living area is the distinction between separate outdoor rooms in order to create an all-encompassing outdoor floorplan. Here are some of the ways you can turn your Wappingers Falls (and surrounding area of course) patio into a stage for the interplay of function and great design.

There seems to be hundreds of choices to create the perfect driveway for your Dutchess County home. And while it may be easier to just stick with the plain 'old asphalt, don't! Stand apart. The biggest upside to venturing past a traditional or plain driveway? The value to which it adds to your home and the pride of knowing it looks exponentially better. Steering well away from the plain driveways of old, here are fantastic examples of driveways that will suit most situations.

Composite decking has gained huge popularity as an alternative to regular timber for backyard decks. Below we’ll look at some frequently asked questions about composite decking to help you decide whether or not it’s the right choice of material for your Wappingers Falls, NY and area home.

Backyard barbecues have been a fun family tradition for decades, but the newest trend for outdoor spaces is a fully functional kitchen. Rather than relying on a simple grill to create outdoor dinners, why not go a step further and add a brick oven, smoker, wine cooler, or a wet bar?