8 Deck and Patio Ideas
8 Deck and Patio Ideas for Your Hampton Roads Backyard You’ve decided that you want to add hardscapes to your VA backyard. How about adding a deck, patio or deck/patio combination to your Virginia Beach outdoor space? Patios & Decks—What’s the Difference? There are some key differences between a patio and a deck. For example, a deck is off ground while a patio is level with the ground. Also, decks are made from wood or wood composite, and patios are made with pavers, bricks or other masonry. Here are some other differences between a patio and a deck: Plants, trees and shrubs are used as the paint and wallpaper of [...]
5 Reasons to Build an Outdoor Structure
5 Reasons Why You Need an Outdoor Structure Landscape structures have been around a long time. Homes of yesteryear would have summer homes, picnic pavilions and lots of arbors and trellises. Today’s outdoor structures have evolved from simple, practical structures to elaborately, designed outbuildings that create a mini-retreat. Here are five reasons why you need a landscape structure: Storage: This is one of the main reasons why homeowners add an outdoor structure to their property. You don’t want your rakes, lawn mower, and planters just piling up outside nor do you want to use your garage’s space. And your storage shed doesn’t have to be a [...]
Winterize Your Water Feature
Winterizing Your Water Features As the weather turns crisp, days shorten, and the leaves begin to fall, it’s time to start thinking about prepping those water features for the winter. Here in Hampton Roads we can get away with putting it off a little bit longer than our Northern neighbors, but just one freeze can ruin a beautiful fountain or waterfall. Even small bird baths, shallow basins, and bubbling rocks can be damaged by winter weather so before a freeze threatens, take out your checklist and get started! For the purposes of this checklist, our focus is on features that use less than approximately 200 gallons of water. Larger pools, ponds, and waterscapes require [...]
Low Voltage Outdoor Lighting
Outdoor Low Voltage Lighting Often consumers confuse low voltage lighting with dim accent lights for walkways. Advances in LED technology have changed the reality of what is possible in energy efficient security lighting. By using LED, homeowners can have a safer yard without making their house look like a military installation. Thieves and vandals are discouraged by a well-lit property, but that doesn't mean a homeowner needs to install searchlights and sodium vapor streetlights at every corner of the house. There are more economical ways to brighten those dark recesses. Light vs. Power Security lighting should be bright, and cost effective. Many consumers have been trained to believe that higher [...]
5-FAQ-Landscape-Lighting
Outdoor Lighting FAQ Landscape lighting emphasizes your outdoor living spaces and shows off your yard and other landscape features at night. It can enhance the appearance of your Virginia Beach area home while also making it safer for you to walk around outside when ‘it’s dark out. At Visionscapes Land Design, we provide high-quality landscape lighting services for homeowners in Virginia Beach and the surrounding Tidewater area. 5 Frequently Asked Questions about Outdoor Landscape Lighting When it comes to adding creative night-time lighting to your landscape, as a homeowner you’re bound to have a ton of questions. Here are five of the most popular: 1. What is the Difference Between Outdoor [...]
Improving Outdoor Living Spaces with a Fireplace
For the last million years, our human ancestors have distinguished ourselves from other animals by our mastery of fire. We have used it for light, warmth, to keep predators at bay, and of course, for cooking. From primitive fire pits dug into the ground to grand and glorious marble fireplaces, humans still appreciate fire. Modern fireplaces and firepits have a variety of compositions, purposes and fuels. What fire feature is best suited for your landscape? Choosing a location Choosing a location is probably the first thing you will do. Fire pit placement is a decision that must be made very carefully. Ensure that sparks and flames will not be able to reach other combustible [...]
Harvests From Seatacks Garden
With the Something in the Water Festival far out of our minds until next year, it is having lasting effects here in the Tidewater area. As we have mentioned, it was the foundation behind updating the urban garden at Seatack elementary. We overhauled the entire garden thanks to donors such as Pharrell Williams, Timberland, Virginia Natural Gas, WPL, Vulcan Materials, Kempsville Building Materials, Treated Lumber Outlet, Atlantic Fence Supply, Tidewater Rebar, Valor Fencing, and our team here at Visionscapes. The children at the Achievable Dream Academy along with the help of Billy Almond of WPL, designed the master garden. The new garden tripled space and included edible tree species, pollinator shrubs, an arbor gateway, an [...]
Case Study – Gaden Residence
How did the landscape design project come to us? In the business of landscaping, there are no two jobs that are the same. Each customer comes to us with unique ideas, visions, and problems. Customers come to us through many outlets like social media, recommendations from their neighbors, our website or in this case their home builder. The Gaden's built a new custom home with Stephen Alexander Homes so they were starting with a blank slate for their landscaping. What landscape issues did their property have? One of our designers, Cristina, met them out at their new home while it was still under construction. Their building lot had not been properly graded yet, so their yard was pooling with [...]
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