Landscape Stone and Outdoor Rooms

Outdoor rooms should be a comfortable, serene, and functional living area, and be an extension of your indoor space.  The many types of landscape stone can help create a pleasant, functional outdoor living area.  It can be used in the paving, walls, and other architectural pieces, and complement the color and the stone on your home.

This Lannon stone wall acts as a seat wall, defines a sense of space and privacy. Columns with lanterns anchor the wall.

Retaining Walls

• Stone used:  Concrete blocks, Lannon stone, fieldstone and timbers
• Allows to level a yard with a large slope, giving more space for a living area.

A Bluestone and brick combination breaks up a large patio into different areas for different functions. Here the brick inset acts as the dining area.

Seat Walls

• Stone used:  Concrete block, Lannon stone, mortared stone or brick with cap stones
• Gives living area a sense of space
• Provides a sense of privacy
• Provides more sitting areas
• A nice piece of architectural interest

Concrete block columns topped with lanterns frame the entry to this patio.

Paving

• Stone used:  Concrete, Bluestone, Concrete pavers, brick, or Lannon Stone
• Use for sitting/conversational areas, reading, eating, lounging or grilling
• Stone insets break up the paving area into individual outdoor rooms, for example, an eating area and a lounge area.  They can also give an illusion of an area rug.

Concrete block retaining walls hold back soil to provide more room for a patio. The lower wall can also act as a seat wall.

Columns

• Stone used:  Concrete blocks, Lannon stone, mortared stone or brick, with cap stones
• Gives an outdoor area a sense of entry
• Top with lanterns for night lighting
• Can anchor a seat wall
• Architectural interest

Advertisement

Beautiful Stone Garden Walls

A beautiful stone wall can add a truly majestic element to your landscape.  The use of attractive, natural stone in a wall, whether mortared or dry laid, creates an architectural component with a timeless appeal.  Use a stone wall to enhance the architecture of your home, define space or create a theme for your landscape.

A mortared granite wall and column beautifies a driveway entrance and matches the masonry on the house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stone Garden Wall Objectives 

• Frame an entryway, sidewalk or driveway, drawing your eye toward these areas or use as a focal point.
• Create a sense of space by placing the wall along a sitting area, courtyard or outdoor foyer.  
• Give a sense of privacy by installing a wall around patios and conversational areas.
• Construct seat walls, providing extra areas to sit and relax, or areas to place planters, garden art, lights, and refreshments.
• Create raised planters.
• Hold back soil, terracing yards to create usable space and planting areas.

Wall Materials and Additions

• There is an infinite selection of natural stone available, split, fractured, cut, tumbled and cobble, that give a variety of architectural effects.
• Add a column to the end of the wall to help anchor it.
• For a finished, elegant look, top the wall with a Bluestone or a Bedford limestone cap, or put a marque or address stone in the wall or column.
• Put landscape lighting on top of the wall column, or have an up light shining onto the wall.

This fractured Basalt wall creates a raised planting bed, giving the sitting area a sense of privacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This mortared Lannon cobble wall and column with a Bluestone cap helps frame and focalize the entrance.

This dry laid Lannon stone wall with a Bedford limestone cap helps give the patio area a sense of privacy.