A welcoming concrete patio in your front or backyard not only enhances the look, and value of your home but equally enhances the quality of your life, too. Since the warmer weather will be here before you know it, it is the perfect time to get things ready.
So, where do you start?
Whether you are looking to give an old area some TLC or start with a brand-new space, here are 10 unique concrete patio ideas to help you get started. Find what you love and make it your own.
1. An Outdoor Living Room
While the idea itself isn’t original, creating a living room in your backyard gives you plenty of opportunity for personalization. Consider an outdoor living room to be much like an outdoor space to hang out and socialize, read a good book, or just relax after a long day at the office.
Tables, chairs, benches, and more are great options to include. And the versatility of concrete allows you to design the size, shape, and character of the space however you want to.
2. A Pool and a Patio
Having a home with a pool can be relaxing and refreshing. It can also make your home a hot spot for social activity.
Transform the space with a concrete patio designed around your pool. Concrete and aggregate concrete is the safest. most attractive, long-lasting surface to surround the pool with. When designing the pool patio area consider including a place to grill, patio furniture dining, a lounging spot in the sun, and of course, a place to socialize over an ice-cold beverage.
3. A Garden Patio
There is no denying that plants just make life more calming and beautiful — and herbs make food taste better. That’s even more reason to create a colorful, native, or ornamental garden patio. Using concrete and the design skills of an experienced mason, you can have custom garden retaining walls created for your beds. It is the perfect place for your garden.
The best part? The serenity a garden patio can bring into your life.
4. A Warm Fire Pit
Many memories are made around an in-ground, stone, or paver-block fire pit. While you can always go to the store and purchase one, why would you want to? Choose to create a custom-built fire pit so you can create a gathering space that will last for years of enjoyment.
5. An Outdoor Kitchen
Why spend time indoors cooped up in the kitchen when you can enjoy cooking – and eating – on your spacious, concrete patio? Whether a barbecue on a beautiful day or a dinner under the stars, a custom-designed outdoor kitchen creates the perfect place to enjoy a good meal.
6. A Patio Lined with Flowers
Bring your outdoor patio together with your landscaping. Use concrete and stone retaining walls to stop drainage problems and soil erosion on both soft and strong slopes. Mortared, concrete and stone walls allow you to finally enjoy the yard you have always wanted- install along your patio and sidewalks shrubs, flowers, and native plants of all types of colors and sizes.
7. Stamped Concrete Patios
Make your patio your own with stamped concrete. This allows you all the reliability and durability of concrete with the look and/or texture of brick, stone, wood, and tile. Stamped Concrete is an excellent concrete patio choice for Northern Virginia’s ‘Freeze and Thaw’ winter weather.
Best of all, stamped concrete gives you so many possibilities to personalize your patio.
8. A Mix of Materials
Just because you have a concrete patio doesn’t mean you have to only have concrete. You can mix and match the concrete by choosing various colors for it, and borders that include flagstone, brick, and stamped concrete patterns. For easy access your concrete patio can be enhanced by concrete, stone, or paver retaining walls, sidewalks, and steps.
Remember, your concrete patio and surrounding hardscape is your creation.
9. Make Use of Slopes with Flat Tiers
If you don’t have a perfectly flat yard, don’t give up on having a concrete patio to enjoy. Instead, you will just have to use your imagination! Your yard can be terraced with concrete, stone, or paver retaining walls, and your patio can be built on a sturdy reinforced, concrete base. Your concrete patio is built to fit your lifestyle- a place to lounge, grill, or get warm by the fire.
Not only does this make the space highly functional and long-lasting, but it looks great, too.
10. A Seamless Look
Today, modern homes are all about aesthetics. And not having clunky, obstructive transitions is trending.
Design your patio with a seamless look by extending your indoor flooring outside where it meets the concrete. When professionally done, the results will be stunning.
How Will You Design Your Concrete Patio?
If you are ready to fall in love with your outdoor space, Green Lady Masonry & Drainage Solutions can help. With years of experience in bringing visions to life, let us work with you to design a concrete patio that elevates your surroundings.
Contact us today!