Garden Nook Patio

Solution: This petite, comfortable backyard haven is tucked amongst the carefully tended gardens surrounding a Mosinee, WI, home. Alternating concrete pavers in various sizes and colors form the surfaces and border of the walkway and patio, while both smooth and tumbled concrete landscape units and matching caps form low seat walls and retaining walls.

Fitting Comfortably into Nature

Someone might miss this petite nook nestled up against a home in Mosinee, Wisconsin, considering the ample, flourishing gardens surrounding it. A path of alternating concrete DISCOVER PAVERS® in a gentle buff color with a border of light 4x8 ELEMENTS™ PAVERS leads from the front of the home to the patio, which features the same DISCOVER and ELEMENTS motif.

Along the way, visitors pass between flower garden beds that run along the path on one side and between the path and the home on the other. As the path gently rises to meet the patio, the garden bed beside the home is kept level by a retaining wall that tapers off when it reaches the patio’s surface. Built from Smooth TRIBUTE® WALL SYSTEMS and topped by Double Sided Smooth Rectangle Caps, it also serves as a seat wall.

At the terminus of the retaining wall, Tumbled SUMMIT STONE® LANDSCAPE UNITS form the base of a low, two-step staircase that provides access to a patio door. Topped by alternating DISCOVER PAVERS and bordered by Smooth SUMMIT STONE® LANDSCAPE UNITS, the staircase mimics the low wall on the far side of the patio. This privacy wall, constructed of Tumbled SUMMIT STONE LANDSCAPE UNITS and Double Sided Smooth Rectangle Caps, makes an ideal place for the homeowners to display potted flowers.

The elegant feel of the refined patio floor contrasted against the aged, rustic look of the low privacy wall is fitting for a lush garden environment. The concrete elements of this comfortable nook pack a lot of charm into a tiny space.

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