Category: hardscaping design

Fairfax VA Firepits: Create A Family Gathering Spot

Creating a backyard oasis with an outdoor kitchen, flagstone patio and firepit can create a family gathering spot for generations.

While your kids are little, they can be roasting marshmallows while you watch. As they grow, during their teenage years, your kids will gather with their friends in the ‘cool’ backyard and talk of schools and boyfriends and girlfriends.

When the kids go away to college, they will have the fond memories of the ‘best backyard in the world’, and the great times they had there. You can go out to the firepit and roast a couple of marshmallows yourself, remembering the times when the kids were little.

After college, your kids will start careers, and get married, starting families of their own. But, there will be stories told to your grandkids of the ‘best backyard in the world’.

Before you know it, there will be little kids, roasting marshmallows around the backyard firepit again, as you tell stories of your grandkids parent’s time playing in that yard.

Families need places to gather, get connected and build memories. A backyard retreat can provide such a place for your family. Give Premier Paving a call and get started building those family memories today.

What Does Fairfax VA Hardscaping Design Entail?

If you live in Fairfax VA, you may have heard about hardscaping design. What does hardscaping design entail?

Hardscaping is your driveway, walkways, patio, sidewalks, fire pits, fireplaces, and outdoor structures, as a part of your home and landscaping. So, before the experts at Premier Paving & Planting create a design for the hardscaping of your Fairfax VA home, we evaluate your current hardscaping, landscaping, and how both affect your home. Of utmost importance is safety; if  there’s damage or other problems – we will let you know. Some damage is easily seen, like a cracked driveway. Other damage, such as failing retaining walls, may be less apparent.

In creating a hardscaping design, we assess the style of your home – what design changes would look best with your style of home? Would these changes fit in with the look of your neighborhood, or look out of place? For instance, certain paver patterns and colors look more appropriate for some homes, than others. Or some hardscapes can look out of place by size – such as a small patio that looks even smaller when seen against a large home and backyard. If no one in your Colonial-style neighborhood has a huge Grecian fountain in their front yard, that would probably not be part of your hardscape design.

We also think about how improvements or additions to your current hardscaping design can add to the enjoyment and quality of life of you and your family. For example, if you all love and use your patio, a new fire pit will provide extra enjoyment and comfort when entertaining family and friends.

For more information about Fairfax VA hardscaping design, please contact the experts at Premier Paving & Planting. With multiple industry certifications and nearly 30 years of experience in the metro Washington DC area, our work is top quality. We also carry an A+ rating on Angie’s List.