Consider enhancing your landscape design with rocks and stones for your home and garden.
From adding texture to dimension, using rocks and stones to enhance your landscape design adds polished touches to your at-home oasis.
First, consider what is your aesthetic goal?
Are you looking for a traditional, classic, modern, mediterranean, art-deco, western, ranch-style, or minimalist design?
Keep in mind that there are more design aesthetics than those mentioned above.
The goal in selecting an architectural design is to start with a base framework for your rock and stone mosaic to complement that design.
With your main style objective in mind, the following rock-and-stone landscape design features come to life.
FIRE
- Fireplaces
- Firepits
Fireplaces and firepits are great ways to add stones and rock to your home and garden landscape designs.
You and your guest will enjoy cozying up next to a fire on those crisp evenings, extending your hosting, play, or unwind and relaxation time well past sunset.
An upgraded firepit tailored to your landscape-design preference, such as modern, minimalist or mediterranean, adds an elevated experience.
Pro Tip:
Stone Veneers
Take your firepit to the next level with stone veneers. This gives the appearance of a full stone-carved design on both benches or firepits, bypassing the cost and labor of a fully carved rock stone.
WATER
Bring the best in landscape luxury design to your home with the incorporation of rock and stone to enhance your outdoor water features.
Rock and stone are lovely additions to waterfalls, pools, jacuzzis, and outdoor showers.
Think of a natural spring or your favorite luxury spa, and add the sound of water flowing over stone to your landscaped oasis.
- Waterfalls
Waterfalls don’t have to be exclusive to corporate lawns, resturant lobbies or malls. You too can have the peaceful tranquility of a waterfall in your home landscape.
Front yard waterfalls, driveway statements, small patio centerpieces or even a waterfall leading into pool design – rocks and stones can be used to fit any of your dimension and design desires.
With waterfalls, remember to ‘build layers’.
No matter if the project is big or small, one of the visual appeals to stone and rock usage in waterfall designs is its “stacked” or “textured” structure.
For medium to bigger think if nature, water can take its path wherever it flows.
Work with a professional to design a stunning waterfall within your design preference that mimics nature. Not only will you be able to see a difference, but you’ll also be able to hear the difference in this design.
Pro Tip:
Rocks with sharp edges
Rocks or stones with sharp edges are what you are looking for, more than “smooth” edges.
Designing the perfect waterfall it’s about striking the balance between smooth stones and sharp edges. You want a sharp edge to create the drop off point for your water to actually “fall”.
- Pools and Jacuzzis
Ready to enhance and upgrade your pool area?
The addition of rocks and stones to your outdoor pool area completely changes the look and feel into a landscape oasis.
Imagine this: lush greenery surrounding a pool with a spa entry, a waterfall, and even a small water arch.
Looking for something more minimal and modern?
Imagine a sleek LED light pathway leading out to a white canopy, lounge chairs, and a lazy river or an infinity pool.
Whatever the vision is for your pool or jacuzzi, stones and rocks are a must for a textured, mapped-out, timeless, and modern design.
Pro Tip:
Chunky Boulders
Boulders are a great addition to landscaped pools and jacuzzis. Consider building up instead of out for landscape designs looking to maximize on space. Adding boulders and working with the right landscape designer will help you bring your vision to life.
Have children? Consider adding a slide custom-built within your boulder-wall design to create a seamless blend. You’re sure to be a neighborhood favorite.
Bonus Pro Tip:
Marble Rocks
Marble rocks are a professional landscapers design choice for their striking white color, resistance to fading and cracking over time.
- Showers
An outdoor shower is a lovely addition to your landscape design.
Adding rocks and stones to your outdoor shower allows for a luxe feature to enhance your outside gym, your shaded pergola off from your pool or jacuzzi.
Think to incorporate a brick floor pattern, a large sheet stone, or natural stones for your outdoor shower design.
Pro Tip:
Flagstone is a great choice for your large stone outdoor walking places
Flagstone provides you a unique, one-of-a-kind customized walkway or shower ground due to the unique placement of flagstones tailored to your space dimensions.
EARTH
- Pathways (entranceways, trash paths)
An overlooked landscape area perfect for the addition of rocks and stones are pathways.
Think of your entrance walkways to the front door, back door, or side gates/entrances.
What about your trash paths or that overgrown side of the house?
All of these areas can be designed, no matter the dimensions.
You may be in a traditional home or be looking to design a rooftop or patio space, don’t skip out on rocks and stones.
The addition of stones such as marble, pea gravel, flagstones, or even brick completely enhances your landscaping.
Pro Tip:
Grouting
Do grout your pathways and walkways.
Try incorporating a grout bag to aid in the professional and polished finished look for your rock and stone pathways and walkways.
- Fences/Barriers
Rocks and stones may also be used for fences and barriers. This can manifest in borders surrounding your pool, to stone fences around your hedges, bushes or floral beds.
Most fences are used to mark the start or end of your property, but have you ever thought about incorporating rock or stone designs?
Depending on your overall landscape design, Gabion rock fences are also great barriers or walls.
This style design utilizes cages filled with rocks of any type that are stacked on top of one another to elevate and organize your landscape design or garden.
Pro Tip:
Brick chips are great for water retention and soil temperature control, making them a great rock and stone option for the garden.
- Stacked Stones + Brick Walls
Rocks and stones stacked or implemented brick walls are a quick way to add curb appeal to your home.
Think of a brick wall padding in your front yard hedges, or stacked stones creating a garden border in your backyard?
The addition of stones and rocks provides a simple, clean, and elegant design to any landscape project, big or small.
Pro Tip:
Retaining Wall Rocks
A retaining wall designed with rocks is a lovely project that adds texture, depth, and visual pleasure to your garden design.
Granite, limestone, and sandstone are popular rocks used to create retaining walls.
Overall, the uses of rocks and stones are endless.
This versatile landscape design feature of rocks and stones can be incorporated in pool design to retaining walls and each design can be tailored to your design preference.
No matter if you prefer minimalist design, modern, colonial-traditional, to mediterranean or art-deco, rocks and stones can be used.
Other landscape design tips to enhance your stone and rock usage include incorporating lighting, beads, faux gemstones or crystals, pots, planter containers, sound systems or other modern technology.
Take some time to browse, research, and dream up your next landscape project design incorporating rocks and stones.
Once you’re ready, we are here to help bring your vision to life.
