Feature Project:

Conservation Meadows


Background

An 8 year old home in the west end of Waterloo went through a four season room addition and backyard landscape in the same year. The design includes elegant clean lines that mix reclaimed timber materials with timeless natural stone softened with garden boarders and well placed outdoor lighting for evening use. This backyard retreat is enjoyed all year long with summertime BBQs with friends and family in the outdoor kitchen and quite evenings around the stone fire pit. During the fall the outdoor lighting highlights the design and changing colours of the leaves and in the winter the lighting allows the owners to enjoy the snowcapped trees and shrubs in the garden from the warmth of their home.

Background

An 8 year old home in the west end of Waterloo went through a four season room addition and backyard landscape in the same year. The design includes elegant clean lines that mix reclaimed timber materials with timeless natural stone softened with garden boarders and well placed outdoor lighting for evening use. This backyard retreat is enjoyed all year long with summertime BBQs with friends and family in the outdoor kitchen and quite evenings around the stone fire pit. During the fall the outdoor lighting highlights the design and changing colours of the leaves and in the winter the lighting allows the owners to enjoy the snowcapped trees and shrubs in the garden from the warmth of their home.

Landscape Features

  • Reclaimed timber pergola and privacy screens
  • Storage shed
  • Square cut flagstone patio with granite cobble stone borders
  • Natural stone outdoor kitchen with Eramosa limestone countertops
  • Natural stone gas fire pit
  • Artificial turf
  • Colourful perennials, flowering shrubs, ornamental grasses and evergreen trees
  • Landscape lighting to accent stone bbq, trees and walkways

Challenges

Being a corner lot privacy from the street was an important design element.

Meeting backyard needs for a young family while designing for future use. The design had to include the pre-existing play structure for the couple’s young kids. We were able to design around it in a way that the play structure area can seamlessly turn into a water feature in the future.

Conservation Meadows Gallery

Concept & Renderings

Before Images

After Images