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Concrete Fire Pit and Seat Walls

If you worked hard to design an elegant landscape, you’ll want to enjoy it as much as you can. Installing a fire pit is a great way to make your outdoor living area more comfortable day and night.

In this short video from LandscapingNetwork.com, landscape architect Ive Haugeland discusses a recently completed fire pit and seating project. She says it’s important to select the most central part of the landscape for the fire pit and allow at least four feet of space for seating.

If you’d like a fire pit like the one shown in this video, contact Peach Tree, Inc. We proudly provide our customers with a wide range of lawn, landscape, and irrigation services. Call us in Nashville at (877) 245-4167 to get started. 

Deciding What to Include in Your Luxury Outdoor Kitchen

During the warm months, your landscape becomes a comfortable and relaxing outdoor living space. As such, you might consider installing all the amenities you would expect from any other living space—including a kitchen. However, deciding what to include in your outdoor kitchen can be a bit difficult. Here are a few popular features to get you started:

Grill/Oven

• Since going back and forth between the indoor kitchen and outdoor dining area can be such a hassle, you should definitely include a grill and/or oven in your outdoor kitchen. Plus, including these cooking appliances enables you to cook virtually anything you can imagine in your outdoor kitchen   

Sink

• If you plan on spending a lot of time outdoors, you might as well make your outdoor cooking area into a full-fledged kitchen. In order to do that, you’ll need a sink for washing food, your hands, and dishes.

Refrigerator

• Again, since constantly bringing food from the inside can be inconvenient, you might also consider storing all the necessary food in your outdoor kitchen. A small refrigerator is a great place to keep food for outdoor meals, as well as cool beverages.

Dishwasher

• Just as with indoor meals, your outdoor meals are going to generate a lot of dishes. Instead of bringing all your dishes inside, you should install a dishwasher to make the job a lot easier. Putting dishes into a dishwasher is also much more efficient than washing them by hand.

Cabinets

• In order to neatly stow your dishes, food, and cooking implements, your outdoor kitchen will need a nice set of cabinets. Installing cabinets is also a great excuse to add another decorative touch to your outdoor kitchen.

If you need more help deciding what to include in your outdoor kitchen, contact Peach Tree, Inc. We don’t just design and build outdoor kitchens—we also provide Nashville residents and business owners with landscape services, lawn care, irrigation systems, and much more. Call us today at (877) 245-4167 if you have any landscape-related questions. 

Planning the Best Seating Arrangements for Your New Outdoor Living Space

Though your lovely landscape may be a delight to behold, a well-designed sitting area allows you and your guests to actually become a part of the landscape. However, incorporating a practical seating arrangement can be as difficult as planning the landscape itself. Here are a few factors you should consider when planning the perfect seating arrangement for your outdoor living space: 

Using your hardscape

• Concrete, pavers, and natural stone are all excellent additions to virtually any landscape. In addition to walkways, retaining walls, and patio flooring, you might consider using the hardscape to create a lovely seating area. Just put down a few cushions, and voila—you’ll have an ideal place to relax and entertain guests. Using the hardscape to your advantage is a great way to create the seating you want without breaking up your landscape’s aesthetic.

Purchasing furniture

• Even if you use hardscaping to your advantage, there’s still a good chance that you’ll need to invest in a table and additional chairs. When you do, you should consider what kind of entertaining you expect to do. For instance, do you plan on hosting small, intimate get-togethers or large outdoor parties? You should also consider buying furniture with colors and textures that beautifully blend into your landscape.  

Choosing a location

• As with any other design endeavor, you’ll need to think long and hard about where you want to put your outdoor seating areas. For example, a shaded area may be preferable to an area with prolonged sun exposure. You also might want your seating area to be somewhere that doesn’t block a path or otherwise obscure any part of your glorious landscape.

Establishing an outdoor seating arrangement can be a daunting task to undertake yourself. For professional help, contact the landscape design team from Peach Tree, Inc. Whether you need help with your irrigation system, your lawn, or any other aspect of your landscape, you’ll find that we’re the team for the job. Call us today at (877) 245-4167 and take one step closer to making your Nashville-area home as beautiful as possible. 

Beautify Your Backyard!

When homeowners think about their property, they tend to concern themselves mainly with the house itself. In fact, the area directly around the home has a lot of untapped potential. If you’re thinking of unlocking your property’s true beauty, you should consider hiring the experts of Peach Tree, Inc in Nashville, TN. We can help you build and design the beautiful outdoor living space you need! Get some inspiration from these links and then call us at (877) 245-4167. 

• Are you already planning great outdoor patio parties for the summer? Let this page from GoodHousekeeping.com help you out.

• How familiar are you with herbs? Take a look at this herb glossary from Williams-Sonoma.com to refresh your memory.

• Mulching is an important part of maintaining a landscape. Learn more at this page from HowStuffWorks.com.

• Do you only have enough room for a very tiny garden? This page from WaterUseItWisely.com has some great advice for you.

• Fall can be a wonderful time for flowers. Head over to Better Homes and Gardens to learn more about beautiful fall flowers.      

The Best Lighting to Accent Your Outdoor Living Space

If you’ve recently had professional landscapers create a beautiful outdoor living space in your yard, then you’re probably ready to enjoy it as much as possible. Unfortunately, the beautiful flowers, stunning trees, and well-crafted hardscape all become obscured by the cover of night. In order to show off your glorious landscape 24/7, you should strongly consider installing lights throughout your property. Here are several ways in which you can use outdoor lighting to highlight your landscape’s best features at night:

Pathway lighting

• Installing a natural stone pathway is a beautiful way to connect all the parts of your landscape. However, the darkness of night can make even the best-laid path difficult to navigate. By installing subtle lights all along your landscape’s paths, you could show off their beauty while allowing safe nighttime passage. You might also install a few subtle lights throughout your garden, just to create an aesthetic balance. 

Spotlighting

• Your landscape probably boasts several particularly beautiful parts that you want to show off at all times. Strategically installing spotlights throughout your yard can be an excellent way to show off certain aspects in an interesting and mysterious manner. Spotlighting can be great for fountains, trees, plants—all the parts of your landscape that you’re proud of.

Up-lighting

• Though the sunlight may looks very nice on the tops of your trees and plants, the nighttime gives you an excellent opportunity to see your landscape in a different way. By installing lights at the base of your trees and having them shine upwards, you can give your trees nighttime alter-egos. You might even use up-lighting to tastefully highlight your home’s elegant siding.

If you need help selecting the best possible landscape lighting scheme for your yard, contact Peach Tree, Inc. of Nashville. Our skilled landscape design experts can help you effectively use highly-efficient LED lights to turn your dark landscape into an elegant nighttime utopia. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call us at (877) 245-4167.