Creating Intimate Spaces

Landscape Design: Seventy Acres

Landscape Design: Seventy Acres

AAn elegant yet casual beachside residence with intimate spaces for dining, entertaining and relaxing. Separation of public and private space is accomplished at the front entry using crisp white cedar fencing with an arbor and gate to highlight the main entry. Material choices were made to enhance beach life using smooth beach gravel combined with silver travertine pavers with light reflecting qualities. The narrow palette of plantings in shades of green with multiple textures provide calm and intimate privacy and need low maintenance.

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Seventy Acres Landscape Architecture & Design

Nancy King

27 Glen Road, Suite 303

Sandy Hook, CT 06482 203.491.2405 seventyacres.com

Design + Decor: What are some clever ways to blend the building and site?

Todd Zecher: As suppliers, we’ve seen contractors and landscapers use our Outdoor Porcelain Pavers and Copings from our Mountain Hardscaping brand. These porcelain pavers were created to look like natural stone, wood and concrete products but with little to no maintenance and anti-slip surfaces. Incorporating these pavers into the outdoor designs creates a unique sense of cleanliness and openness to the area while having the same look they would want from natural stone, wood and concrete products. We’ve seen job sites where the contractors blend both natural stones and our outdoor porcelain pavers together. Adding in natural stones like bluestone/limestone steps, reclaimed cobblestones, river jack pebbles or colored aggregates give the spaces a warm and inviting atmosphere.

Design + Decor: What are some other design concepts then the “secret garden” that clients are incorporating to their landscape design? Or if not yet discovered what would you like to see?

Todd: When we think about “secret gardens” for outdoor spaces, we envision not only an upscale design but a design that brings a sense of relief and calmness. Our Mountain Hardscaping brand brings stone walls, curbing and other natural stone accessories that complete an outdoor design. We started carrying an assortment of granite products, like large round granite balls, reclaimed planters, millstone, mill rollers, posts, and even stone light fixtures! When working with contractors who are designing Design

Landscape Design: Bergen Brick Stone & Tile

Landscape Design: Bergen Brick Stone & Tile these types of outdoor spaces, we try to embrace the natural feel of these stones while blending the spaces in with our outdoor porcelain pavers.

Design + Decor: How do you apply spatial-visual landscape design when adding secret spaces in garden design?

Todd: For masonry suppliers like us, we provide contractors and landscapers with materials that let them play around with the outdoor space. We’ve seen contractors use our granite curbing along with bush hammered pavers to create not only a natural looking design but give a contemporary overall appearance. Others use larger slabs, whether that be our outdoor porcelain pavers from our Mountain Hardscaping brand or natural stone slabs like bluestone or limestone. When using larger slabs, not only are we covering more square footage per slab, but we are giving the spaces an open feel to give that sense of peacefulness.

Design + Decor: How do you foster biodiverse landscapes design in your projects?

Todd: Our Mountain Hardscaping brand carried a collection of reclaimed cobblestone products. Some cobblestones are full size and some are cut in half to 3” thick so they may be laid like traditional pavers while the rest are cut 1” thick so those cobblestones would be laid over concrete. Our Mountain Hardscaping brand also carries a line of natural stone veneers. We encourage our customers to use natural stone veneers and these reclaimed cobblestone products as sustainability has been our goal when creating these collections for our brand. While we do offer outdoor porcelain pavers, these natural stone products give the option to those looking for a long lasting, timeless look for their spaces.

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Bergen Brick Stone & Tile

Todd Zecher

685 Wyckoff Avenue

Wyckoff NJ 07481

201-891-3500 bergenbrick.com