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Making the most of your outdoor space should be a goal for every home owner. Unfortunately, too many people are content to let their lawns stretch out as underutilized and underperforming stretches of land that don’t inspire excitement or provide for a great deal of comfort. Rather than allowing yourself to fall victim to complacency, you should embrace design possibilities and excitement.
If the prospect of coming up with a design plan for an outdoor patio has deterred you from trying to upgrade your home, it’s important that you make the decision to seize the opportunity to reverse that trend. Educating yourself on your options might be an important push that sends you down an exciting path.
Below, you’ll find a guide to some tips for designing your new patio. Keeping these suggestions in mind can allow you to feel some excitement and enthusiasm about the process and might allow you to see opportunity in parts of your home that previously seemed much more like a burden.
Build in Your Features
Few things are more frustrating than completing a major home improvement project and then realizing at the end that you wish you had gone further with it. If you’re going to make the commitment to improve your space, it’s important that you consider all of your possible options and expend all of the necessary energy and resources up front to guarantee that you’re happy with the results.
This strategy can allow you to directly integrate important features into your design. If you think you might enjoy an outdoor fireplace, it can be built directly into the stone. Enclosures for electronics and proper wiring channels can be part of the design elements. Even some permanent furniture may be able to be sculpted from strong building materials in order to guarantee that it remains reliable over the life of your space.
Consider the Color Palette
Your patio should offer you the opportunity to embrace some peace and serenity. Anything that jars you out of that state should be avoided, so it’s important that you make wise decisions with your color choices. The extent of the landscaping in your yard and the frequency with which your space will be in direct sunlight can play important roles in picking out the tones that really make your space pop.
One of the major advantages to building a natural stone patio is the wide variety of colors and shades that can come both directly and indirectly from the surface of the stones. This variety can allow you to plan the perfect look for your new space and can guarantee that you’ll never be sitting and enjoying your patio and wondering why you made such a poor decision in your color palette.
Maximize Cool Air
Shielding yourself from the sun can also mean creating an obstruction that prevents air from moving freely over your patio. Stagnant air can cause your space to feel stuffy or uninviting even when the weather is perfect and can leave you looking for solutions to bring back a feeling of freshness.
Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is also among the simplest. By installing a simple ceiling fan above your patio, you can be sure to keep air moving and remain cool and comfortable even in stifling weather. A fan can help guarantee that you’re always able to enjoy your space and you never feel shut out from relaxing.
Bourget Bros. Building Materials is an experienced supply firm who can give you access to the paving stones you need to build the foundation of a new space. Turning to the benefits of natural stone can provide you with comfort and satisfaction and can form the basis of a new, long-term fixture.
Golden Sienna Travertine Tile Pavers have a rich, sunset-colored golden hue. The beauty and simplicity of travertine can transform any area into a warm, welcoming space.
Golden Sienna Travertine is a kind of yellow travertine quarried in the Andes Mountains. This stone is especially good for Exterior – Interior wall and floor applications, countertops, mosaic, fountains, pool and wall capping, stairs, window sills, etc and other design projects.
As a homeowner, it’s important that you do everything you can to take advantage of the available space in your lawn. Unfortunately, many people allow themselves to be limited by their own lack of vision, and they may not consider all of the exciting possibilities that come with building materials that are simultaneously modern and ancient.
Developments in landscaping with natural stone may make it an extremely appealing option for many people, but hesitation persists due to a lack of familiarity of working with it. By overcoming that hesitation, and learning about all of the benefits that stone has to offer, a new world of ideas and inspiration await.
Below, you’ll find a guide to some of the benefits and possibilities that stone has to offer. Its’ durability and natural beauty will last for years to come, creating a space you will want to come back to time and again.
Durability
Many people who settle on wood or composite products find a great deal of frustration in a relatively short amount of time. Exposure to heat and sunlight can cause these surfaces to crack and split. Moreover, it may require you to put in countless hours of maintenance in an attempt to make your space usable again.
Natural stone products don’t have these same types of restrictions. In fact, many natural stones get even more attractive through wear and exposure. The stone surfaces may wear down to a smooth polish, and sunlight can bring out tones in the stone that highlight warmth and comfort.
Natural stones are also resistant to grease and liquids, making them an excellent choice for a patio area where entertaining guests with food and drink may cause the occasional spill.
Consistent Aesthetic
Developing a spot to relax that looks like it grew naturally from your yard can provide a great deal of peace and tranquility. Other materials may break up the natural beauty of your lawn, but stone will typically accentuate it.
By utilizing earth tones that blend into your space, natural stone pavers and fixtures can highlight the best aspects of your landscaping, while also smoothing over any visible imperfections and rough spots.
Stone paving can also help you add additional soothing features that blend in with natural surroundings. Fountains and ponds can add an air of relaxation and sophistication, and they’re frequently comprised of stone.
By sticking with a consistent material, you can create the perception that a landscaped area that was completed in pieces is actually one consistent project. A cohesive design promotes the precise and thoughtful appearance that you want to see from your landscaping efforts. Consistency can go a long way toward promoting a sophisticated, relaxed aesthetic.
Sustainability
While it’s important to add value and comfort to your home, many people now have a strong environmental conscience and want to rely on sustainable materials in order to do so. Landscaping with wood can require a great deal of lumber, and that raises red flags for many concerned homeowners.
By using natural stone, you can commit to an environmental upgrade that’s consistent with the way you prefer to live your life.
Bourget Bros. Building Materials is committed to helping you see your natural stone landscape design projects all the way through to completion. Relying on 70 years of experience and know-how, Bourget Bros. offers an extensive selection of natural stone options to help turn any dream into a reality.
Bourget Bros. Building Materials is proudly celebrating our 70th year servicing the community. Our building materials and flagstone locations are renowned for offering the highest quality materials and services at fair and reasonable prices.
Now is the perfect time to stop in and get reacquainted with all the things you’ve loved about us, along with discovering some of the many new things we have to offer throughout both of our locations.
Our original building materials yard features pebbles, bulk gravel, crushed colored glass, cast concrete, lumber, ceramic, pebble, and saltillo tiles, manufactured wallrock and a beautiful tile showroom.
Our natural stone showroom and yard features stone slabs, granite, limestone and travertine tiles, landscape boulders, flagstone, wallrock stone veneer, slate, pavers, cobbles, along with our custom fabrication department.
Bourget Bros. Building Materials and Bourget Flagstone Co. offer a complete one-stop shop to service all of your needs. We look forward to saying hi and seeing how we can help!
Designer Alison Flesch of Southern California designed this beautiful and modern cobblestone patio using Bourget Flagstone Co’s sweetwater cobblestone pavers with wood decking.
Cobblestone pavers evoke an old world feel with rich texture and dimension. Our cobblestone pavers come in many varieties, including reclaimed and recycled European granite, bluestone and limestone.
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On Surface: Permeable Paver – Grass or Gravel
1″ x 1.64′ x 1.97 =3.23 square feet
Applications: Green Roofs, Planter Boxes, Sport Fields and Retaining Walls
2″ X 12″ X 19.6″ = 1.64 square feet
Applications: Gravel Pavers, Turf-Parking Lots, under Drains, French Drain and many others uses.
Underground: Septic Leach System, Septic Tanks, Under Parking Lots Cistern and Impermeable Surface Drainage
New at Bourget Bros. Building Materials ECORAIN Modules for infiltration tanks and cistern! Lower overall cost! Dig less than half the Hole! and carry the equivalent of over 3,000 lbs of gravel!
Water collected from many surfaces transported via pipe to an EcoRain tank, allows for detention &/or aquifer infiltration
EcoRain Tanks assemble & connect in 10 Heights from .79″ to 7.12″ all tanks are 1.34′ wide x 2.25 long.
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We are proud Arto Brick Distributors in Southern California. Arto Brick concrete products are handcrafted to mimic natural stone, brick and ceramic tiles, but have the rugged durability of a concrete product. Arto Brick tiles can be used on walls, floors and hardscapes. Tiles, brick veneer, pavers, wall caps, pier caps, pool coping, balustrades, and more are offered in a wide variety of colors and textures to create your own look.
To order Arto Brick Tile products, please contact us at 310-450-6556 or tile@bourgetbros.com
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Olympic Gold is a smooth, sandstone flagstone with a pleasing golden hue and hints of rust detail. The flagstone pavers have a natural cleft, which make it convenient to install. This flagstone is perfect for use as pavers, on patios and decks and as thin veneer.
SIZES:
Flagstone:
1″ – 2″ thickness (4 – 8 sq. ft. pieces)
80 sq.ft./ton
Also available in matching thin wall veneer in castle cut.
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RIVER MIX CRUSHED GLASS ROCKS are sold in 5 lb. and 50 lb. bags.
Crushed glass adds sparkle & color to your landscape groundcover, fire pit, fireplace or water feature. Use River Mix to create dry bed landscape features.
This beautiful alternative to gravel is used to create dry river beds, as fountain accents, as filler for flagstone and pavers or in fire pits and fireplaces as a clean and modern alternative to logs and ceramic log systems.
SIZE CHART
Small 1/4″ to 1/2″
Medium 1/2″ to 1″
85 lbs crushed glass = approx. 1 cubic foot
PRICING
5 lbs. $13.50 per bag
50 lbs. $108.00 per bag
100-499 lbs. $2.03 per lb.
500+ lbs. $1.89 per lb.
Our crushed landscape glass are 100% recycled. If they had not been purchased and processed for this purpose, the glass would have been discarded in a local landfill. Architects may claim LEED credits or “green points” for using our glass. All our glass is made from post-consumer glass bottles from various domestic sources, including material recycling facilities in Park City, Los Angeles and other cities along the West Coast. Some of our glass is also made from recycled post-industrial glass window scraps and furnace clean outs from various window and glass product manufacturers in the Salt Lake City area and the East Coast.
Most of our glass is re-melted and re-processed to ensure a mostly consistent color and size.
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