Replace your lawn with a spacious patio for entertainment and eliminate lawn mowing. This family built a lovely outside seating area with planting beds.
Sloped backyards make mowing more difficult and exercise-inducing. In their slope, this home's owners created an outdoor seating area with a solid pergola providing shade.
This California landscape's designer replaced a mostly dead lawn with a delicate, airy palette of drought-tolerant ornamental grasses and other plants.
Widening garden walks reduces lawn work and adds living space. An extra-wide flagstone path leads to a large patio.
Don't scrimp on decks and patios. Covering more space gives you more possibilities. You can add more comfortable big furnishings and mow less lawn.
An in-ground pool that connects four modest entertaining areas replaced the lawn in this suburban backyard.
To avoid that hard effort, the owners of this sloping property created a wide path through terraced garden beds with drought-tolerant plants.
Before remodeling this backyard, the only view was a dying green lawn suffering under the trees.