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Experienced Landscapers

Our experienced professionals can help you design a hardscape that utilizes existing outdoor features to improve your customers’ experience and extend gathering and entertaining space so your customers can spend more time in natural surroundings.

Comprehensive Site Analysis

Our planning will include a site analysis to factor in existing features that must be accounted for in the hardscape design. This includes measurements, photos, and a visual inspection of your property.

Design Review

Once the initial plan has been developed, we will review the design with you. The design will illustrate how the planned space coincides with your actual property and the relationship between the sizes of specific design elements.

Artistry and Excellence

The Grounds Guys are on a mission to cultivate lasting relationships through exceptional customer service. We deliver artistry and excellence with every job so that you can expect a seamless experience from design to project completion.

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Reviewing and Finalizing the Design

Once we’ve formed an initial plan, we’ll review the hardscape contrast and the differences in tone, texture, or mass between the various hardscape design elements. We will also consider the ecological aspect to create a landscape design that is compatible with the site’s environment in terms of appearance and sustainability without negatively impacting the surrounding environment.

During the design review stage, we will confirm your specific landscape goals, offer ideas based on our experience, and discuss the overall scope of work. But your hardscape goals and vision will guide the process and determine the final design, not our style and/or preferences. We’ll consider things like existing structures, required maintenance, and any restrictions before finalizing your design. During the hardscape design process, you’ll receive a basic drawing or plan containing the details and footprints of key elements within the design.

Once installation has begun, changes to the original scope of work will be initiated through a change order. Once requested changes are reviewed and approved, they will be implemented.

What are my commercial hardscape design options?

If you own or operate a restaurant or eatery, an outdoor kitchen can be a practical, functional, and resourceful use of space. It may also impress customers who see you utilize available space to produce fresh ingredients for your business. These are often constructed in an island configuration where guests can gather around, socialize, and even take part in the cooking experience. Common elements include a barbecue grill island with storage, a mini-fridge, a pizza oven, a flat-top grill, and a smoker.
Here are some other hardscape design options that can enhance the features and functionality of your business:
Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire Pits: Take the party outdoors with the ambiance that only a fire can provide. A fireplace or fire pit creates an ideal atmosphere for customers or small parties to gather and converse.
Xeriscaping: This type of hardscaping often incorporates rocks, stone, and gravel. This design reduces water usage and requires minimal maintenance while improving biodiversity, lowering pollution, and mitigating heat within urban areas. We utilize native/indigenous vegetation instead of store-bought grass and imported plants to retain water and minimize supplemental irrigation.
Dry Creek Beds: A dry creek bed is lined with large, medium, and smaller stones and edged with plants to mimic a natural creek or riverbank. We often use dry creek beds to guide or divert rainwater to prevent erosion during runoff following heavy rainfall.
Outcropping or Accent Stones: Accent stones can be integrated into a landscape as centerpieces, functional structure elements, or to fill gaps where plants struggle to survive. Outcropping stones are larger natural stones stacked or placed strategically within the landscape.
Brick or Stone Borders: Defining the edges of your landscape with a brick or stone border looks beautiful. This helps to differentiate your beds from the lawn or encircle trees with a small border.
Paver Driveways: A paver driveway enhances curb appeal, adding classic and modern aesthetics to your business’s outdoor space. Pavers are highly durable, so your driveway will hold up for decades under all the weight and wear of vehicles. These driveways significantly outlast driveways made of asphalt or concrete.
Sitting Walls: This type of wall is usually double-sided and free-standing. We use sitting walls to help define outdoor living spaces by enhancing their geometry and design. They provide additional seating in your outdoor space as well.
Stairs: Whether constructed using wood, natural stone, or wall stone with a paver overlay, adding structural access to your outdoor area is a functional element to your landscape.
Pillars: Pillars are a focal point and add a vertical element to your landscape. They are often used at the end of sitting walls. They are used to welcome guests at the entrance of your business or the entrance of your parking area.
Decks: A deck can be a gathering place for your customers or employees to enjoy special memories together. Whether you choose a natural wood or composite finish, a deck can add an aesthetic appeal to the exterior of your business.
Patios: A patio can be for your customers and/or employees. It can also be an additional room that extends outside. The extension can be constructed of pavers or natural stone, and we can add it to your existing patio or build a new one to meet your specific needs.
Fences & Gates: The benefits of fencing are security, screening, privacy, and peace of mind. With wood, vinyl, or aluminum options, our fences are built to last and look good, too.
Trellis, Pergola, Pavilions: Adding structural features to provide screening, shade, or elevation to your outdoor space will enhance the aesthetics and beauty of your landscape. These are often made of wood, vinyl, or aluminum.

What hardscape design ideas do The Grounds Guys have?

While reviewing and considering different hardscape options with you, we take into account your business’s current layout and configuration to incorporate the best hardscape design features. For example, adding a paved area in the landscape can provide a relaxing place to sit and enjoy the day or serve as an outdoor bar for customers.
In some cases, we may suggest including unique contrasting borders and inlays to enhance the aesthetic beauty of your hardscape project. Here are some other hardscape options to consider:
Retaining walls: These walls can serve several purposes. Structurally, they help hold back soil and minimize erosion. They can also provide a transitional elevation change while adding a decorative element to your business.
Planter boxes: Commonly used to grow edibles like vegetables and herbs. They can also provide a special place to bring colorful plantings into an outdoor gathering space.
Paving stones, bricks, flagstone, and natural stone: These hardscape elements can add visual appeal and a practical element to outdoor paths and/or walkways. These features can also help guide people through your created outdoor oasis.
The benefit and beauty of hardscape is that the design is not limited to pavers, rocks, stones, and walls. There are a variety of hardscape design options that can enhance your business through functionality and visual appeal.

What sets The Grounds Guys apart?

As a nationally recognized leader of premiere landscape services, The Grounds Guys always put our customers first. We understand that the exterior of your property is, in a sense, an extension of your business. It projects so much about your company to the public, employees, and customers.
As a result, we hold our employees to a high professional standard and expect excellence in execution on every job. In addition to prioritizing your needs, we are also good stewards of our communities and the environment. We know how to capture and translate your vision into a great design and craft a hardscape that meets your needs, suits your preferences, and helps attract customers.

How can commercial hardscape design improve curb appeal and customer experience?

If you own or operate a business, you understand the importance of maintaining a good appearance. A professionally designed hardscape can help your business stand out positively with employees and customers.
A business with a well-designed hardscape can also use it as a calling card for potential customers and create a sense of employee pride. However, designing a beautiful hardscape for your business takes considerable time, effort, and planning.
When designing a hardscape, we apply elements of unity, scale, balance, harmony, simplicity, symmetry, functionality, variety, emphasis, and sequence to creatively integrate lines, form, texture, and color to create a design you and your customers appreciate, and your employees will be proud of.