Turn your unused backyard real estate into an inviting escape with help from Past the Gate. We specialize in creating year-round outdoor living in the Bay Area climate. Our high-end, custom outdoor living solutions stand out from cookie-cutter designs. We know the perfect combination of outdoor living amenities to ensure a successful backyard makeover.
Tips for year-round outdoor living space design in California:
- Ensure shelter from the elements with integrated patio covers
- Extend evening enjoyment with outdoor lighting
- Provide warmth and comfort with a fire feature, patio heaters, and cozy furnishings
- Enhance beauty and function with native, drought-tolerant plants and trees
Ensure Shelter from the Elements
For all-season use, our backyard design experts highly recommend incorporating an outdoor shelter. It’s the perfect way to facilitate indoor-outdoor flow and worry-free access to your space, no matter the weather. You have many options to weatherproof your outdoor living space, including fixed-roof pavilions with ceiling fans and recessed lighting. However, retractable canopies and motorized louvered pergolas offer the best of both worlds, allowing you to enjoy sun, shade, or shelter with the flick of a button.
Extend Evening Enjoyment with Outdoor Lighting
Ensure outdoor living use at any time of day with integrated lighting installed by our landscape design experts. Add task lighting over your kitchen and grill, ambient lighting around stairs and pathways, accent lighting to highlight key outdoor living features and plant life, and string lighting and lanterns for ambiance. Smart, low-voltage LED lighting systems equipped with smart timers and dimmers let you change settings at the touch of a button to manage tasks, set the mood, and ensure safety.
Provide Warmth and Comfort
Our luxury backyard contractors know that incorporating outdoor heating solutions will maximize outdoor living room use and enjoyment. A custom-designed fire pit, fire table, or fireplace offers an ideal focal point, drawing people together when temperatures drop. Paired with overhead or freestanding infrared patio heaters and cozy, comfortable cushioned outdoor furnishings, pillows, throws, and rugs, you can rest assured of a warm, enjoyable space year-round.
Enhance Beauty and Function with Plants and Trees
In addition to lush good looks, the right combination of drought-resistant, native landscaping can provide cool shade, a windbreak, or privacy and noise reduction. Our experienced landscape architects can help you select the perfect plant life to meet your needs, including evergreens and trees, as well as popular perennials and annuals to provide seasonal color and support local pollinators, ensuring year-round beauty and interest.
Add Beauty and Function with a Backyard Makeover
Creating year-round outdoor living in the Bay Area climate can be a breeze with help from an experienced landscape architect. Contact Past the Gate at 925-387-6731 to schedule a landscape design consultation in Walnut Creek, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Oakland, Napa, Danville, Orinda, Pleasanton, San Ramon, Alamo, or Moraga today.
