Scenic Landscaping Architecture NJ is ready to design your outdoor look more beautiful. We help to modify your outdoor spaces with different elements within the landscape, like stacked stone walls, water gardens and a variety of plant materials, can provide a wealth of sensory-soothing elements to view.

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Outdoor Living Made Beautiful
The move is on—indoor spaces are heading out! Already prevalent on the West coast, this
landscaping trend has migrated here to the East as more and more homeowners discover the joys
and convenience of entertaining outdoors. They’re spurred in part by the growing number of
products, once typically used only for interiors, being designed with outdoor living in mind. Today,
rooms that are inside your home are also being created for outside living. For example, an outdoor
kitchen can be designed fully equipped with a BBQ, refrigerator, kegerator, wine cooler, sink, TV, or
even a stereo system. Outdoor fireplaces and fire pits have also joined the trend. After all, who
wouldn’t love to gather around an inviting backyard fire while enjoying a glass of wine and discussing
the day’s news with family and friends? If the thought of chilling and basking in all the comforts of
outdoor luxury sounds tempting, sit back and take a visual tour of some of the landscape scenes
created for area residents by the service professionals at Scenic Landscaping. They might just spur
your imagination and desire to create an outdoor oasis for your own heavenly home retreat.
Above: Combining different elements within the landscape, like stacked stone walls, water gardens and a variety of
plant materials, can provide a wealth of sensory-soothing elements to view, hear and smell throughout the season.
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Above: The addition of an outside kitchen alongside a patio creates an idyllic outdoor dining space that
surrounds you and your guests with the sounds and sights of your garden.
Above: Designing an outdoor kitchen with a pergola creates the sense of an outdoor series of rooms. You can either
cook and dine at the BBQ center or enjoy more enclosed dining within the pergola.
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Above: Featuring mixes of Fieldstone
walls, bluestone patios and steps
with a variety of plantings, this
secluded woodland oasis enjoys
views to the unique gardens beyond.
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Below: Your landscape, if designed properly, can be a series of connected outdoor rooms, each with its
own theme and purpose. The sound of moving water provides a place to relax while your connection to
the adjoining areas allows you to stay involved in all that’s happening in the landscape.
Left: Inspired by the historic formal gardens of France and England,
columnar trees and clipped boxwood hedges overflowing with masses
of roses add a classic touch. Complementing the design, the profusion
of annual color helps define the shapes of the garden spaces.
For more information on Scenic Landscaping and its services, call
(973) 616-9600 or visit www.sceniclandscaping.com.
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