Design ideas
Design Ideas for Yards Across the Fox Valley
A reference set to help you describe what you want before we walk the site — patios, walls, walkways, poured surfaces and planting, with a note on what makes each one work.
Sample inspiration images. Not Lux projects. Every photograph below is licensed stock used to illustrate a type of work. None of it shows a job built by Lux Landscaping Construction. As our own projects are finished and photographed they will replace these, and this page will say so.
Reference set
Twelve ideas, and what makes each one work
Each image links to the service page that explains how that kind of work is built here.
Hardscaping A seat wall doubles the usable seating on a patio without adding furniture.
How it is built
Hardscaping A fire pit set away from the house gives a yard a second destination.
How it is built
Hardscaping A walkway laid wide enough for two people reads as an entrance, not a path.
How it is built
Hardscaping A contrasting border course gives a paver driveway a finished edge.
How it is built
Hardscaping A low wall can turn an unusable slope into level, planted ground.
How it is built
Hardscaping Natural stone varies piece to piece, which is the point of using it.
How it is built
Concrete A poured path can take a curve that modular units cannot.
How it is built
Concrete Large-format units and tight joints keep a patio surface reading as one plane.
How it is built
Landscaping & Lawn Care One heavy element anchors a planting bed better than several light ones.
How it is built
Landscaping & Lawn Care Boulders need to be set into the ground, not placed on it, to look native.
How it is built
Landscaping & Lawn Care Seen from above, a yard is a set of rooms connected by paths.
How it is built
Artificial Turf Turf holds its edge in the places real grass struggles to grow.
How it is built
Our own work
This page will change
We would rather show you nothing than show you someone else's job with our name under it. Photographs of finished Lux Landscaping Construction projects go here as they are completed, with the town named only where the homeowner is happy for it to be.
Already have a scheme or a photo of something you like? Send it to luxlandconstruction@gmail.com and we will tell you what it would take to build it on your ground.
Aurora and communities within about 30 miles
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