Patios, walls, shade, and fire — built as part of the garden's design, so the built space and the planting grow together.
Flagstone, pavers, and decomposed granite — the floors of your outdoor rooms and the routes between them.
Low walls that double as seating, fire bowls and fire pits that make the garden a destination after dark.
Pergolas, arbors, and shade sails placed where the afternoon sun says they should be — not where the catalog photo had them.
Low-voltage lighting that extends the evening — paths lit for feet, plantings lit for atmosphere, nothing lit like a parking lot.
We choose materials that belong in a California garden and get better with age: natural flagstone, decomposed granite, board-formed concrete softened with hardwood seat caps, cedar that silvers in the sun. The goal is a built space that looks like it grew up with the planting around it — because in a Del Oro design, it did.
Hardscape designed without the garden gives you a slab with shrubs around it. We design them together — grasses that catch the light at the patio's edge, a seat wall that borrows its backdrop from the sage behind it, paths that reveal the garden instead of just crossing it. That's the difference between concrete in a yard and a room the garden holds.
Request a consultation and we'll confirm a time to walk the space and talk about the rooms your garden could hold.
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