Backyard Design Ideas

Your backyard landscaping should match your lifestyle. Whether you want a place to entertain guests or curl up with a good book, keep the kids happy. or cater to your family’s love of barbecue, Eco Minded Solutions has landscape design ideas for you.

Explore the options for reimagining your outdoor space. Then, contact Eco Minded Solutions in San Diego, CA to schedule a free backyard landscape design consultation.

Backyard Landscape & Xeriscape Design for San Diego Homes

You undoubtedly want to incorporate grass, trees, and shrubs into your backyard landscaping plans. The trick is to minimize the impact these additions have on your water consumption. Xeriscaping is the key.

Xeriscapes incorporate drought-tolerant plants native to Southern California to create a lush setting with the lowest possible water and energy usage. Xeriscaping is particularly beneficial for filling a small yard with eye-catching plants. Our backyard landscape designers can bring your ideas to life for beautiful, low-maintenance results.

Backyard Hardscapes

Along with tastefully arranged plantings, your backyard can benefit from the addition of hardscapes, including patios, paved walkways, stairs, pergolas, retaining walls, and anything else constructed from concrete, stone, brick, or wood. The more hardscapes you incorporate into the design, the lower-maintenance your backyard becomes.

Backyard Fire Features

While San Diego has warm weather all year round, a fire pit is the perfect way to keep the fun going on a chilly evening. Gather round and roast marshmallows with the kids, or relax with a glass of wine and a good book. A fire feature is sure to add value and function to your backyard landscape, no matter how you plan to use it.

Backyard Water Features

Nothing creates a sense of calm like a trickling waterfall or bubbling fountain. Maybe you want to introduce more life into your backyard with a stylish koi pond or multi-level water feature. You might also dream of a backyard with a pool for family and friends to enjoy throughout the year thanks to the gorgeous San Diego weather. Whatever your wish, our San Diego landscape architects and designers can design and build it.

Outdoor Kitchens

It’s one thing to wheel a portable grill onto your patio to whip up some burgers. It’s another thing entirely to have a bona fide outdoor kitchen complete with built-in grill, oven, griddle, sink, refrigerator, and dishwasher. Add an extended counter and bar stools and the party can really get started!

Outdoor Living Rooms

Who wants to sit inside when the beautiful Southern California weather beckons? With a covered outdoor living room, you can enjoy all the comforts of home—including a fireplace, sofa, and TV—in an outdoor space where ocean breezes freely blow by. Consider hanging a hammock or installing a porch swing to increase comfort and provide more seating in the family’s favorite hangout spot.

Backyard Landscape Design Styles

The key to creating a coherent backyard landscape design is to choose a style and stick with it. You have numerous options to choose from, including:

• Modern/contemporary landscaping
• Mediterranean landscaping
• Tropical landscaping
• Formal/English landscaping
• Zen landscaping
• Feng Shui landscaping

The backyard designers, landscapers and local contractors at our San Diego firm have experience designing and building low-maintenance backyards in each of the styles mentioned above, plus many others. If you have specific ideas about what you want to include, please let us know!

Schedule a Backyard Design and Landscaping Consultation in San Diego, CA

Nowhere in the world has better weather than Southern California. This gives you ample opportunity to convert your boring, small yard into a spectacular space for relaxing and entertaining. Let us bring your backyard to life with plants and pavers, fire pits and fountains, kitchens and couches. With these additions, you’ll enjoy outdoor living like never before.

To begin your backyard landscaping transformation, please contact Eco Minded Solutions in San Diego today.

Some of the locations in and around San Diego our backyard design and landscaping experts serve include: Del Mar, Carlsbad, Rancho Santa Fe, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Ocean Beach, Rancho Peñasquitos, Torrey Pines, University Heights, Scripps Ranch, Point Loma, Cardiff, Del Mar Heights, Pacific Beach, University City, 4s Ranch, Carmel Valley, Clairemont, La Jolla, La Mesa, Bankers Hill, Allied Gardens, Del Cerro, Carmel Valley, Fletcher Hills and more.