A Westminster Customer’s Story Short

CREATING AN OUTDOOR SANCTUARY FOR LIVING AND ENTERTAINING

Janelle Pelletier and her husband, Scott, were frustrated with their outdoor living spaces. Their back patio was too small to be useable. It didn’t allow enough space to place furniture or entertain, and the steps built around the edges made it dangerous. Scott complained that the colored finish flaking off of the concrete made the patio unattractive.

The Pelletiers wanted to enhance their original landscape. Several trees in the backyard were dying and some plants had outgrown the original beds. The front yard lacked the appeal Janelle wanted.

After seeing our ad in The Home Mag, Janell reached out to Bruce Wilhelm, one of our Landscape Imagineers, and booked an initial free consultation. Bruce listened to their concerns and design ideas and offered to develop a plan that addressed all of them. By continuing the discovery process and engaging our design team, we were able to create a design and project plan that transformed their outdoor living spaces into the inviting and functional areas that supported their lifestyle.

THE DESIGN PROCESS

Bruce and our design team worked closely with Janelle to refine the design, discuss options and costs, and the construction requirements. The process resulted in a project that addressed their lifestyle and was in line with their budget. 

  Our experience with Outdoor Design Colorado was great from the beginning. They gave us suggestions so we could incorporate what we wanted. Throughout the design process, we went back and forth and exchanged ideas. It was collaborative. I would absolutely recommend Outdoor Design Colorado.
Janelle Pelletier

Our attention to detail and construction experience allowed us to save the Pelletiers money by expanding and overlaying the new patio and steps on top of the existing patio. We created a more inviting, usable and safer space by incorporating a seat wall  enclosing the space that was a hazard in the original patio. The existing paver walkway was extended to connect to the entry of the back patio.

In addition to the backyard hardscape, Janelle wanted to enhance their landscape. The backyard landscape needed changes that replaced overgrown trees, created more aesthetically pleasing areas and offered more screening from their neighbors’ yards. The work in the front yard included remaking the driveway so it winds and rebuilding and repairing the front entry porch making it more inviting.  We worked with Janelle to modernize the front planting areas by incorporating more trees and shrubbery and reducing lawn areas. 

CONSTRUCTION

The Pelleitiers were happy with the care and quality of the construction. Additions and minor changes to the design were incorporated during construction and resulted in better matching their aesthetics.  

The project included an expansive back patio space, incorporating a pergola, adding lighting throughout, enhanced backyard landscape, extended paver walkway, reimagining and landscaping the front yard, widening the driveway and rebuilding the front porch area..