5 Great Retaining Wall Design Ideas

Northern Virginia is full of sloped yards and homeowners who want to manage those slopes. Retaining walls help create more flat space, but it’s important to protect your investment by using a retaining wall design company with the right engineering skills to manage your land and water. One of these 5 retaining wall design ideas could work well for your yard:

1. A Patio on the Hill

A retaining wall can give you more flat space for a larger patio where you can add a fire pit, planters or lounge furniture for entertaining.

2. Retaining Wall Materials

Depending on your slope and your tastes, your retaining wall design ideas can come to life with several different wall materials, including: brick, block, keystone, concrete, rock, or stone. You can choose colors and textures that fit well within the environment and your design scheme.

3. Shape Your Retaining Wall

Depending on the needed height and the natural environment, why go for a straight-line retaining wall? Some curves actually fit the landscape and hold back the land better. Waves, curves, scallop patterns, etc. can give your yard a great deal of interest and creativity.

4. Additional Features for Your Retaining Wall

If budget, time and taste allow, why not boost your retaining wall from just a wall to a thing of beauty. Consider adding fire pits, planters, fountains, ponds or even outdoor art and sculpture to your retaining wall design ideas list.

5. Terracing

When working with particularly large slopes, a terraced system of graduated retaining walls with layers for planters and water features for drainage would work better and more reliably than one very high retaining wall.

Contact us today at AllGreen Landscaping Co. with your retaining wall design ideas: (703) 992-8787