Design Ideas: 5 Features to Include With a Pavilion in the Avon Lake and Avon, OH Areas
A pavilion can be a welcome outdoor feature on your Avon Lake and Avon, OH, area landscape by establishing a special place to relax and entertain friends and family members. To solidify your pavilion as a central entertainment location, you may also want to consider these five features in your landscape design:
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Fire Pit
Add a fire pit to the area surrounding your pavilion for a fun family gathering activity or to make your pavilion area party central. The fire pit can be constructed as part of the pavilion or a few short steps away which you can easily access by a rustic stone walkway. Invite friends over to sit around the fire pit after having a picnic under your pavilion on a warm summer day or a cool fall evening.
Outdoor Kitchen
Having an outdoor kitchen built as part of your pavilion area will bring an entertaining vibe to this space. You can set up an outdoor dining table and chairs under the pavilion where you can enjoy plentiful alfresco dining with food cooked in your outdoor kitchen. Host pizza parties with freshly prepared wood-fired pizzas from your outdoor pizza oven or sip cocktails and mocktails mixed up at your outdoor bar area. Also, when you have an outdoor kitchen added to your pavilion area, you won’t have to leave the party too often. You can do all your cooking outdoors and entertain your guests as you prepare the main course or get the appetizers ready.
Plantings
Adding plantings to the area surrounding your pavilion will give the location a natural vibe. Colorful blooms such as petunias and pansies in planters within your pavilion or hostas that surround this space can provide a range of colors against the mostly white or brown shade structure. You can consider adding flowers, plants, and shrubs that attract butterflies for an extra enjoyable component. You may want to have climbing vines added to the beams of your pavilion so it looks like this manmade structure has a more earthy element to it.
Outdoor Lighting
Add ambience to your pavilion area with strategically installed outdoor lighting. Include uplight features to this space, to brighten up your pavilion area without being too harsh of a lighting effect. Create a dramatic entryway to your pavilion with walkway lighting that offers a gentle glow from your back door to the yard area.
Retaining Wall
When you add a retaining wall on one or multiple sides of your pavilion, you can achieve a few different goals. First, you’ll provide an extra seating area for people to gather and take part in the conversation. This extra seating option is especially helpful if you entertain a lot and don’t want to clutter the pavilion area with too many chairs. A retaining wall also provides a privacy aspect to your pavilion, especially if you have retaining walls built around the majority of the pavilion’s perimeter. Lastly, when you have a retaining wall added to the area where your pavilion is located, you’ll be designating your primary entertaining space, helping to create the sense of a party atmosphere.
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