Incorporate Visual Interest

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Inside Our Most EPIC Backyard Build Ever (6 Design Secrets)

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Add unique and custom elements to your backyard design to differentiate it and create visual appeal from every angle, both inside and outside the house. This project achieved visual interest through several features: a custom privacy wall made from Trex Modern Mill Aker material with an interesting slat design and floating shelves, the house's unique wall of glass windows, and the intricate paver design with large slabs, smaller mosaic pebbles, and circular inlays that complement the overall circular theme. These custom details prevent the backyard from looking 'regular' and add a special, personalized touch that is not commonly seen.

Goal: Make the backyard stand out with unique and eye-catching design elements

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Floating shelves N/A — Displaying plants and decorative items on the privacy wall, Large slab pavers N/A

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[music] >> Design tip number five, visual interest. We've got a really cool unique house here. We've got an entire wall of glass windows across the back. [music] We wanted to really lean into that and add as much visual interest as we could so that you can not only enjoy it while you're out here, but from inside you can [music] see it from every angle, from every room you can see the backyard. So, some of the things that we did to add that visual interest and differentiate this project [music] from just a regular boring one to something that's really interesting is things like the privacy wall. It's one of my favorite features here. It's really super unique and all we did [music] was take the material that we used. We used the modern mill uh acre, same thing that we used on the ceiling and we created this really cool interesting slat wall detail with floating shelves. It's one of my favorite things visually on this whole project [music] and it adds that nice little unique touch that's completely custom and you're not going to see in everyone else's backyard. Another thing that we did to add a lot of visual interest was our paver design here. We used that circle around the koi pond, 54-ft diameter circle >> [music] >> and then we picked it up with three circles along that to really just pick up that shape, helps round it out, helps balance the shapes across the whole backyard and we did [music] some really cool inlays with it. So, we've got a lot of different products. We used this mosaic detail around the circle. [music] We've got some big slabs, got some smaller pavers and they all work together really well to create a lot of visual interest. All those little visual details are going [music] to be what separates just a regular project from something that's really special and really unique. So, we always try to add something that is completely custom that you won't see on another project [music] and that's just unique to that house and that project. So, visual interest, [music] make sure you do it. It's going to separate your project.

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