à La Carte | Additional Creative Services from Makaira Landscape & Design
Residential Master Planning
Makaira Landscape is a turnkey operation that can fulfill the complete landscape for your property and then maintain it and enrich it for years to come. Our residential master planning involves the full spectrum of services all focused on an integrated plan that establishes your concept and meets with your personal taste.
Outdoor Kitchens
Makaira Landscape is your full-service resource for custom outdoor kitchens, outdoor fireplaces, fire pits, and pergola's. We can create a perfect extended space with any hardscape material including pavers, etched concrete and much more. Our patios are created to protect you from the elements when accompanied by a custom built pool cabana or screened room enclosure. Our knowledgeable team has experience with the conceptualization and construction of all sizes and varieties of outdoor kitchen whether the purpose is to create a cozy family space or a lavish spread to entertain the fussiest of friends. We enjoy our work and that keen interest will be more than evident as your project takes shape and becomes the new focus of your private grounds.
Fountains
Fountains are often the focal point of a beautiful landscape whether they are placed against a brick wall or surrounded by a spring in the middle of your courtyard. They not only add an element of bubbling beauty but they can also backboard a comforting white noise that pulls you away from the busy world into a space all your own. With this special appeal to the senses of sight and sound they are often the most remembered part of your landscaped space. With shimmering waters, cool evening lights, dancing mist and the pitter patter of raindrops, a well thought out fountain can be the most exciting enhancement to your architectural framework.
Courtyards and Gardens
The courtyard is typically a cozy space set apart by implied walls whether free standing or a part of the physical architecture surrounding the space. With any variety of uses these spaces all tend to have some things in common including a feeling of insulation from the surroundings and a sense of space not unlike the indoor counterpart. At Makaira Landscape we pay particular attention to the scale of the courtyard with an eye toward developing the space in proportion to the surroundings and integrating the concept into the entire landscape and arthitectural environment. We look for transitional elements that create a flow from one aspect or space to the next monumental our minified cadences will echo the entirety of the project. The use of brick walls, trellises or even hanging vines can emancipate the center and create the most comfortable spaces ever known. And the addition of a focal point in the form of a grand sclupture or beautiful fountain can create a feeling of warmth and invitation that draws guests throughout the day and throughout the year.
Entryways
Makaira addresses an entry as a transitional space where you move from the outside world to your personal space as your landscape experience begins. Our creative use of hardscape interwined with your landscape is also geared to provide visual and noise barriers for some project areas. For neighborhoods we often use unique fencing materials and plants to define boundaries for the subdivision and create a sense of enclosure while with the smaller spaces any variety of architectural textures in combination with ground plants and vines or trellises can form the perfect passage.
We often use creative markers to mark the edge or beginning of the new personal space. For some projects we recommend signage and entry monuments to distinguish and create character for a new space whether it is as small as the entry of a courtyard or the opening of a neighborhood subdivision.
Landscape Graphics
Our creative team can conceptualize your landscape to complement any existing or proposed environment. Just supply us with photos, renderings, plans, or a hand sketch and we can propose planning to fit your requirements. Upon receipt of your project layout, sketch or description, our ideas will provide you with a landscape service estimate for your project from which you can quickly make decisions about the affordability and feasability of your concept. If all is in order the real work will quickly begin!
Notice as well that we offer this skill set for anything from proposing a gateway concept to the Civil Service Commission to illustrating tent positions for a wedding reception venue! We are adept at evaluating a piece of property for a real-estate professional to get it into our marketing graphic style and this enables the real-estate professional or anyone else to advertise their property with a grandeur otherwise not available. Conceptual. Beautiful. Over the top!