He loves golf, she loves to entertain, so we created the perfect outdoor living area that will help their family make memories for years to come! At Outdoor Innovations, over the past two years, we have discovered that people are returning to a simpler time where memories are made and good times are had at home, in your own backyard. When we embarked on what we affectionately dubbed “The Putting Green Project” that was our goal for this lovely family Take a look at our latest video for a tour of this amazing outdoor living space, we hope that you find inspiration, and ideas for your own home!
Features of This Outdoor Living Area
This backyard has it all! There is something for everyone:
Not just one fire feature, but two!There is one fire feature enhancing the beautiful water feature and colorful flowers surround it, as well as one built in under the big flat screen TV in the pavilion. This feature is reminiscent of an indoor fireplace to cozy up to year round, making this entertainment area extra special!
A stunning and colorful water feature. Nothing says “relaxation” like the sight and sound of our water features. Now this family can relax in comfort with this beautiful addition.
A pavilion with cozy furniture and entertainment area. Perfect for movie or game night, we built this eye-catching pavilion and outfitted it with a big screen TV, comfortable and stylish outdoor furniture. Don’t forget that 2nd fire feature to finish it off! Makes you want to stay outside all night!
An outdoor cook’s dream! Here you see the cooking area, including the grill, beverage cooler, and refrigerator. With ample countertop space, and the nearby bar area, the whole family will jump to be cook for the night!
Gorgeous, well placed LED lighting. All around this amazing space, we installed LED lighting to bring out the beauty of the evening so fun can be had at all hours. It is so easy to imagine unwinding with your family under a star lit sky, when you see this image!
We saved the best for last! For the golf lover in this family (and it could be yours!) we constructed this professional grade putting green. Be ready for the golf course with practice at home, or just have fun putting with family with this special feature!
What is Your Dream?
Now that you have had a chance to see an example of what we can do for you, what is your dream? At Outdoor Innovations, nothing makes us happier than seeing the smiles on our clients faces when we complete a project. Knowing that the family we have worked with will enjoy their outdoor living area for years to come, while making new memories is what we love about what we do. Contact us today to discuss what inspires you and your dreams for your home. We can sit down together and design the perfect space for you!
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Introducing Inspirations! A Visit to the Outdoor Innovations Gardens
Get Inspired: Your Next Landscaping Ideas
We would like to introduce you to our series called “Inspirations.” Which will feature the gardens located at Outdoor Innovations. We invite you to take a stroll with Ken Hoffman, one of the owners. He will show you some of his favorite pieces and features. It is our hope that you will draw inspiration from these original, exciting landscaping options. The garden at Outdoor Innovations is meant to be a starting point for landscaping ideas. We want to help you dream up the perfect outdoor living space for you and your family.
Ken’s Outlook on Creating and Innovating Outdoor Landscapes
As you will learn, Ken’s passion is creating beautiful spaces. “I enjoy creating things, that is what inspires me, that is what gets me up every day.” Ken loves to build and create things that people can see, touch, feel, and enjoy. At the gardens at Outdoor Innovations, you will find a plethora of exciting, innovative examples of what can be done for you. As you stroll through the garden, Ken hopes that a piece or two would be a perfect fit and something to build upon as you dream up your perfect design.
Landscaping Ideas Brought to Reality
After you have taken in all the breathtaking options, Ken and his team will work with you to come up with the perfect outdoor design. Your design will fit your ideas as well as your budget. Once the team has learned about your lifestyle, interests, and values, they will create the design. A 3-D rendering will be made for you so that you can see your design with all the elements you have chosen. There is no project too big or small, anything can be done: if you dream it, Outdoor Innovations can create it!
The Options Are Limitless
There are so many options that you can choose from when creating an outdoor living space:
If you are thinking about a new outdoor living space, or just adding some features such as a sculpture, water feature, or new lighting, contact the team at Outdoor Innovations. We will put our passion to work for you!
Escape the Ordinary With Water Features By Outdoor Innovations
Water Features Create an Outdoor Oasis Right Outside Your Door
Life is full of stress, busy days, and mundane everyday activities. We would all use a little getaway! Now more than ever, a special place to call your own has never been more welcome. A perfect way to escape the ordinary is to add stunning and relaxing water features created just how you envision it, by Outdoor Innovations. Whatever peaceful retreat you have in your imagination can be brought to life.
Waterfalls, Streams, Fountains, and More!
At Outdoor Innovations, we can create just about any type of water feature that you can dream up! Have you been to a special place that left a memory worth recreating? Share your ideas with us and we can come up with a water feature unique to your vision. We offer many options:
Many of us are drawn to nature and have a love for the outdoors. It is not always possible to drop everything in our day-to-day lives and venture out. By adding the sights and sounds that accompany a water feature you get the feeling of being in a natural setting without the need to leave home.
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There are Many Materials to Choose From, and a Lot of Options
Open your imagination and think of the possibilities! You can add a stunning waterfall next to your pool, or a babbling brook can wind its way through your backyard. You can incorporate fire features, boulder creations, unique fountains, and much, much more. The use of natural elements such as stones, logs, trees, and bushes can transform your outdoor living space. You can include a water feature near family recreation areas, as well as patios and outdoor kitchen and entertainment areas. The professionals at Outdoor Innovations can collaborate with you and come up with a plan that is perfect for you and your family to enjoy for years to come! Contact us today to learn more about what we can do for you, we look forward to hearing from you.
Outdoor Innovations Makes Beautiful Places
There are so many ways to make your home or business look beautiful. Outdoor Innovations has the skill, talent, and materials to bring the best out of your property.
Outdoor Living Area
Our design team will make your outdoor living area a thing of beauty, while still being a useful space.
Imagine a quiet summer weekend, cool wind blowing, the kids playing as you entertain your friends in your backyard. Do you have a mental image of your dream outdoor living area? The design experts at Outdoor Innovations can help make your dream a reality.
We will sit down and talk with you, to get a feel for what you are wanting to do. We’ll then take our notes and use a computer program to make your thoughts a 3D rendering. We can add landscaping with trees, flowers, and shrubs. Our team of professionals can also water and fire features, in addition to retaining walls and columns.
Perhaps you imagine a nice walking path with accent lighting and other details. We have the experience and imagination to bring your outdoor living space to life. No matter if you are located in the Quad Cities, or one of the many surrounding towns like Geneseo, Sherrard, or LeClaire, we can come to your place and work with you to plan the next step in making your outdoor living area a jewel in the neighborhood.
Some other options and accents we offer include:
Pavers
Poolscapes
Landscaping
Mulch
Pottery Fountains
Fire Pits
We will handle everything from start to finish, communicating with you the entire time to ensure your satisfaction. We’ve worked hard to gain an outstanding reputation for quality workmanship, creative designs, and stellar customer service.
Contact Outdoor Innovations today for a consultation on making your outdoor living area dreams a reality. We look forward to hearing from you whether you are a homeowner or you have commercial property. We have the tools, personnel, and passion for making your outdoor living area the talk of the town.
Water Features
We can install water features in your backyard, recreating bubbling creeks, tranquil ponds, and waterfalls.
We all know the importance water plays in everyday life. It is one of the basic elements that all people, plants, and animals need to survive. However, water also has another effect on many people, it reduces stress and evokes memories of places we have been or thoughts of places we would like to go.
Be it on vacation, in nature, on television or in a movie we have all seen those beautiful mountain streams, rocky creeks, and quaint waterfalls, which get us thinking about what it would be like to recreate and enjoy that look every day in our backyard.
The popularity of water in the landscape continues to grow and has become one of the top requested features that we are asked to design and install.
With all of the high-quality water feature products and natural stone materials available today, we can virtually recreate any look in nature or just create a unique custom water feature that fits your vision.
If you enjoy the sights and sounds that water features create, not to mention the relaxing effects it can have, give us a call to learn more about:
Ponds
Streams
Waterfalls
Wall Fountains
Water Bowls
Pottery Fountains
Pondless Water Features
Boulder Creations
Fire Features
Sitting around a fire with friends is always memorable. Outdoor Innovations can create a fire feature for your outdoor entertainment area. Safer and more aesthetic than a portable one, our fire features are long-lasting and beautiful.
Most people when asked would agree that sitting around a fire is not only relaxing but also brings back many fond memories of times spent with family and friends.
Creating your own private backyard fire feature can be more affordable than you may think and also comes with certain advantages.
How Does a Fire Feature Benefit Your Outdoor Entertainment Area?
One main advantage of having a permanent location for your fire features is that we can customize it to your specific needs. A customized fire feature is also more aesthetically pleasing to be around and is typically safer than most portable units.
It has been said that “we don’t remember days; we remember moments”.
So when you are ready to start creating those moments give Outdoor Innovations a call and let us design and install the fire feature of your dreams.
Customized Fire Features Enhance and Beautify
We have many fire feature options to choose from. We’ll work with you to create a design that adds functionality, value, and beauty while matching and enhancing your already existing landscaping and outdoor entertainment features:
Fire Pits
Fire Bowls
Gas Burning Fire Features
Wood Burning Fire Features
Outdoor Fireplaces
Poolscaping
Poolscaping is a term used to describe how the area around a pool is enhanced to complement the pool itself.
With work and family schedules becoming increasingly hectic, a trend towards wanting an enjoyable, relaxing vacation style environment available anytime that is located just steps out your backdoor has more people choosing to invest in their homes and outdoor spaces in place of expensive, short-lived vacations that can have questionable outcomes.
Benefits of Custom Poolscaping
If a swimming pool is within your budget, make sure to remember that how you complete the area around the pool is equally as important as the pool itself.
The area around the pool should not only be functional but also should be a direct reflection of your lifestyle.
We will work with you to determine how you plan to use this area and what features would create the lifestyle that you deserve.
Shade Structures
Outdoor Kitchens
Lighting
Heat Sources
Plantings
Furniture
Fire Features
Water Features
Brick Paver Patios
Seat Walls
Make Your Poolscape Vision a Reality
Outdoor Innovations has the experience and resources to coordinate and install every last detail that you would want or need to complete the poolscape of your dreams.
This is why we have become the Quad Cities landscape contractor of choice when quality and experience are a top priority.
Outdoor Lighting
LED lights for virtually every outdoor application including decorative paths, low profile hardscape lights, water features, decks and patios, and accent lighting.
There are a lot of uses for outdoor lighting: security, accents, safety, and more. You need to make sure you have the right light for the job and Outdoor Innovations can assist you with those decisions.
Security
When you mention security lighting, some people think about floodlights in a prison yard or spotlights. You can protect your home and property with attractive looking lights that will still fill the area with a high-intensity light. We can work them into the surrounding landscape, so they are unobtrusive until they are needed.
Safety
If you have walkways and steps, proper lighting is a must. Trip and fall injuries are the #1 claim on homeowners’ insurance. Our lighting systems can use low wattage lights or solar lights to keep your pathways lit, without running up your electric bill.
Accents
Your home and property can be lit with lighting that is both useful and decorative. Let the designers at Outdoor Innovations work with you to make the most out of the available lighting possibilities. We want to make your place stand out both day and night.
Contact us today to learn more about all the lighting options we have for your home and landscaping projects. We have the experience and creativity to make your place look unique and beautiful. We look forward to working with you to make your home or business a showpiece in the area.
Outdoor Innovations in Aledo is here to help you with all your landscaping and beautification needs in Bettendorf, Moline, and the surrounding area.
