3 Landscape Design Ideas that Accentuate an Outdoor Kitchen in a Southborough, MA, Area Home

If your outdoor kitchen will be the highlight of your new landscape design, proper planning will be necessary for the changes ahead at your Southborough, MA, home. These landscape design ideas can give you a fresh perspective on how to accentuate this new kitchen space. 

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Save Room for Non-Cooking Activities

When cooking is one of your favorite ways to spend your time, it can be tempting to use up as much space as possible for your new amenities-filled outdoor kitchen. Be sure to account for any other activity zones you may want to incorporate in your landscape design as well. Consider, for example, if you want to have a volleyball set-up or a place for the kids to sit and watch outdoor movies. Would you love a grassy spot for the little ones to sit and eat on a blanket while the adults dine nearby on the patio? 

Another benefit of keeping a grass space near your outdoor kitchen can be that your landscape designer can make it noteworthy by positioning it front and center and containing the grass in a defined geometric space. In this way, the grass looks neat and compact—and the sight of soft green space will contrast nicely against the view of your outdoor kitchen.

Add Privacy

You may want to add privacy to your outdoor kitchen so that you can fully enjoy outdoor cooking and dining without feeling as if the neighbors are always watching. A stone wall might be the answer, or a more subtle approach, through new plantings, could be in order. Your landscape design team, for example, can plan a gorgeous living hedge of cypress, spruce trees, or arborvitae since these are fast-growing varieties that will form a barrier quickly and keep their leaves year-round. There are other varieties such as boxwoods and privet bushes that may not grow as fast but can still make a pretty privacy hedge. 

When you want a more immediate privacy solution, your landscapers could install a trellis or slat wall where they can plant climbing roses, blooming vines, and other varieties that can fill in quickly. A landscaping team can add your choice of privacy screen to multiple sides of the outdoor kitchen so that you can dine outside whenever you wish—in peace. 

Have a Fire Nearby

Another exceptional landscape feature to draw your guests to the outdoor kitchen can be to incorporate a fire pit in an adjacent space. You may want to extend the paver flooring of your outdoor kitchen out toward a fire pit seating area, to tie in both aspects of your outdoor living space. Or the area around the fire pit can be composed of the same pavers but laid in a different design with a contrasting border to designate its distinct purpose. A fire pit can add ambient light and warmth to your outdoor space for after-dinner drinks and roasting marshmallows by the fire. 

Your landscape team can continue the aesthetic of your outdoor kitchen space or create an entirely new appearance for the fire pit. If you want to reflect the architectural details and colors of your home, they can design a fire feature to echo those elements as well.

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