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Stone Masonry
Artistic Landscapes can design and build benches, patios, walkways or retaining walls with your choice of stone material. Our experience includes constructing these features with bluestone, bricks, concrete pavers, fieldstone, flagstone, natural stone and segmental wall blocks. Based upon your home and your goals, we will recommend the stone material which will best meet your goals. For instance, we constructed a walkway for an Andover family using old clay bricks so that the new walkway blended right in with the 200+ year old home and a brick walkway outlined in cobblestones for a Newburyport family.
Please call us at 978.317.9875 to see pictures of natural fieldstone walls which we built for a North Andover family in December 2011. This 47" tall wall includes a section for granite steps that lead to a new paver walkway.
Tony is a certified installer of segmental pavers by the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute ("ICPI"), a standards-setting organization in the industry. The ICPI certification provides you, the client, with more value as you know your walkway or patio is being constructed by a certified professional installer. Walkways/patios built by us will always be graded appropriately and will have strong edge restraints.
Tony is a certified installer of segmental retaining walls by the National Concrete Masonry Association ("NCMA"), a standards-setting organization in the industry. This NCMA certification ensures that your retaining wall, steps or planter is being designed and built by someone who has proven knowledge of the fundamental principles and recommended installation guidelines of segmental retaining walls.
Techo-Bloc, a leading manufacturer of concrete pavers and wall blocks, qualified Tony as a Techo-Pro. Tony earned the Techo-Pro designation, because he is both ICPI and NCMA certified and Techo-Bloc reviewed some of the walkways/patios/retaining walls that Tony built. In addition to reviewing his certifications and completed projects, Techo-Bloc also reviewed Artistic Landscapes' insurance policies.
During 2010, we participated in a dry stonewall workshop led by 1 of the 7 master craftsman, as certified by the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, in the entire United States. Based on our knowledge of best practices and how to build a quality project, we guarantee that the materials we install will not settle excessively and will not crack or loosen for a minimum of five (5) years after installation. We will add joint sand, if needed, free of charge during these years as well.
In February 2011, we started our own blog at www.Artistic-Landscapes.com/blog in our effort to keep you abreast of what we are doing and current landscape items.
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Examples of Our Masonry Work
This Georgetown family has changed the entire front of their house, during 2011, with new natural stone retaining walls, steps built with reclaimed granite, walkway with reclaimed bricks accented with new plants and a low voltage landscape lighting system. These walls allowed this family to finally have a tiered front yard like they wanted.
We built natural fieldstone walls from thin flat stones for this Boxford family, during 2011. These walls and set of reclaimed granite steps allows this family access to their lawn and kids playground areas.
This Lynnfield family has dramatically expanded their outdoor living space. With the addition of two patios connected by stepping stones and a new hot tub, this family will be spending much more of their relaxing time outdoors in their new living space. A natural stone firepit was built in a location where it can be seen from both the hot tub and from the deck. The serpentine layout and oversized stepping stones provide the aesthetic appeal which they hoped.
This North Andover family has more than doubled their outdoor living space with this new private brick patio. By building stone retaining walls that compliment the walls which were built many years ago and installing a flight of reclaimed granite steps, this new patio looks like it was part of the original design and layout of the property.
The entrance to this Salisbury family's home is now fully accessible from the driveway with pavers. Complimenting the walkway is a retaining wall that aligns with the height of the bottom step and between the wall and the porch will be plants.
This historic looking walkway fits right in with many of the other brick walkways in Newburyport. We accented the bricks with a cobbletsone edge.
This Georgetown family's driveway is anchored with these natural stone retaining walls. The pillars lead a guest to the front walkway while the rod iron gate leads guests to the backyard and deck.
This Salisbury family added on to their garage and needed a new walkway to get from the front of their home to the back deck and hot tub. As a complement to their plantings, we built two new raised stone planters.
This Arlington family added a new walkway, a retaining wall and increased the width of their driveway with the use of pavers and segmental retaining wall block. Now they have sufficient off-street parking and a paver walkway to get to the main door.
This Georgetown family added a new walkway to their porch as they had been traversing on stepping stones.
This Hamilton family added a new brick walkway to their front door as guests used to have to walk over the cobblestones and onto lawn on their way to the front door.
This North Andover family added these steps with a large platform landing so that they were no longer forced to step back down the steps when they opened the door to their home.
This North Andover family added a flagstone walkway with granite steps to their front door as people were having difficulties walking up the hill between their driveway and their front door.
This Freedom, NH family added this paver walkway to connect their driveway to their oversized front steps.
