The Foundation of a Project

The base to any landscape makeover project requires special attention to maximizing useable space and ensuring proper drainage for longevity of the hardscaping around your home. Visionary Landscaping offers a wide variety of options for constructing walls, steps, and other paved areas, while utilizing countless options of different natural stone and engineered concrete products giving us great flexibility in design.

Diamond inlaid two-tone interlock driveway

Interlock Driveways, Patios, & Pathways

Stonework has been used for several millennia by just about every civilization around the globe as evident by many sturdy works of art that are still standing today. Offering the combination of durability and beauty, modern interlock stonework is the only form of paving which allows for flawless repairs, alterations, or expansions.

Retaining Walls & Decorative Walls

Walls are common place in many landscaping projects and can play a key role in redefining borders. Whether you are building up your yard or cutting into a slope, retaining walls are often used to create more useable space. Decorative walls can also be used to segregate different areas while providing more layers to your yards design.

Concrete Pads & Pathways

Robust and easy to maintain, concrete isn't usually our first recommendation, but in some situations there simply is no substitute. Concrete is perfectly suited for pads under sheds or hot tubs as well as walkways where the main priority is a long-lasting budget friendly option that still offers full functionality.

Brussels block interlock patio with firepit and bench

Custom Stonework Features

Steps, firepits, benches, barbecue counters, various forms of coping for pools and more, are just a few of the ways that stonework can be incorporated as a custom feature in your landscape. We are open to any custom ideas you may have and are always up for a challenge to try something new and out of the ordinary.

Natural Stone vs Engineered Concrete

Natural Stone

As the title would suggest, natural stone products are cut directly from solid rock and feature components in all sorts of various shapes and sizes. Colors and styles of these products can vary from the abundance of provincially sourced limestone and granite options, to more exotic and stylish imported options. Intermittent features utilizing these products can be incorporated into just about any landscape and often offer more of a rustic or 'back to nature' characteristic. Surely to outlast everything else around it, natural stone products offer the most bold of looks and ensure the toughest backbone available to any landscape project.

Engineered retaining wall and steps with plants and interlock driveway

Concrete Products

Offering the widest range of styles and colors to suit any landscape project, engineered products have come a long way over the past couple centuries. Visionary Landscaping works with products from Unilock, Permacon, and Techo-Bloc, ensuring high quality materials from companies that contribute to our local economy and employ hundreds of Ontarians. These products can range from more modest and budget friendly options to the prestige and high-end, which makes finding a suitable match for your home an easy task. Highly modular and absolutely beautiful, the customization options offered by engineered concrete products are unmatched.

Interlock is Our Forte

We consider the decision to have interlock stonework installed on your property to be a statement showing commitment to time tested construction methods which have been refined and perfected over the ages to be as robust as they are alluring and nostalgic. Visionary Landscaping takes pride in matching this commitment with our own dedication by providing insight on all the options available to turn your project into our work of art. Whether it's the interlock stone style or color, patterning used, bordering, inlaid designs, or other stone features, there are many combination possibilities.

Material Selection

Typically speaking, modern homes are suited by contemporary styles, century homes are better treated with rustic styles, and mid-century homes give you more flexibility in your choice. Most material options are offered in several color variants making for more intercompatibility between brands and styles. Try picking colors that suit your home but also add contrast.

Patterning

Expansive areas can sometimes look redundant no matter what material is used. Separating these areas with layered patterns, differing patterns, and in some cases, alternative materials, can often make a huge difference in the final look. Such as a herringbone driveway on a century home, or a slab walkway on a modernist home, patterning choices can vary greatly based on the property.

Bordering

Bordering doesn't have to be boring! More complex borders are the best way to add uniqueness to your project. This can be as simple as layering your border with up to two or three alternative stone options, or incorporating some sort of inlay or break-pattern to the borders design. The border material choices are absolutely as important as the main interlocking stone choice.

Personalization

Define the character of your home by having your hobbies or interests solidified as icons in your stonework. Upon request, we can offer insight on how to incorporate symbolism related to religion, ethnicity, occupation, automotive branding, or any other personal hobbies, interests, or beliefs, as well as home addresses and other more neutral abstract and decorative inlaid designs.

Solidified in Stone

There is a wide range of options for magnificent hardscape features that offer the duality of function and robustness. Visionary Landscaping can help by advising on how these features can be incorporated into your project and provide options which suit your property best. Drainage and lighting are the foremost essential features to consider when designing a landscape in addition to other features such as staircases, fountains, and gathering areas like barbecue counters, benches, firepits, and more. We recommend having these features installed directly into your hardscape to help ensure longevity and make it easier to maintain overall.

Mask the Concrete

Coping with stone products offers a beautiful and economic alternative option to resurfacing concrete, as well as various other facelift applications like step, bench, and wall top capping, pool edging, wall facades, and more. These products range from thin natural stone cuts that can be used over existing concrete surfaces offering a look similar to interlock, to various thinner veneer options that are great for wall cladding, and other higher-end stone cuts with beveled edges ideal for many different types of surface layer applications. Consult with Visionary Landscaping about stone coping and if it is the right solution to your project.

Pressure washing recently finished Beacon Hill driveway

Keep it Clean

Keep your stonework or concrete tidy and free from buildups of debris. Garbage bags, animal droppings, and piles of leaves can be especially damaging to stonework. Pressure washing a few times a year is recommended to avoid staining and long-term damage.

Sealing recently completed Beacon Hill driveway

Seal it Annually

Seal your stonework or concrete once per year to ensure maximum protection and keep it looking amazing throughout it's lifespan. Applying sealers to your stonework also produces fantastic results with making colors and patterns more vivid.