Retaining Walls, Seatwalls & Pillars

Retaining Walls

Retaining walls serve functional and decorative roles in your outdoor living area. For yards with a steep slope, a retaining wall helps to stop yard flooding and erosion. Moreover, your retaining wall adds visual interest as well. It defines a backyard room and creates curves and lines into your overall design.

Retaining wall materials

• Brick
• Dry-stack stone
• Interlocking concrete blocks
• Pavers
• Poured concrete that is stamped and stained to look like real stone
• Mortared rock or stone
• Timbers or other types of wood

Pillars

Pillars add a touch of class as well as serve a functional purpose just like retaining walls. For example, you can add a pillar to the retaining wall gracing your driveway entrance. Add a plaque with your house number and last name complete with a lantern-style light fixture to welcome your guests to your home. 

Pillars added to your retaining wall:

• Create a definitive doorway of sorts into your outdoor living rooms
• Greet guests
• Separate landscape areas from other outdoor features, such as the horse barn, a formal garden or the pool area
• Provide storage space
• Provide a space for your mailbox
• Create built-in planters