If you own a commercial business, you want your exterior paving to look as nice as possible. Having a beautiful exterior hardscape design for your business sends a message to everyone who visits.
It leaves an impression and helps to better represent your company. Plain concrete walkways are boring. If you really want to make an impact with your hardscape, you need to get creative and experiment with new commercial hardscape ideas.
Hardscape Design Ideas
There are plenty of ways to do so nowadays, so let’s take a look at 7 commercial hardscape design ideas you can use to make your place of business stand out from the rest.
1. Terraced Slope with Water Features
If you’ve got a sloping hill to work with, having it terraced is the perfect way to make the most of it. By cutting terraces into your sloping land, you can use them to install greenery, flowers, shrubs, or any other feature you’d like. You can also have steps built into it, and even place a water feature like a fountain or lazy river at the bottom.
2. Natural Wood
Natural wood is incredibly versatile and looks good anywhere. If there’s a man-made creek or flowing water of any kind near your business, you can use natural wood to build a beautiful bridge over it.
You can also construct walkways, cable railings, and other features that work well to compliment the nature around them, as opposed to concrete or asphalt which gives off an industrial vibe.
3. Pergolas
Pergolas are perfect as landscaping for commercial businesses because they mostly serve as style pieces. They can provide a bit of shade or an area to sit down under but there is so much stylistic diversity with pergolas that they work best as an aesthetic addition to a hardscaping project.
You can choose from plain white stone pergolas, wooden pergolas, Roman-style pergolas with drapes, vines, and lattices, or any other design you can think up. Pergolas are some of the most versatile hardscaping accessories available.
4. TRUEGRID Permeable Pavers
Plastic permeable pavers from TRUEGRID can be filled with any type of aggregate you choose, and they are the perfect way to implement an eco-friendly design into your hardscaping. They look clean-cut and sleek, and are perfect for building parking lots, walkways, outdoor lounge areas, and more. They can be filled with any color aggregate to compliment your business aesthetic.
TRUEGRID PRO PLUS pavers are durable, low-maintenance, and provide the perfect foundation for adding more features like landscaping, benches, statues, sculptures, and much more.
5. Paver Art
If you’ve got a company brand or logo you want front and center, there’s no better way to display it than by having it implemented in your commercial hardscape design. Permeable stone pavers tend to work well for this type of design because they prevent water from running over the design and help keep it looking fresh.
6. Shade
If you expect plenty of sun as many businesses do, it’s never a bad idea to incorporate some shade into your commercial hardscape design. You can mix and match some of the aforementioned elements such as natural wood and TRUEGRID pavers as pavement.
For the actual shade, you could opt for patio-like structures, basic canvas shading, a pavilion, or anything that’s going to provide enough shade to get comfortable under. It doesn’t hurt to mix in a water feature and center all your seating and shading around that, either.
7. TRUEGRID ROOT Pavers
If you want to transform your grass into hardscaping without actually turning it into hard pavement, you’re in luck. TRUEGRID ROOT pavers are made from 100% recycled plastic and can be installed right over the top of your grass. The grass will grow up through them and can be kept at your desired height.
You could keep it somewhat short to show the pavers beneath or let it grow high enough that it hides the hardscaping. These pavers are durable enough to park and drive on and will prevent your grass from being rutted, torn up, or matted down.
You don’t even need a permit to install these, and much like TRUEGRID PRO PLUS pavers, the installation can be completed in under a day.
Let Your Hardscaping Speak for Itself with TRUEGRID
If you want to make a great first impression, optimizing your commercial hardscape design is crucial. There’s no excuse to have boring concrete walkways and monotone color schemes all around your building when there are so many creative hardscaping designs to choose from.
You don’t have to pick just one, either. Many of the commercial hardscape ideas listed here complement each other nicely, and can work together to create an overall theme or aesthetic that impresses everyone who sees it. TRUEGRID pavers, especially, go well with almost anything.
Whether you want to display your company logo, offer some shading, make use of a slope, incorporate natural wood, or achieve some other effect, any of the ideas listed here would be a great place to start.
If you’re interested in incorporating TRUEGRID pavers in the mix, be sure to contact one of our pavement professionals today for an estimate.
