If you want to boost the curb appeal and value of your home on Long Island, using a Long Island Mason Contractor to add stone and brick to your landscape and yard setting in attractive ways will accomplish what you want to do. Adding brick and stone patios, brick walkways, or a brick and stone deck to your home will add natural interest, as well as extending your living space out into your outdoor space, and making your home appear more spacious and gracious. Some stone or brick walls or edging for your landscaping will enhance their appearance and carry the stone and brick theme throughout your landscape.

There are further benefits to enhancing your home in this very natural manner. Though the initial cost might be slightly more, depending on the stone you choose, stone and brick patios and decks require little in the way of maintenance once they've been properly installed, will give you many more years of enjoyment than a wood or concrete deck or patio, and are much more attractive and natural looking. By including step slabs, random slabs and boulders you can achieve a dramatic landscape appearance. You can even incorporate a terraced waterscape into your brick & stone patio, creating a cool oasis for hot summer days.

It is much easier creating brick and stone patios to follow the natural contour of the setting, which gives the overall design a more organic appearance, and allows you to incorporate your plantings in a more integrated way. Your mason contractor can even create a stone and brick patio around an existing tree! If the natural contour of your land's slope is a curve, your contractor can create a graded and terraced stone and brick patio to fit into the curved space, or use the brick walkway to define the curve.

Adding stone & brick walls which incorporate planting boxes will add levels to your landscape and allow you more creativity in your plantings without complicating lawn maintenance, and can incorporate plantings that allow for more privacy when you're enjoying the use of your new patio. These walls can define the border of your brick & stone deck, or follow along a brick walkway. Terracing your landscape and adding multiple levels of brick and stone patios that follow the contour of your sloping property will enhance your natural setting, giving it visual interest in a way that uses what's there in an organic way, rather than trying to impose order on nature.

If erosion is a problem on your lot, terracing using brick and stone decks and utilizing stone and brick retaining walls can solve your erosion problems and stabilize your landscape.

Choosing the right stone and brick is key to making your new brick and stone deck work within its setting. Picking stone that is native to the setting, and that accents colors you use in your home's paint scheme or natural landscape is key to making the stone and brick work well within its setting. Stone varies greatly in color and texture and thickness. Some is smoothly cut, and some is very rough cut and somewhat irregular in shape. There are no two stones that are exactly alike, which is a great part of stone's appeal. Natural stone variegates in color, with veining, flecks, striations and other irregularities, creating a richness and depth not possible with other materials. Brick also comes in many colors, textures, and glazes.

Incorporating drainage, and properly grading the brick and stone deck's site will ensure that wet weather won't create a quagmire in your garden. Getting the base right is the key to making sure your stone and brick deck will stay graded properly and not sink in spots. Using a professional Long Island Mason Contractor will ensure that your hardscaping job is done right the first time.

Hiring your Long Island Mason Contractor and consulting with him to choose the right stone and brick for its purpose, to discuss your grading and drainage needs, and to match the materials to the expected traffic use will ensure you a brick and stone patio that will give you many years of enjoyment, and enhance the value of your home.