Patios
Where most of the living actually happens. We design the patio around how you use the yard, then set the stone or pavers ourselves.
NRD is a design-build landscape firm in Minnetonka, working across the Twin Cities metro. We handle patios and outdoor rooms, fire features and outdoor kitchens, retaining walls, walkways and front entries, decks and pergolas, planting, water features and pool surrounds. Most projects pull in several of them, and the same team draws and builds all of it.
Where most of the living actually happens. We design the patio around how you use the yard, then set the stone or pavers ourselves.
A defined place to sit, eat and gather, built as a proper room with a floor, edges and a roofline rather than furniture on a slab.
Fireplaces, fire pits and custom features that give the yard a reason to stay open well past the end of a Minnesota summer.
Walls that hold a grade and look like they were always meant to be there, blended into the driveway, planting and paving already on site.
Trees, shrubs, perennials and gardens chosen for the site and placed for how they will look in ten years, not just on installation day.
The route from the street to the front door, and every path after it. Surfaces that make the whole property easier to move through.
The first thing anyone sees. Steps, landing, lighting and planting worked together so the entry reads as one deliberate composition.
Grills, counters, storage and seating laid out so whoever is cooking stays part of the party instead of stranded at the far end of the deck.
Built where the grade calls for a deck rather than a patio, and detailed to sit comfortably against the house instead of bolted onto it.
Overhead structure that turns an open patio into a room, and gives shade, climbing plants and lighting something to hang from.
Ponds, streams and basins. Moving water changes how a yard sounds as much as how it looks, and it carries further than you expect.
Pool and spa surrounds designed alongside the rest of the landscape, so the water belongs to the property rather than being dropped into it.
Tell us where the property is and what you would like to do with it. The first consultation is free, it happens at your home, and there is no obligation at the end of it.
“Eric and the NRD team were wonderful to work with. In an industry with many questionable companies, NRD really stands out. They are honest, fair, timely, and professional. The quality of his work is very high. Highly recommended!”