Nothing can shape your lawn quite like a gorgeous retaining wall. Retaining walls sculpt and define your garden’s space, creating layers and giving dimension to your property. A retaining wall can both enhance the focal point of your home or build a garden space. After seeing these beautiful retaining wall ideas, you might consider both.
All summer, the master landscapers at DRC Landscaping have been installing retaining walls and other large landscaping projects throughout Northern Nevada. The following retaining walls are our favorites to design and build!
Retaining Walls for Your Northern Nevada Home
1. Alternating Brick Walls
Brick walls come in many shapes and colors. Why not combine them? If you want to use brick for your retaining wall, consider using bricks of alternating shapes and colors, this helps draw the eye to your retaining wall, highlighting how it textures your garden.
2. Planter Walls
A retaining wall can do more than just organize your garden; it can also provide a gardening space. Planter walls are sustainable, eco-friendly, and offer a creative space for colors and unique designs. Play around with both the materials you use and the plants that fill them!
3. Overlapping Stone Walls
A typical stone wall will undoubtedly get the job done, but it won’t do much else. Overlapping your stones will add shadow and dimension to your retaining wall, while still offering the benefits of a stone structure. With some light installations or iron-cast fencing on top of the overlapped stone, your retaining wall can be both sophisticated and stylish.
4. Stacked Retaining Wall
Don’t let the term “wall” confuse you, because it doesn’t have to be a single, vertical mass. Stacked retaining walls create tiers or levels, pushing the soil up incrementally rather than all at once. A stacked retaining wall will accompany a stairway beautifully, and it also helps you tier and organize your garden.
5. Timber Wall
Most of the materials we’ve mentioned have involved brick, stone, or concrete, but don’t discredit a natural timber wall’s elegance. Wood paneling provides an earthy and sophisticated option for layering your garden, and it’s perfectly suited for a retaining wall lush with greenery.
6. Panel Wall
A panel wall is a larger version of the timber, as mentioned earlier, wall. If you want a retaining wall that’s tall, wide, and spacious, a massive wall of wood panels makes an elegant backdrop for an outdoor seating area. Bonus points if lush trees and shrubs surround the wall!
7. Natural Stone Wall
Sometimes, the answer to your landscaping problem is right around you. Specific properties in Northern Nevada sit near natural stone like slate and granite; when used to build a retaining wall, your house will situate itself wonderfully in Northern Nevada’s landscape.
8. Stone Carousel
Retaining walls don’t need to be straight, and a stone carousel certainly isn’t. Curve your retaining wall using natural stone, and your retaining wall will feel like one large planter – perfect for larger gardening projects or uneven landscapes.
9. Stone Stairway
What if your retaining wall also held up a stairway? Stone stairs add an elegant touch to your retaining wall, especially if you’re using natural stone found throughout Northern Nevada. Use both the wall and the stairs to draw the eye someplace else in your lawn!
10. Stacked Planter
Retaining walls provide gorgeous spaces for you to stack and tier your planters. For some retaining walls, the intent can be to add an extra dimension to your gardening space, so consider stacking brick planters on top of each other in a tiered and layered design.
11. Forest Stream
Many homeowners in Northern Nevada use their retaining walls to sculpt the landscape, but that’s not your only option. One idea for a retaining wall is to build it around a stream or body of water. By letting the water guide the wall, you give nature control over the shape of your garden.
12. Wall of Ivy
Finally, who doesn’t love some ivy growing against red brick? An ivy wall adds a level of sophistication that will make any homeowner spend all day reading outdoors. If you add an iron grate, some lamp posts, or dense growth of shrubs, your retaining wall will harness wizened, intelligent energy.
Let DRC Landscaping Build Your Northern Nevada Retaining Wall
Do you have an idea for your retaining wall, but need assistance getting it built? The landscape designers at DRC Landscaping want to help! Reach out today, and let’s re-terraform your Northern Nevada lawn with a stunning retaining wall.
