Luxury hardscape and landscape architecture project
    Gonzalez Hardscape

    Custom Outdoor Living Spaces & Backyard Environments

    Outdoor kitchens, fire features, seating walls, and covered patios that extend your home's living space into the landscape — engineered for year-round Carolina enjoyment.

    Outdoor Living Spaces

    Extending Your Home's Living Space Into the Landscape Year-Round

    An outdoor living space is the most used room you'll ever add to your home — if it's built right. We design and build outdoor kitchens with running water and gas lines, fire pits and fireplaces with proper clearances and ventilation, pergolas and covered patios with structural footings, and integrated seating walls that define the space. Every utility is run to code, every structure is engineered for wind and load, and every material is selected for outdoor durability. This isn't a patio with a grill; it's a fully functional extension of your home.

    Outdoor kitchens with plumbing, gas, and electrical integration

    Fire pits and fireplaces built to fire-code clearances

    Pergolas and shade structures on engineered footings

    Integrated lighting, seating walls, and traffic flow design

    How We Build

    Our Outdoor Living Build Process

    1

    Design & Utility Planning

    We design the space around how you'll use it — cooking, dining, lounging, entertaining — and plan all utility runs (gas, water, electric) to code.

    2

    Hardscape Foundation

    We build the structural base, patio surface, and seating walls that define the space and anchor every feature.

    3

    Feature Construction

    Kitchen counters, fire features, pergolas, and shade structures built with outdoor-rated materials and proper footings.

    4

    Finishes & Lighting

    Outdoor-rated lighting, appliances, sealers, and final detailing that make the space functional day and night, year-round.

    The Difference

    Professional Engineering vs. Standard Installation

    Feature
    Gonzalez Hardscape
    Standard Approach
    Utilities
    Plumbing, gas, and electric run to code
    Extension cords and propane tanks
    Fire Safety
    Fire features built to code clearances
    No clearance planning — fire hazard
    Structure
    Pergolas on engineered footings
    Posts in concrete buckets or surface-set
    Usability
    Year-round, all-weather functionality
    Fair-weather only, no utilities

    Client Feedback

    What Outdoor Living Spaces Clients Say

    "They built us an outdoor kitchen with a real gas line, running water, and a stone fire pit. We use it more than our indoor kitchen now. Incredible craftsmanship."

    The Patterson Family

    Ballantyne, NC

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