Add a Seating Wall to Your Worthington and Lewis Center, OH Landscaping for a Natural Viewing Spot

To keep your friends and family comfortable in your outdoor living space, they’re going to need a good place to sit down and relax. For a small group, you can accomplish this with a few plushy chairs in a lounge, but for larger gatherings, the best seating option is with a seating wall. With such a beautiful masonry structure, your friends and family will feel welcome and relaxed in your backyard. Here’s why you should add a seating wall to your Worthington and Lewis Center, OH landscaping for a natural viewing spot.

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What Is A Seating Wall?

A seating wall is a mortared masonry structure and designed to provide seating for people (dry-stack walls are not sturdy enough to support the weight of people).

Most commonly, a seating wall is a stand-alone structure that is placed around the patio or along a walkway. This wall can define a corner, or surround nearly the entire patio for a cozy feeling.

Masonry seating can also be accomplished using a retaining wall set against a garden with a generous cap stone for casual seating. Seating could also be integrated into the length of a higher retaining wall or even a nook that’s built into a retaining wall.

What Are The Benefits Of A Seating Wall?

If you’ve ever hosted a large party and found it challenging to offer seating for everyone, a seating wall is the perfect answer. If you enjoy entertaining large groups of people, you definitely don’t want to have to deal with a few dozen extra chairs that clutter the space, or leave your guests playing musical chairs or having to stand.

A masonry seating wall won’t blow away in the wind or deteriorate and become brittle over the years from UV exposure. And, a seating wall rarely needs any maintenance other than occasional cleaning and periodic sealing.

A seating wall will create a clearly defined boundary between various spaces of use on your patio. When it’s not being used for seating, it can house colorful pots with annual flowers or ornamental grasses.

Surrounding a fire pit with a seating wall will allow more people to gather around the warmth.

Any seating wall will create sight lines that draw the eye across the space: which can make seating walls exceptionally useful as a design statement along the journey to a focal point destination such as a fountain.

Enjoying the Views

There’s a reason many viewpoints include benches. You can achieve the same with a seating wall which will also allow for a better definition of space (such as between a paver patio and a landscaped area).

When you build a seating wall that faces a view, you’re setting up a fantastic place for anyone to take in the beauty of the scene. The view doesn’t have to be majestic, either. Sometimes, the best views are small and subtle such as a quiet forested nook filled with shade-loving plants, where one can retreat to read a book in the silence of the trees. Or, it could be beside a serene backyard pond or creek, where one can enjoy the water.

When you place your seating wall in front of a view, it can quickly become your favorite place in the whole backyard. To make the scene even more appealing, add a fire pit for warmth and a small water feature for added serenity.

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