Alan Smith now offers services that include retaining walls and general masonry. When you are creating your backyard living space you will want to consider the beauty and functionality that retaining walls, decorative free standing or perimeter walls, guard rails, seat walls, columns, planters, and other masonry can offer you. Typically retaining walls are structures that hold back soil or rock from a building, structure, or other area. Retaining walls prevent down-slope movement or erosion and provide support for vertical or near-vertical grade changes. When combined with the area bordering your swimming pool, these same retaining walls, seat walls, and even raised planters can provide a spectacular looks. Just add sheetflows, scuppers, or sconces with decorative lighting and stacked stone and you have created an appealing look both in the day time and after dark. There are also a variety of beautiful natural and manufactured aggregate materials that you can add to the surface of your average perimeter walls that can provide your backyard a whole new look. These are just a few of the many options available to you for creating just the right look for your backyard home resort. One of our experienced and knowledgeable sales associates at Alan Smith would be more than happy to help you with your design and planning process. Just give us a call to set up an appointment.