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City backyards tend to do several jobs at once. The same space might hold the garage apron, the garden, a spot for the kids, and the table where you eat on summer nights, so a patio has to fit in without crowding everything else out. We take on patio installation across Minneapolis with that balance in mind, fitting the patio, the walkways, and the plantings into one outdoor landscape design that works for the whole yard. As patio installers based in south Minneapolis, Minnehaha Falls Landscaping keeps each project with the same local crew, from the first sketch through the last check-in.
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We are long time customers of Minnehaha Falls Landscaping. As I sit on my porch watching the monarch butterflies enjoying my pollinator garden I appreciate the service we’ve had over the years. It started with their snow removal service as we decided doing it ourselves was too much. Next up were the pollinator gardens and replacing our lawn with no mow bee gardens. This year we added garden maintenance to the mix so gardening is not a chore but is enjoyable. We recommend them very highly.
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Minnehaha Falls landscaping did an amazing job transforming our yard. They added beautiful plantings that made the yard feel fresh and new. The lighting they installed really makes everything shine at night. They were professional, creative and very easy to work with. We have had so many compliments from our neighbors! I highly recommend to anyone!
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Every Minneapolis property sits in a built form district, and that district sets how much of the lot can be covered with hard surfaces. A few other city rules affect where a patio can go and what it costs to own.
Your district appears on the city’s zoning map. We check it, along with the hard surfaces already on the lot, before we size the patio, so the design fits the rules from the very first drawing.
Good patio design and installation on a city lot balances the look you want with how much hard surface you can add. These three options cover a lot of ground.
Patios of the same size don’t always cost the same. Here’s what drives the difference on a city property.
Your itemized estimate shows each of these line by line, and you can browse the patio styles and stones we install to see where your preferences land.
Three stages take a Minneapolis patio from sketch to stone. Each one is handled by the same team, so details carry through from plan to build.
We walk the lot with you, confirm the built form district, and talk through how the space will be used.
Your design and itemized estimate are shaped around how much hard surface your lot can hold.
Our crew prepares the base, sets the surface, cleans up the site, and checks in once the work is done.
We’re based in south Minneapolis, so we know city lots firsthand, from narrow side yards to hard surface limits. These are the facts behind every patio we build for our neighbors.
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On a city lot, the patio is usually one piece of a bigger puzzle that includes the garage apron, the garden, and the boulevard, and our landscape design and garden services help every piece fit.
City life moves quickly, and a good patio is one of the few places that invites you to slow down. Coffee before work, a late dinner with friends, an hour with a book while the light fades: it makes room for all of it, right outside your back door. Tell us what you picture, and we’ll come walk the yard together and design a patio that feels at home on your lot. Outside the city limits? We also serve the communities around Minneapolis.
It depends on your built form district and what's already on the lot. In the Interior 1 and 2 districts, hard surfaces can cover up to 60 percent of a residential lot, so we total the house, garage, driveway, and walks first and size the patio to the remainder.
It can, if it includes the right features. Minneapolis offers a flat 35 percent stormwater fee credit, or 45 percent in Green Zones, for pervious pavement or a rain garden built to the city's best management practices, and our rain garden design and installation can be built beside the patio for that purpose. The feature must be on your property and treat runoff from your own hard surfaces, and you apply for the credit through the city.
Often, within limits. City code allows a ground-level patio of up to 100 square feet in decorative concrete, pavers, or stone to extend into the required front yard, as long as it's at least 10 feet from the public sidewalk and designed so it can't be used for parking.
As the education and advocacy branch, we work with community partners to create safe places for our pollinators, one garden, yard, business, school, church, conversation at a time. We know that together, we can build the buzz!
As the construction branch of Minnehaha Falls Landscaping, we build outdoor decks, steps, railings, pergolas, fences, and planters. When it gets colder, we step inside to remodel living spaces with creativity and craftsmanship, including cabinetry.
As the gardening branch, we work within your landscape to grow plants, flowers, shrubs and woodland gardens that are beautiful, restorative, and safe for birds, people, pets, and pollinators. We also install bee-friendly lawns and do spring and fall clean-up.
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