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A good patio becomes part of everyday life almost without you noticing: the grill going on a weeknight, a card game that runs past dark, the first cool evening of fall spent around the fire. Getting there starts with fitting the patio to your lot, because in Bloomington, every square foot of hard surface counts toward a city limit. Minnehaha Falls Landscaping approaches patio installation across Bloomington by starting with that number, then designing the patio, the route from the house, and the beds and lawn beside it to work together as a single outdoor landscape design. As patio installers with one local team, from design to final walkthrough, we build every patio on a compacted base pitched to carry water away from your home.
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Bloomington limits how much of a home’s lot can be covered by hard surfaces, and a new patio counts toward that total. These are the rules that shape the design.
Here’s how the math plays out. On a 12,000-square-foot lot, 35 percent allows 4,200 square feet of hard surface in total. If the house, garage, driveway, and walks already take up 3,700, about 500 square feet remain for a patio, roughly 20 by 25 feet. We measure what’s on your lot before we draw anything, so the design you fall for is one the city will accept.
On a coverage budget, good patio design and installation start with the right surface. These three are a strong place to begin.
No two lots are priced the same, even when the patios are the same size. These are the line items that make the biggest difference.
Your itemized estimate lists each of these separately, and you can explore every patio material and style we offer before deciding where to spend and where to save.
A Bloomington patio moves through three clear stages. The coverage math comes first, so every decision after it rests on solid numbers.
We visit, measure your existing hard surfaces, and learn how you hope to use the patio.
You’ll review a detailed design and a line-by-line estimate, sized to the coverage your lot has left.
Our crew builds the base, sets the surface with a slope away from the house, and repairs the lawn around it.
With a 35 percent cap on hard surfaces, a Bloomington patio has to make the most of limited space. These are the facts behind the patios we size and build here.
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When hard surface is limited, the green space around a patio matters even more, which is where our design, garden, and lawn services come in.
There’s a stretch of every Minnesota summer when the evenings seem to last forever, and nobody wants to go inside. A patio built for your yard makes room for more of those nights, and for the quiet ones, too. Share how you hope to use the space, and we’ll walk the lot with you and design something that feels made for your home. If you live just outside Bloomington, check the nearby communities we also serve.
It depends on what's already there. Bloomington caps hard surfaces at 35 percent of a single-family lot, so we total your house, driveway, and walks first, and the remainder sets the patio's upper limit. If you're considering permeable pavers, we confirm with the city how they'll be counted, since its published guidance doesn't address them directly.
It depends on your watershed. The Lower Minnesota River Watershed District reimburses up to 50 percent, up to $2,500 for homes, and lists permeable pavers and rain gardens as eligible; Nine Mile Creek covers up to 75 percent, up to $5,000, for projects that improve water quality; Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek offers stewardship grants; and the Richfield-Bloomington Watershed Management Organization has no cost-share program. The city's website has a lookup to find your district, and our rain garden installation can be paired with a patio to manage runoff.
In most cases, yes. Our Bloomington pergola team can build one over a new or existing patio, setting the footings around the surface so the paving stays intact.
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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