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Outdoor Living
Rooms without walls,
composed for the way you entertain.
Kitchens, fireplaces, and shaded pavilions designed as
architectural extensions of the home โ not afterthoughts on the patio.
For over 35 years, Lavish Gardens Landscape has transformed outdoor spaces across Northern California โ one masterpiece at a time.
From Rocklin to El Dorado Hills, our licensed and insured team brings meticulous craftsmanship to every property. We understand the local climate, soil, and lifestyle โ so every garden thrives where you live.
Pillar ยท Outdoor Living
Designed for
cocktail hour, built
for January wind.
An outdoor living environment is not a barbecue island parked on a slab โ it is a sequence of rooms with sight-lines, shade structures, and seasonal flow planned alongside the house itself.
Our practice treats the outdoor program as architecture: kitchens for the cook in the family, fireplaces sized to the conversation, covered patios that work in July and February alike.
We engineer for the realities of Sacramento Valley living: 105ยฐ summers, smoke season, surprise frosts. Materials are chosen for performance first; the beauty is non-negotiable but it follows.
The Craft
Architect-grade structures
Patio covers permitted, engineered, and detailed to match the home's roofline.
Commercial appliance specs
Built-in grills, side burners, ventilation hoods rated for outdoor cooking volume.
All-season comfort
Radiant heaters, fans, fire features, and lighting layered for year-round use.
Specializations
The disciplines inside the discipline.
Kitchens
โOutdoor Kitchens & BBQs
Built-in grills, side burners, prep surfaces, and refrigeration laid out the way a chef would draw them.
Fire
โFireplaces & Fire Pits
Masonry fireplaces, gas fire features, and gathering pits sized to the conversation, not the catalog.
Shelter
โPatio Covers & Sunrooms
Cedar pavilions, retractable louvered roofs, and integrated sunrooms designed by an architect, not bolted on by a vendor.
Materials & Spec
The short list we trust.
The Process
Four steps. One studio.
Lifestyle interview
How you cook, how many you host, what time of year.
Spatial design
Sight-lines from kitchen, traffic flow, sun and shade study.
Permit & build
Engineered drawings, permits pulled, single crew through completion.
Walkthrough & care
Appliance training, seasonal care plan handed off.
Considerations
Questions worth asking.
Most do. We coordinate the gas, electrical, and water rough-ins as part of a single permit set.
Yes โ we routinely tie new outdoor kitchens and fireplaces into existing hardscape with seamless material matching.
Pair It With
The integrations that make a
project sing.
Design-build means every discipline is drawn at the same table. These are the natural pairings clients ask for next.
Landscape Lighting
Layered low-voltage and architectural LED systems that turn dusk into the property's most cinematic hour.
Explore โ PillarHardscape Design & Construction
Terraces, walls, and pavements engineered to a 50-year standard โ drawn, specified, and built by a single studio.
Explore โ PillarWater Features & Ponds
Cascading waterfalls, koi ponds, and architectural basins designed as the garden's gravitational center.
Explore โService Area
Providing outdoor living environments from our Rocklin studio across Placer, Sacramento, and El Dorado Counties.
Begin
Discuss your outdoor living environments project
with Michael & Susan Cole.
Michael & Susan Cole
Founders
Rocklin, CA ยท 35+ years
Premier landscape design-build studio. Owned & led by Michael & Susan Cole. Rocklin, CA ยท 35+ years.
Michael & Susan Cole
founders
Rocklin, CA ยท 35+ years
Hardscape
Outdoor & Sustain
Water & Light
Landscape Design ยท Service Area
ยฉ 2026 Lavish Gardens Landscape ยท Michael & Susan Cole
Rocklin, CA ยท CA Lic. #1110575 C-27 Landscape Contractor