Hardscape Design
Design-and-build for whole outdoor living spaces: patios, fire features, kitchens and the walls that hold them all level.
COVIS is a Raleigh hardscape contractor, licensed for hardscaping and as a general contractor. Most projects pull in three or four of the services below at once, because a patio usually arrives with a wall holding it level and a fire feature at one end of it. We measure first, sketch second, and build once you have signed off the materials.
Services
Everything we build
Outdoor Living Spaces
Rooms without walls. We build the space you actually described, then get out of the way so you can use it.
Custom Paver Patios
Patios cut to the shape of your yard, in pavers, flagstone, travertine or porcelain, built to sit dead level under furniture.
Outdoor Fireplaces
A full stone chimney with a hearth, wood storage and somewhere to sit, so the patio keeps working through autumn.
Custom Fire Pits
Wood-burning or gas, sunk into the patio or raised, with a seating wall around it so everyone is in the same conversation.
Outdoor Kitchens
Built-in grills, counters, storage and bar seating in stone that stands up to a North Carolina summer.
Outdoor Grill Islands
A built-in island wrapped in stone, sized around your grill and the counter space you need either side of it.
Retaining Walls & Gardens
Walls that turn a slope into somewhere you can put a table, and hold the grade and the drainage while they do it.
Pathways & Walkways
The route from the driveway to the back door, made deliberate rather than accidental.
Driveways & Entrances
Paver driveways and entrances that lift the whole front of the house and need very little looking after.
Pool Decks
Surrounds for in-ground pools in paver or natural stone, cool underfoot and level where it needs to be.
Custom Stone Veneers
Natural and manufactured veneer on house fronts, columns, chimneys and walls, inside as well as out.
Wood Decks
Where a deck is the right answer instead of a patio, we build that too, plain or with built-in features.
Sunrooms & Screened Porches
Three-season rooms for the stretch of the year when you want to be outside but not in the weather.
Residential Hardscapes
Smaller pieces of stonework, repairs, extensions and updates to hardscape that is already there.
Case studies
Recently finished
Let’s talk
Request your free consultation
Tell us where you are and what you are picturing. We come out, measure the space, and talk through layout, materials and schedule. The visit and the 2-D sketch cost nothing.
“They just finished our brick patio and fire pit and it surpassed any vision we had. The crew was so meticulous and made sure we were happy with the progress every day they were here.”
— Caroline MarlowHomeowner
