Outdoor Living in Lakewood, CO

Backyard Paradiso designs and builds complete outdoor living environments in Lakewood, Colorado – engineered for the city’s 36-inch frost depth, its 166 mph design wind speed at the foothill edge, and a housing stock that largely predates the city itself.

Lakewood is the western anchor of the Denver & Front Range market on the Markets We Serve roster. Suburban development began in 1889 along Colfax Avenue, and the city incorporated on June 24, 1969 with more than 90,000 residents already in place – which means the great majority of its housing stock predates incorporation. The outdoor living work follows that profile: renovation and integration on established lots, from Applewood’s brick ranches to the slopes below Green Mountain, with fewer master-planned covenant regimes than the Douglas County suburbs.

This is the Complete Outdoor Living Systems approach applied to Lakewood conditions: motorized louvered aluminum pergolas engineered for the corridor’s highest design wind, composite decks on 36-inch frost footings, paver patios with bases engineered for expansive Front Range soil, and lighting designed around the foothill sight lines.

Lakewood’s residential map is older and less uniformly covenanted than the southern suburbs. Applewood, shared with Wheat Ridge, Golden, and unincorporated Jefferson County, is known for 1960s and 1970s brick ranch houses on larger lots with few or no covenants – projects there route through the city permit alone. Belmar, built on the site of the former 700-acre Bonfils estate and the Villa Italia Mall, anchors the mixed-use core. The neighborhoods below Green Mountain, where William F. Hayden Park exceeds 2,400 acres with a 6,800-foot summit, and around Bear Creek Lake Park’s 2,624 acres carry the foothill sight lines that shape pergola orientation, railing selection, and lighting design. Where a community does operate an architectural review committee under the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act, Backyard Paradiso prepares the ARC submission alongside the permit package.

Because most Lakewood homes were built before 1969, the typical project is integration rather than new-build specification: a pergola added to an existing patio, a composite deck with glass railing replacing a deteriorating wood structure, a paver extension where the original lot never planned for outdoor living – each engineered to the city’s current loads regardless of the era of the house.

The projects Backyard Paradiso installs in Lakewood cover the full service range: motorized louvered pergolas, composite decks, paver patios, outdoor kitchens, glass railings, landscape lighting, permanent lighting, fencing, motorized zip screens, retractable awnings, and artificial turf. Water providers serving Lakewood operate their own conservation rules and rebate programs with terms that change year to year – verifying current-year eligibility with the specific provider is a standard early step when a project pairs hardscape expansion with landscape conversion.