Design type — patios

Patio and terrace concepts, in the exact spot they will be poured.

Shape, size, level and paving pattern are the four decisions a patio lives or dies on, and none of them read properly from a plan view. PlotVisionAI™ puts the terrace into a photograph of your house so the proportions can be judged against the door, the step and the lawn.

AI concept visualization of a curved paver terrace behind a brick home, with a seat wall of tumbled block, a fire feature, cushioned lounge seating and a mown lawn edge sweeping away from the paving.
AI concept visualization A curved paver terrace with a seat wall and fire feature, generated onto a residential rear elevation. AI concept visualization — not a photograph of a completed patio.

What a patio concept settles

Size is the decision people get wrong.

Patios are almost always drawn too small on paper and then built too small in the yard. Seeing furniture, circulation and a real door threshold in one frame is what fixes that. PlotVisionAI is used by homeowners and landscape professionals worldwide, and it works on any property you can photograph — anywhere in the world.

Footprint and shape

Rectangular, curved, or broken into two levels: the shape decides how furniture lands and whether people can walk behind a pulled-out chair. A concept lets you test a shape against the actual back wall of the house rather than an idealised one.

Level, step and threshold

Where the paving meets the door, and how many steps come down to grade, changes the feel of the whole terrace. It is also the detail most likely to be discovered late, when the layout is already priced.

Paving, pattern and colour

Unit size, laying pattern, banding and border colour all read differently at full size beside your brick or siding than they do on a 4-inch sample. A rendered concept is a cheap way to reject three options before ordering one.

What it connects to

A patio is rarely alone. It has to meet a wall or grade change, a planting edge and, if it is going to be used at night, a lighting layer.

What a patio concept does not decide

The picture does not specify base depth, compaction, bedding, jointing, edge restraint, drainage falls or frost detail, and it is not a quote. Those belong to whoever builds it. The concept exists so the shape, size and material are already agreed when the builder arrives, which is the part that normally takes three site visits and two arguments.

If the patio is one phase of something larger, start with the full backyard page instead, and see the matched before-and-after pairs for how the frames are held still.

Design types

The other things PlotVisionAI can draw on your property

Each design type has its own page, with the questions that type of project actually has to answer before anyone builds it.

iPhone & Android app — coming soon

Design anywhere. PlotVisionAI™ for iPhone and Android.

The same workflow as the web tool, in your pocket on site: photograph the yard where you are standing, direct the concept, and spend credits from the same account. Built for homeowners and landscape professionals worldwide.

Get the app Join mobile early access

The apps are in development. There is no store listing yet, nothing to download today, and no release date is being promised — joining early access simply means you hear first.

Three phones showing the PlotVisionAI mobile app: the welcome screen, a project list with saved backyard concepts, and the credits screen.
Screens from the current PlotVisionAI™ mobile build. Project photography is Landforms work; the concept imagery inside the app is AI concept visualization.
QR code that opens the PlotVisionAI mobile app page at landscapedesignsonline.com/download.html

Scan for the mobile appOpens the PlotVisionAI app page on your phone

Early access

Ready to visualize your property?

A patio concept usually goes through two or three size revisions before it is right. Credits cover those revisions.

Checkout is hosted by Stripe and opens in a new tab. Card details are entered on Stripe’s own page, never on this site. Early-access pricing, subject to change — accounts and self-serve generation are still in development. Full detail on the pricing page.

Starter ($19 for 20 credits) is approved but its Stripe payment link is not live yet, so the Starter card opens a request form instead of checkout. The other prices go straight to Stripe.

Next step

Want to see the terrace before it is poured?

One photo from the back door, and a note about how many people you want to seat, is enough to start.

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