JAAB's

Landscaping & Hardscaping · Mission, TX

About

Designing your ideas. The first thing on JAAB’s service list is a drawing, in 2D and 3D, before anything is dug, poured or laid.

Driveways, patios, travertine, turf, irrigation, pergolas, fences and concrete, out of Mission, All RGV. Most yards need three or four of those at once, in a particular order, which is the argument for drawing the whole thing first.

A back patio of tan pavers laid in herringbone, with a dark brown band running around it inside a lighter outer edge

Paving / Stone

What you drive on, walk on and put the furniture on.

Driveway Pavers, Patio Pavers, Travertine & Tile, Concrete

A front lawn with mulched square cut-outs let into it, edged by a cream curb laid to a wave and a dark gray gravel bed planted with cacti

Lawns / Planting

The green side, and the water that keeps it that way.

Landscaping, Turf & Grass, Irrigation, Water Features

A back yard with a swimming pool, a travertine deck and a timber-posted shade structure over the patio furniture

Structures / Site Work

Drawn first, cleared first, then built up.

2D & 3D Design, Pergolas & Palapas, Fences, Land Clearing

Before / After

One driveway, one camera position.

Cracked slab in, checkerboard pavers out. Drag the handle. Both photographs were taken from the same spot.

The same driveway after the work: laid over its whole area in a checkerboard of dark brown and tan pavers, edged and run up to the garage opening

The same driveway before the work: plain gray concrete in slabs, cracked across the middle and weeded along the joints, running up to the open garage

BeforeAfter

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Pattern library

Five ways to lay a surface.

Drawn, not photographed. Hover to pause, then open the paving page to see what each one does under a car.

Studio tools

Try it before anyone picks up a shovel.

Laying patterns

All four are in JAAB’s own photographs. The choice changes both the look and how the surface behaves under a turning wheel.

Units lock against each other in two directions, which is why it is the pattern that goes down where vehicles turn and brake. The most work to cut in at the edges, and the most stable once it is there.

Design your yard