A Modern Full-Yard Landscape in Queen Creek
This project is what happens when a brand-new modern home gets a landscape designed to match it. The homeowners on S 188th Place wanted clean lines, low water use, and a backyard the whole family could actually live in — pool, play space, and patio all working off one cohesive plan instead of a handful of disconnected projects. Scape Tech Landscaping and Design designed and built the front and back together, so every surface relates to the next.
The home sits in the Chandler Heights Citrus area of Queen Creek, near Crismon Road and Chandler Heights Road in the 85142 zip code — one of the East Valley’s fastest-growing pockets, where larger lots and open mountain views give a contemporary build room to breathe. We leaned into that with a crisp, monochrome palette: large-format gray pavers, deep-green artificial turf, and decorative rock, with almost nothing left to mow or water.
What Was Built
Large-Format Paver Pool Deck & Spa
The pool deck is laid in large-format gray pavers, set on a compacted aggregate base course over screeded bedding sand and locked in with a concrete edge restraint so the field stays true under daily use. The oversized paver format reads cleaner and more modern than standard brick-sized pavers, and every run was graded for proper drainage away from the pool coping and the house. The raised spa was finished to match the contemporary look, with a stacked-stone gabion-style face and a glass mosaic waterline tile that catches the light off the water.
Floating Pavers & a Backyard Play Lawn
The signature detail here is the floating-paver layout — pavers set into the artificial turf in a clean geometric grid, with the turf cut and seamed tight around each stone. It’s a high-end, modern look that takes real precision to install correctly, and it visually ties the hard deck to the soft lawn. The turf itself was built over a compacted base and weed barrier, then stretched, seamed, and nailed down before we brushed in silica-sand infill for blade support and ballast. Past the pool, a generous turf field gives the kids room for a climbing dome, swings, and a play bar — soft and durable underfoot, green year-round, and with none of the mud, mowing, or overseeding a natural lawn would demand out here.
Modern Front Yard: Turf, Pavers & Decorative Rock
The front yard carries the same design language. A sharp rectangular turf panel is set into beds of decorative river rock and low, water-wise desert shrubs, framed by a clean edge so the lines stay crisp.
A gray paver driveway and walkway tie the front to the back in the same tones, and low-voltage LED lighting was run through the beds and around the trees to hold those modern lines after dark. The entire front was graded to sheet-flow toward the street and away from the foundation.
Designed for Low-Water Desert Living
Every surface on this property was engineered for the East Valley: proper base depth and compaction so nothing settles, real drainage planning for monsoon storms, and water-wise materials — artificial turf, pavers, and decorative rock — that stay sharp through 110-plus-degree Queen Creek summers with very little upkeep. The finished yard is a clean, modern, genuinely usable property that works as hard for the family as it looks.
Planning a modern landscape in Queen Creek or anywhere across the East Valley? Scape Tech Landscaping and Design designs and builds the full property, start to finish.