Rooftop Zen Garden: Turning a Garage Roof into a Meditative Space

When Mimi Jensen noticed a depression in the gravel of her garage roof, she envisioned a large‑scale Zen garden. Designer John McRae covered the roof with fresh gravel and used lightweight urethane and polyurethane rock look‑alikes as accent pieces. “To keep it interesting, I rake a new pattern and rearrange rocks a couple of times a year,” McRae says.