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Avalon Northwest Landscape, LLCDesign By LaPatra Architects, Seattle
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
Growsgreen Landscape DesignPhoto by Caitlin Atkinson
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
LaurelRockKaren Bussolini
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back partial sun garden steps in New York with natural stone paving.
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back partial sun garden steps in New York with natural stone paving.
KAA DesignImage © Sharon Risedorph
Design ideas for a contemporary sloped fully shaded garden steps in Los Angeles.
Design ideas for a contemporary sloped fully shaded garden steps in Los Angeles.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignA local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral.
When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another.
We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within.
To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves.
This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity.
Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.
Derviss DesignA steep hillside is turned into a lush landscape using salvias, ornamental grasses, pomegranates and other easy care plants.
Inspiration for a classic sloped garden steps in San Francisco with natural stone paving.
Inspiration for a classic sloped garden steps in San Francisco with natural stone paving.
Blasen Landscape ArchitectureMarion Brenner
Design ideas for a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
Windsor CompaniesThe entire grounds of this Lake Minnetonka home was renovated as part of a major home remodel.
The orientation of the entrance was improved to better align automobile traffic. The new permeable driveway is built of recycled clay bricks placed on gravel. The remainder of the front yard is organized by soft lawn spaces and large Birch trees. The entrance to the home is accentuated by masses of annual flowers that frame the bluestone steps.
On the lake side of the home a secluded, private patio offers refuge from the more publicly viewed backyard.
This project earned Windsor Companies a Grand Honor award and Judge's Choice by the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association.
Photos by Paul Crosby.
Deep Seeded Landscape and Design, Inc.Belgard Mirage Glocal Paver stairs trimmed with steel edging welcome guests to a modern home and courtyard. Drought tolerant landscaping and outdoor lighting soften stone masonry and steel accents.
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsPhoto of a traditional back partial sun garden steps in Chicago with natural stone paving.
Côté Jardin Dordognejardin en Dordogne de type classique et chic
Large classic formal fully shaded garden steps for summer in Bordeaux with natural stone paving.
Large classic formal fully shaded garden steps for summer in Bordeaux with natural stone paving.
Hanselman Landscape and GardensLarge classic back formal full sun garden for summer in Philadelphia with brick paving.
Growsgreen Landscape DesignPhoto by Caitlin Atkinson
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
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