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Sweeney Design Remodel
Maintaining the setback distances suggested by the building department, Sweeney built a garden shed addition that matched the color and architectural detail of the home. It was placed within 10 ft of the rear property line and 15 ft from the side lot line to provide functional access to the shed and built parallel to the fence. Looking at the landscape, the shed was also strategically placed on level ground, away from water collection points, and low branches.
Hendy Curzon Gardens Ltd
A modern classical front of house garden in Kingham
Design ideas for a country garden in London.
Design ideas for a country garden in London.
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Scott Brinitzer Design Associates
The garden that we created unifies the property by knitting together five different garden areas into an elegant landscape surrounding the house. Different garden rooms, each with their own character and “mood”, offer places to sit or wander through to enjoy the property. The result is that in a small space you have several different garden experiences all while understanding the context of the larger garden plan.
Karen Rogers at KR Garden Design
Walpole Garden, Chiswick
Photography by Caroline Mardon - www.carolinemardon.com
Design ideas for a small traditional patio steps in London with brick paving.
Design ideas for a small traditional patio steps in London with brick paving.
Young & Young Architects
Photo of a medium sized and beige retro bungalow brick detached house in Detroit with a shingle roof and a hip roof.
Barnes Walker Ltd - Landscape Architects
Barnes Walker Ltd
Rural back patio steps in Manchester with natural stone paving and no cover.
Rural back patio steps in Manchester with natural stone paving and no cover.
Jenny Bloom Garden Design
Jenny Bloom
This is an example of a traditional back garden seating in London.
This is an example of a traditional back garden seating in London.
Carriage House Gardens
Design ideas for an expansive traditional back patio in New York with a roof extension and concrete paving.
Broadhurst + Associates
Looking East Toward The Enclosed Sun Garden
Close to the house and terraces, the effect of ornamental plants “volunteering” from the enclosure into the broader landscape was sought.
Fine House Photography
Fine House Photography
Small contemporary detached office/studio/workshop in London.
Small contemporary detached office/studio/workshop in London.
Kate Eyre Garden Design
Kate Eyre Garden Design
This is an example of a contemporary terrace in London.
This is an example of a contemporary terrace in London.
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Inspiration for a large contemporary back rectangular swimming pool in Melbourne with a pool house.
Mariani Landscape
Linda Oyama Bryan
Photo of an expansive and beige traditional brick detached house in Chicago with three floors and a tiled roof.
Photo of an expansive and beige traditional brick detached house in Chicago with three floors and a tiled roof.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
We were contacted by the owner of a Houston, Texas home who asked us to design a series of gardens and landscaping features that would compliment and expand the Mediterranean theme of his house into the surrounding landscape. This house sat on a very large lot of several acres in a secluded Memorial Drive neighborhood located near the 610 Loop. The home featured a symmetrical, linear appearance in spite of its two-story build, and our client wanted a landscape and garden design that would follow these same principles of self-contained regularity and subtle linear motion.
Creating a Mediterranean theme in a Houston, Texas garden and landscape is a bit more complex that it might appear at face value. The southern coast of Europe—particularly in Italy and Greece—is a mountainous area where homes and gardens are built on steep angles and sharp vertical rises. Gardens and fields are often built in terraces that climb the mountains due to the limited planting area and rough, rocky terrain. Limestone is the predominant rock type in Italy and Greece and has become iconic of this part of the world in our collective consciousness. Mediterranean homes and gardens are historically famous for their white stucco walls, olive groves, and carefully sculptured greenery embedded in a rugged limestone backdrop.
The challenge lay in taking an essentially three-dimensional landscaping style and transfering it to a Houston property. As we all know, this part of Texas is very flat, so a hillside garden is out of the question in the literal sense. However, using a combination of symmetrical forms and linear progressions, along with some innovative garden materials, we were able to mimic several aspects of seaside European terrain.
The key to doing this was to establish a combination of circular forms and linear patterns in the multiple garden elements we designed. French and Italian gardens place a heavy emphasis on order and symmetry, and both tend to utilize right angles to establish form. We planted a variety of low level growth around the house and rear swimming pool patio to emphasize its walls and corners. We then added three keynote forms to the landscape to create a Houston equivalent of a Mediterranean garden.
The first of these forms was a knot garden centered on the front door, located just in front of the home’s motorcourt. We planted boxwoods in three circular rows that looked like terraces on a hillside. In the center of the knot garden we planted Loropatalum, punctuated with a lone Crinum lily as the center piece. The rich purple of the Loropatalum draws catches the eye, and the vertical dimension added by the lily draws it upward to the front entrance of the house.
Moving then to one side of the house, we transformed a substantial portion of the yard into a parterre garden that centered on a large glass room that extended from the west wing of the house. This garden was populated by low-growth rose bushes whose amenability to constant trimming makes them an ideal plant material for parterre gardens, and whose colorful blooms a made them stand out from multiple vantage points throughout this Houston neighborhood. The garden borders were made from of boxwood hedges, and the central pathways were made using European limestone gravel that mimics the color of the limestone cliffs of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. We then completed the design by adding dwarf yaupon, a small shrub that bears a curious resemblance to clouds, all along the borders of the gravel walkways. This helped create the impression that the garden was located on a hilltop near the sea, and that the clouds were rolling across the shoreline.
One of the most appealing attributes of this Houston, Texas property is its superb location. The back of the yard borders a 50-foot ravine carved out of the earth by a major tributary of Buffalo Bayou. This seemed to us a natural destination spot for garden guests to visit after strolling around the west wing of the home to the pool. To encourage them to do so, we planted an alley of crepe myrtles leading from the pool area all the way back to the woods along the ravine. We then built a walkway out of limestone aggregate blocks that started at the parterre garden, ran alongside the house to the pool, then ran straight out through the alley of trees to the scenic overlook of the forest and stream below. For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds has specialized in servicing many of Houston's fine neighborhoods.
Ben Scott Garden Design
Large contemporary ensuite bathroom in Melbourne with flat-panel cabinets, grey cabinets, a freestanding bath, grey tiles, white tiles, grey floors, grey worktops and a floating vanity unit.
Kate Eyre Garden Design
Kate Eyre Garden Design
This is an example of a contemporary garden in London with a fire feature and decking.
This is an example of a contemporary garden in London with a fire feature and decking.
Kate Eyre Garden Design
Kate Eyre Garden Design
Photo of a contemporary garden in London with decking.
Photo of a contemporary garden in London with decking.
American Institute of Architects, San Francisco
Located in the city’s Richmond neighborhood, the EDDIE house is a newly renovated and expanded Edwardian era home completed in May 2011. EDDIE is an updated and contemporary version of Edward, retaining the scale and solid bones of the existing home, yet mixing surprising new materials, forms, and sustainable features to reflect our modern times. The project consisted of a complete remodel of the interior as well as a three- story, 1,100 sq ft addition to the back of the property. The structure was seismically upgraded and the new ground floor concrete with radiant heating was polished minimally to create a unique finished floor. EDDIE’s backyard contains an urban garden. Image by Gtodd Photography.
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