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Residential Landscapes 

Residential designs can include new construction, additions, expansions, and restorations. Project scope can vary from small homes to large estates. There are many landscaping styles to choose from and a close working relationship with the client is paramount.   

We have designed many varying residential landscapes from natural to formal English Gardens. We would be happy to discuss varying landscapedesigns with you to assure compatibility with the style and functionality aspects of your residence 

Our designs have incorporated walkways, patios, stonework, pavers, waterfalls, fencing, fountains, pools, trees, plantings, lawns, ornamental objects, play areas and equipment to name some of the possibilities.  Integration of such elements into an aesthetic plan to achieve the client's vision is our goal.

We provide a detail cost estimate to our clients to assure that the landscape installation is well within their budget.

Following are some examples of what we can do:

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There are many elements which can be a component of the landscape design, for instance:

Outdoor Lightening Fountains Statuary
Fencing Bridges Outdoor Furnishings
Pottery Gazebos Irrigation
Waterfalls  Paving Waterfalls

Here is an interesting example of the blending of landscape elements, taken from our "News" page, that can be accomplished by an innovative landscape design:

"How can I enlarge a small property by landscape design ?"

Many times this question is posed by property owners with small sites. There may be an answer! An excellent illustration is provided by John Ormsbee Simonds in his book "Landscape Architecture". He describes the landscaping of "The Court of the Concubine", an ancient Peking summer courtyard.

At one end of the courtyard stood the residence and at the other a light airy pavilion. The concubine longed for the open plains, lakes, woods, and freedom of her former homeland. As a result, the prince had his landscape designers attempt to recreate this mood and feeling in the cramped courtyard.

But how? By landscaped space enlargement and modulation!

To give the illusion of distance, courtyard walls tapered inward and downward and the rigidity of the enclosure was reduced by far plantings extending on either side and beyond the converging walls. The lines of the paving slabs tapered and textures changed imperceptibly from rough to refined and colors from warm to cool. Trees and plants in the foreground were bold in outline and foliage while those near the pavilion were drawf and delicate. Water in the nearby fountain gurgled and splashed, while in the far pools it lay mirror like and still. This landscape design by perspective alone made the view from her residence to seem expansive and the pavilion remote.

As the concubine left her residence she passed through various and ingeniously small landscaped reminders of her homeland, from a contorted "mountain stone" and wall with stylized clouds to meandering stones across a pond. A return path invited her to view new features and spaces, or the same courtyard objects viewed from a different perspective. The evolving complex of miniature landscapes was similar to walking through forest "rooms" each different and surprising, yet in harmony. Each transition from space to space, element to element was a harmonious progression.

A masterful example of space enlargement and modulation through landscape design! Can we be of help?

 

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