Parterre Garden
Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional formal garden in Chicago with brick pavers.

A lush rooftop garden overlooking Boston’s historic Back Bay offers stunning views of the Prudential and John Hancock Tower. The character of the site is amplified by the dramatic contrast between architecture and sky. Mature magnolias underplanted with hostas form a threshold into the historic brownstone. Weathered-wood planting beds spill with new hardy shrubs, perennials, grasses, and herbs; a paper birch and a wind-sculpted spruce lend dramatic texture, structure, and scale to the space. Rugosa rose, juniper, lilac, peony, iris, perovskia, artemisia, nepeta, heuchera, sedum, and ornamental grasses survive year round and paint a brilliant summer-long display. A collection of new and antique containers dot the rooftop, and a terrific orchid collection rests beneath the birch tree during summer months.

Photo: Laura Garner Design & Realty © 2016 Houzz
Mid-sized traditional rooftop and rooftop deck in Montreal with a pergola.

Elliott Johnson Photography
Country two-storey grey exterior in San Luis Obispo.

Upstate Door makes hand-crafted custom, semi-custom and standard interior and exterior doors from a full array of wood species and MDF materials. Custom white painted single 20 lite over 12 panel door with 22 lite sidelites

Custom mosaic swimming pool all within a Mediterranean style design. Photography: Bernard Andre
Design ideas for an expansive mediterranean rectangular pool in San Francisco.