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Ketti Kupper Conscious Life Design
New hardscape floor with gravel, deck and colored concrete pavers. Steep back slope after. Pressure treated wood retaining walls to terrace the space and redwood clad facing and cap.
Accents Lighting
Exterior and Landscape Lighting of Chicago Urban Space.
Design ideas for a traditional patio in Chicago.
Design ideas for a traditional patio in Chicago.
Great Oaks Landscape Associates Inc.
Photo of a large traditional sloped shaded formal garden in Detroit.
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Southview Design
A paver patio (Anchor Afton, walnut color) to gives the homeowners the entertainment and dining space they wanted. The blended colors of the pavers pull together the colors of the roof shingles (brown) and the New York Bluestone (blue/gray). The smaller pattern of the pavers defines the space, inviting guests to sit. Plus, the plant bed between the wall and the patio gave the homeowners a space to plant seasonal color and an edible garden.
LandCurrent Landscape Architects
Screens next to the hot tub area designed by LandCurrent made the area private.
Design: LandCurrent Contractor: Pistilslandscape Photo: Pistilslandscape
DesignARC
Falcon House is located on Falcon Ridge Road, which winds along a steeply inclined ridge in a stretch of foothills within Carmel Valley in Monterey County. An old lichen covered barn and split rail, cedar fences characterize this area known as Markham Ranch, and contrast sharply with the preponderance of sprawling, large estate-style homes, many more at-home in the Italian countryside than any landscape of California.
Designed for a young family, Falcon House responds to the family’s desire to live a more modest lifestyle, eschewing overt displays of extravagance for an intimate and deferential relation to nature.
The 3,200-square-foot residence occupies a difficult portion of the northern slope of a hillside, overlooking a verdant valley and oriented toward Castle Rock in the distance. The steep terrain necessitated a compartmentalized plan capable of negotiating the gentle hillock at the center of the site. A corridor bridge spans two pieces of the house, uniting living and sleeping spaces and allowing an existing watercourse to flow essentially through the house unobstructed.
Large panels of glass open the living spaces to the landscape, beneath the deep overhang of a butterfly roof. Operable clerestories placed high on the window-wall allow prevailing breezes to cool the interior spaces. The bedroom wing of the house hugs the hillside as it turns to the west, ensuring privacy from the main living spaces. The sense of seclusion and protection of this wing is reinforced by its lower roofline and its embedment into the hill.
Initial resistance by neighboring homeowners has given way to appreciation, having seen the results of careful siting and a material and color palate sympathetic to the surrounding hillsides. The dwelling embodies an attitude of respect for the landscape, and through that perspective Falcon House has become as natural a part of its environment as the hawks flying overhead.
2008 AIA Orange County Chapter Merit Award
186 Lighting Design Group - Gregg Mackell
In order to meld with the clean lines of this contemporary Boulder residence, lights were detailed such that they float each step at night. This hidden lighting detail was the perfect complement to the cascading hardscape.
Architect: Mosaic Architects, Boulder Colorado
Landscape Architect: R Design, Denver Colorado
Photographer: Jim Bartsch Photography
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Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
The hillside garden two years after it was planted. This sloped hillside was been transformed into a beautiful tapestry of colors and textures in every season. I specified drought tolerant plants and shrubs that are low maintenance and deer resistant. Located in Novato, CA - Marin County. The hillside has filled in beautifully!
© Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
Dig Your Garden Landscape Design
Steep, steep slope below home in Sausalito with dramatic views. New plantings include a combination of succulents, euphorbia, new zealand flax, rubus, and native grasses/grass-like plants. Designed to provide erosion control and dramatic plant textures, structure and colors when viewed from the decks above. Photos and Landscape Design © Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Landscape Design. http://www.digyourgarden.com
Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS)
For this contemporary, Japanese-style residence sitting high on a hill in southern Vermont, JMMDS created a simple, clean-lined design using stone pavers, retaining walls, and geometric beds to define the area around the house.
The house is composed of two long offset barn buildings with eaves that are joined in the middle around an exterior stone courtyard. JMMDS’s design holds up the steep surrounding slopes with a long stone retaining wall bordering a rectangular quartzite terrace with a beautiful view out to the surrounding landscape. The wall encloses a level grass shelf around the house; outside the wall, less manicured turf drops away quickly down the slope.
Ledges on the hillside that parallels the house are exposed as an asset. On the entry side of the house, JMMDS designed a wall that retains the slope between garage and house, accessed by a set of broad stone steps and linear pavers that take a visitor straight to the front door. Plantings in geometric beds surround more quartzite pavers that form a terrace for the guest wing of the house. The drip space under the eaves is filled with black washed river stone.
Photo: Scott Wunderle
Westover Landscape Design
Often, less is more. Take this landscape design composed of climbing roses, hydrangeas, and lilies surrounding a bluestone terrace. This small, suburban garden feels both expansive and intimate. Japanese forest grass softens the edge of the terrace and adds just enough of a modern look to make the garden’s owners, urban transplants, happy. “My husband and I were looking for an outdoor space that had a secret-garden feeling,” says homeowner Anne Lillis-Ruth. “We’ve had fun adding furniture, antique planters, and a stone fountain to [landscape designer] Robert Welsch’s beautiful landscape. The white and green plantings provide the perfect backdrop to my collection of colorful table linens, glassware, and china. We love our garden!”
Dean Fisher loved it, too. “The setting is so lovely and relaxed. It evokes the south of France, with its intimate scale and the integration of house and patio through the use of the vines and other plantings.”
Susan Schlenger Landscape Design
Masses of Daylilies were just one of the plant selections. Their beautiful peach color went well with the purple color of the Butterfly Bush flowers.
Design and Photo by Susan Schlenger
Great Oaks Landscape Associates Inc.
Overall this landscape was designed to help combine all of the clients requested site features and amenities with a very naturalistic woodland and lakefront setting. This property was also set on a step incline which we were able to use to our advantage. The backyard pool and lower patio had to be artfully set within the steep slope and we were able to fuse this slope to our advantage to create this magnificent negative edge pool which spills down to the walking path leading into lake. The slope also allowed us to create dramatic vista and viewpoints over the pond and to the lake.The front landscape, though formalized, fits nicely within the wooded and helps to anchor the house in nature. The asphalt driveway was created to accommodate numerous vehicles and guest parking but also minimized the amount of trees needing to be removed. To finalize the clients requests we created two more living spaces; a lower patio by the pond as well as a deck and beach which nestles quaintly to lakeside and surrounding lakefront.
David Thorne Landscape Architect
The steep site unveils rich garden vignettes elegantly integrated through carefully crafted stone walls, stone paths, and abundant plantings. The stepping stone path sweeps down around the house changing scenes from a sunny rose garden to a shady glen, and grounds the visitor at bluestone terrace patios off the main living areas, which can be accessed from the interior through a collection of French doors.
This Piedmont residence received the 2009 Design Award as the Best Remodel and Landscape.
Landscape Architect: David Thorne Landscape Architect
Architect: Bill Holland
Landscape Contractor: Cleary Brothers
Photography: Treve Johnson
Stout Design Build Inc.
Colored concrete with decorative rock channels for water infiltration.
For natural landscaping that brings beauty to your home or business, contact the professionals at Stout Design-Build, where we offer you a range of landscape design and building services that are . . . "Organic. Responsible. Naturally!"
Stout Design-Build is a full service designing and building firm that offers a variety of residential and commercial services. We can help you with landscape design, landscape construction, building construction, and more. Our professionals have 20 years of design experience. We work with LEED certified, Green Point Rated, and standard properties. We focus on designing you a landscape that is efficient and beautiful with natural products from plants to patios, and with the implementation of water and energy conservation. We also renovate homes and offer them up for sale, providing you with stylish living at affordable prices. Everything we do is environmentally friendly, with great craftsmanship, so you will always get the best in quality whether you need landscape design and building or one of our other services.
Contact the professionals at Stout Design-Build in Los Angeles, CA to get beautiful landscape design and professional quality services. Call 310-876-1018 to set up your consultation!
BAR Architects
Matthew Millman | Matthew Millman Photography
Small country one-storey exterior in San Francisco.
Small country one-storey exterior in San Francisco.
Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association
Kimicata Brothers, Inc. http://www.kimicatabrothers.com/
Project Entry: The Baron Patio
2013 PLNA Awards for Landscape Excellence Winner
Category: Residential Hardscaping $15,000 - $30,000
Award Level: Honorable Mention
Project Description:
After meeting with the client and visiting the site for the first time we were able to get a pretty good understanding of the overall site. The back yard is a rather small area that was mostly taken up by a cement patio and walkway with a few timber planter boxes that bordered the garage. There was however a small area of lawn but it was in rather poor shape. The client wanted to completely wipe the slate clean and start over with a completely new design. They wanted all of the cement busted out and removed, all of the existing plants dug up and discarded (with the exception of a few), a damaged portion of the fence removed and the entire area completely regraded. Their only request was to leave the existing stacked stone wall at the back of the property in tact and all of the other fencing that bordered the property. they wanted to create an outdoor space that was big enough to entertain a small party without making the whole area hardscape. They also wanted to make sure that a small area of grass was incorporated into the new design so that their dog would have some area to play. After the homeowners had the area re-designed and they recieved a final drawing from the designer, we could begin to do our demolition and installation work.
In order to successfully accomplish all of the clients goals along with the designers visions of the new back yard, a lot of re-grading had to occur. This grading would allow for the slope of the new patio and lawn to be very gradual and would eliminate having to build any retaining walls or steps.. The whole back yard sloped downhill back into the foundation of the house. So in order for us to construct a new patio and eliminate water from flowing back towards the house, a drain had to be installed to carry the water off of the patio and into the plant bed. After all of the demolition and excavation was completed we then focused on getting the slope of the patio and walkway just right. We made sure that the slope was gradual enough so a table and chairs could easily be implemented but steep enough to make sure that there would be no flat areas where water would pool. We also took into consideration the final heights of the proposed fire pit and raised planter bed. We decided to make one small change to the original plan with the clients approval. We installed a small raised portion of the patio along the side of the raised planter wall to designate an area for outdoor grilling. As we were doing all of the preperation work before any construction, we also installed a complete Hunter irrigation system for all of the new plants and lawn area Every other aspect of the designers specifications were installed accordingly with the exception of a few material substitutes.
After we were able to get the area exactly how we wanted it and the irrigation system was complete, we could start the construction. We used all Techo-Bloc materials for all of the hardscapes. Their Inca collection was used for the patio and walkway. Their Mini Creta 3&6 block was used to construct the raised planter wall and was capped with Portifino Coping. The fire pit was their Valencia edition complete with the accessory kit. We sodded the designated area for the lawn and planted all of the specified plants in their proposed locations. The new fence was constructed by a local fencing company where they were able to match the materials to the trellis's and arbor that they installed.
After the project was completed, the homeowners were very happy with their new outdoor entertainment space. We were able to successfully accomplish all of their goals and give them the opportunity to enjoy their new back yard.
Photo Credit: Kimicata Brothers, Inc.
Lazar Landscape Design and Construction
Vegetable garden at the bottom of a steep slope.
Photos by Ron Atik for Lazar Landscape
Photo of a traditional garden in San Francisco.
Photo of a traditional garden in San Francisco.
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Small footprint residential landscape packs a punch. Outdoor dining, outdoor kitchen, outdoor fireplace, indoor/outdoor living, spectacular lighting, great fireplace and fireplace chimney. Steve Silverman Imaging
Residential Steep Slope Landscaping - Photos & Ideas | Houzz
Gregory Davis & Associates
Landscape Design by Gregory Davis & Associates, www.gdalandscape.com
Abran Photography
This is an example of a contemporary front yard xeriscape in Los Angeles.
This is an example of a contemporary front yard xeriscape in Los Angeles.
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