ニューヨークにある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (半日向、砂利舗装) の写真

Blue/grey granite path and driveway leading to house
ロンドンにあるお手頃価格の小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、砂利舗装) の写真

Featured in Feb/Mar 2013 issue of Organic Gardening Magazine, this Boston-area courtyard functions as an entryway, parking space, driveway turnaround, and outdoor room. New York bluestone planks set into a sea of pea gravel can bear the weight of vehicles while allowing rainwater to permeate the ground, preventing run-off. Curving 7-foot-high green walls of shade-loving native plants create privacy and beauty, while native birch trees (Betula papyrifera) in the entry planters provide a handsome complement to the four-story Silver LEED-certified house by Wolf Architects, Inc. Landscape Architect: Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio Landscape contractor: Robert Hanss, Inc. Green wall: g_space Photographed by Susan Teare for Organic Gardening Magazine.

Intelligently Mixing Hardscapes A blend of small blackstar gravel, large, chunky blackstar gravel, and turf come together with a definitive border of metal edge, adding contrast and visual interest in the hardscape. The smaller blackstar gravel area acts as a wonderful overflow parking area, and the size of the gravel allows for effective mulching and spread of these new plantings. Beneath the gravel, honeycomb NDS gravel pavers add stability to the space and discourage gravel shifting and wash-out.

フェニックスにある中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、半日向、砂利舗装) の写真

Horsetail reed with black river rocks
ロサンゼルスにあるコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (砂利舗装) の写真

Custom wrought iron fencing, wavy contemporary metal panels, steel privacy screen for neighbors, decorative metal fencing design.

To read more about this project, click here or start at the Great Lakes Metal Fabrication metal railing page

Front of Home View
オースティンにある広い、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、川石舗装) の写真

A conceptual framework of long, straight lines anchors the landscape design for this proposed contemporary house set in a rural wetland environment. Against this datum, the site’s subtleties reveal themselves for interpretation and appreciation. The iconic element of a strong axial grass ‘runway’ serves both as a horizontal extrusion against which to read the natural topography and also as a platform for viewing the site’s wetlands. A monolithic retaining wall stratifies the entry area into a lower, private parking court and an upper, public one, which is further defined by a series of rough-hewn stone planters containing formal plantings of dogwoods. These planters break the plane of the retaining wall and extend to the ground, alluding to the substantial bedrock deposits that underlie much of the site. Stepped down from this plane is the fire pit terrace, nestled into the rocky structure of the site and offering views towards a vernal pond. Scott Carman

アトランタにある高級な中くらいな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (半日向、砂利舗装、ウッドフェンス) の写真

Foto Stefan Heininger Nun hat sich die Bepflanzung schon prächtig entwickelt!
フランクフルトにあるお手頃価格の中くらいな、秋のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、砂利舗装) の写真

Marty Ruona
オースティンにあるお手頃価格の中くらいな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (日向、砂利舗装) の写真

A family in West University contacted us to design a contemporary Houston landscape for them. They live on a double lot, which is large for that neighborhood. They had built a custom home on the property, and they wanted a unique indoor-outdoor living experience that integrated a modern pool into the aesthetic of their home interior. This was made possible by the design of the home itself. The living room can be fully opened to the yard by sliding glass doors. The pool we built is actually a lap swimming pool that measures a full 65 feet in length. Not only is this pool unique in size and design, but it is also unique in how it ties into the home. The patio literally connects the living room to the edge of the water. There is no coping, so you can literally walk across the patio into the water and start your swim in the heated, lighted interior of the pool. Even for guests who do not swim, the proximity of the water to the living room makes the entire pool-patio layout part of the exterior design. This is a common theme in modern pool design. The patio is also notable because it is constructed from stones that fit so tightly together the joints seem to disappear. Although the linear edges of the stones are faintly visible, the surface is one contiguous whole whose linear seamlessness supports both the linearity of the home and the lengthwise expanse of the pool. While the patio design is strictly linear to tie the form of the home to that of the pool, our modern pool is decorated with a running bond pattern of tile work. Running bond is a design pattern that uses staggered stone, brick, or tile layouts to create something of a linear puzzle board effect that captures the eye. We created this pattern to compliment the brick work of the home exterior wall, thus aesthetically tying fine details of the pool to home architecture. At the opposite end of the pool, we built a fountain into the side of the home's perimeter wall. The fountain head is actually square, mirroring the bricks in the wall. Unlike a typical fountain, the water here pours out in a horizontal plane which even more reinforces the theme of the quadrilateral geometry and linear movement of the modern pool. We decorated the front of the home with a custom garden consisting of small ground cover plant species. We had to be very cautious around the trees due to West U’s strict tree preservation policies. In order to avoid damaging tree roots, we had to avoid digging too deep into the earth. The species used in this garden—Japanese Ardesia, foxtail ferns, and dwarf mondo not only avoid disturbing tree roots, but they are low-growth by nature and highly shade resistant. We also built a gravel driveway that provides natural water drainage and preserves the root zone for trees. Concrete pads cross the driveway to give the homeowners a sure-footing for walking to and from their vehicles.

A large area covered with silver/grey granite gravel and sparsely planted with sun loving plants
ロンドンにあるお手頃価格の小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、砂利舗装) の写真

Custom wrought iron fencing, wavy contemporary metal panels, steel privacy screen for neighbors, decorative metal fencing design.

To read more about this project, click here or start at the Great Lakes Metal Fabrication metal railing page

ロンドンにある中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (砂利舗装) の写真

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ストラスブールにある中くらいな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、砂利舗装) の写真

アトランタにある高級な広い、秋のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、半日向、砂利舗装) の写真

オレンジカウンティにあるコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (川石舗装) の写真