Golden rays wash the valley and mountainside in light as the sun peeks above the ridge. photo by Lael Taylor
ワシントンD.C.にある高級な小さなラスティックスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観の写真

Mitchel Shenker Photography. Street view showing restored 1920's restored storybook house.
サンフランシスコにある高級な小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (漆喰サイディング) の写真

A local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral. When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another. We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within. To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves. This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity. Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.

McDunn Construction, Inc., Berkeley, California, 2022 Regional CotY Award Winner, Entire House $500,001 to $750,000
サンフランシスコにある高級な小さなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (漆喰サイディング) の写真

Dickson Dunlap Photography
チャールストンにある高級な小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観の写真

This Sears craftsman in the Del Ray part of Alexandria, VA was restored with a complete exterior renovation.
ワシントンD.C.にある高級な小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (緑の外壁) の写真

Renovated house with super low maintenance materials...Hardi-plank siding, standing metal porch roof, Versatex PVC trim, AZEK porch railing and decking, Marvin Integra windows, Therma TRU doors

Tom Crane and Orion Construction
フィラデルフィアにある高級な小さなカントリー風のおしゃれな家の外観 (石材サイディング) の写真

トロントにある高級な小さなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (レンガサイディング、縦張り) の写真

Taking the original carriage house and removing the existing shallow pitched roof and creating a new correct style roof for that period. New building materials were selected to match existing structures on the site keeping in character with them Robyn Lambo - Lambo Photography

This family camp on Whidbey Island is designed with a main cabin and two small sleeping cabins. The main cabin is a one story with a loft and includes two bedrooms and a kitchen. The cabins are arranged in a semi circle around the open meadow. Designed by: H2D Architecture + Design www.h2darchitects.com Photos by: Chad Coleman Photography #whidbeyisland #whidbeyislandarchitect #h2darchitects

Tad Davis Photography
ローリーにある高級な小さなカントリー風のおしゃれな家の外観の写真

Guest House
アトランタにある高級な小さなカントリー風のおしゃれな家の外観 (メタルサイディング、縦張り) の写真

ボストンにある高級な小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観の写真

A successful design build project by Red House. This home underwent a complete interior and exterior renovation including a shed dormer addition on the rear. All new finishes, windows, cabinets, insulation, and mechanical systems. Photo by Nat Rea Instagram: @redhousedesignbuild

A successful design build project by Red House. This home underwent a complete interior and exterior renovation including a shed dormer addition on the rear. All new finishes, windows, cabinets, insulation, and mechanical systems. Photo by Nat Rea Instagram: @redhousedesignbuild

photos by Liisa
シドニーにある高級な小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観の写真

Jeff Amberg Photography
アトランタにある高級な小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (漆喰サイディング) の写真

Rear of two story craftsman coastal cottage home built in 2016 by Sea Island Builders. White hardie exterior with Anderson impact windows and metal roof. Pool that extends under the home with living area underneath.