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.

ナッシュビルにあるお手頃価格の小さな、春のカントリー風のおしゃれな庭 (コンテナガーデン、日向、マルチング舗装) の写真

An enlargement of circle drive island with a synthetic turf play lawn anchored by terraced steel tree planters. Photo by Rachel Paul Photography
オースティンにある高級な広い、春のモダンスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (日向、庭への小道、レンガ敷き) の写真

ヒューストンにある高級な中くらいな、春のモダンスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (半日向、コンクリート敷き ) の写真

This blank canvas space in a new build in London's Olympic park had a bespoke transformation without digging down into soil. The entire design sits on a suspended patio above a carpark and includes bespoke features like a pergola, seating, bug hotel, irrigated planters and green climbers. The garden is a haven for a young family who love to bring their natural finds back home after walks.

ラスベガスにある高級な中くらいな、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (レンガ敷き、ゼリスケープ、半日向) の写真

Brigid Arnott
シドニーにあるラグジュアリーな広い、春のトロピカルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、コンクリート敷き ) の写真

ボストンにある高級な中くらいな、春のビーチスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭 (日向、天然石敷き) の写真

ロンドンにある春の、中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (ファイヤーピット、半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

This zero lot line side area was dirt with 2 overgrown, unhealthy fruit trees before I designed the area to be both eye-pleasing and functional. The desert climate demands special consideration, so artificial turf was used as a 'doggy deposit' area, while the pavers lead from the front part of the house to the rear yard with pool, spa & BBQ, with lake and golf course views beyond. A combination of small and larger rocks require no water & create a riverbed effect & contrast against the green succulents. A bench offers quiet respite and view to the lake beyond.

This summer container is splendid. We can keep your Containers filled all year round!
シカゴにある高級な小さな、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (コンテナガーデン、日向) の写真

ニューヨークにあるお手頃価格の春の、中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな裏庭 (庭への小道、日陰、天然石敷き) の写真

Remodelling the garden to incorporate different levels allowed us to create a living wall of steps, creating the illusion of depth from inside the house

フィラデルフィアにあるラグジュアリーな広い、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (コンテナガーデン、日向、天然石敷き) の写真

Landscape and design by Jpm Landscape
サンフランシスコにある高級な中くらいな、春のトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな前庭 (半日向、天然石敷き、庭石) の写真

Note how we always have large bluestone pieces at the edge because we lay out the pattern with AutoCAD. There are two more granite steps at the driveway. See the granite lamp post.

A gate like no other.
ミネアポリスにあるお手頃価格の中くらいな、春のアジアンスタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

Featuring traditional wrought iron swing gates, seamlessly automated with underground brushless motors, this project exudes elegance and innovation. Pier and LED sign lighting enhance aesthetics and safety. Verified users and Tesla owners enjoy effortless entry, while a radar beam facilitates smooth exits. With a Hikvision intercom system, users can remotely control gates and manage deliveries from anywhere, blending timeless elegance with modern convenience and security.

Weather House is a bespoke home for a young, nature-loving family on a quintessentially compact Northcote block. Our clients Claire and Brent cherished the character of their century-old worker's cottage but required more considered space and flexibility in their home. Claire and Brent are camping enthusiasts, and in response their house is a love letter to the outdoors: a rich, durable environment infused with the grounded ambience of being in nature. From the street, the dark cladding of the sensitive rear extension echoes the existing cottage!s roofline, becoming a subtle shadow of the original house in both form and tone. As you move through the home, the double-height extension invites the climate and native landscaping inside at every turn. The light-bathed lounge, dining room and kitchen are anchored around, and seamlessly connected to, a versatile outdoor living area. A double-sided fireplace embedded into the house’s rear wall brings warmth and ambience to the lounge, and inspires a campfire atmosphere in the back yard. Championing tactility and durability, the material palette features polished concrete floors, blackbutt timber joinery and concrete brick walls. Peach and sage tones are employed as accents throughout the lower level, and amplified upstairs where sage forms the tonal base for the moody main bedroom. An adjacent private deck creates an additional tether to the outdoors, and houses planters and trellises that will decorate the home’s exterior with greenery. From the tactile and textured finishes of the interior to the surrounding Australian native garden that you just want to touch, the house encapsulates the feeling of being part of the outdoors; like Claire and Brent are camping at home. It is a tribute to Mother Nature, Weather House’s muse.