Do you cut out and collect magazine pictures of great landscaping ideas? Do you have a photo album of, say, a stately English mansion that you’d love to use for your home landscape design in Houston? Have you admired the plants and trees of European countryside estates and wondered if they would grow on the [...]
Just as the right frame showcases your favorite work of art, a well-designed landscape shows off your house to its best effect. Your landscape-the green, growing garden surrounding your home-sets the tone, creates an ambiance, invokes certain emotions. Its purpose is to provide continual pleasure for you, your family and your guests. To get to [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe defined art as filling space in interesting ways. This philosophy can be applied to landscape design as well and one interesting way to fill an empty landscape is with custom ornamental iron. Custom ornamental iron applications include wrought iron driveway gates, wrought iron fences, pool fencing, wrought iron garden gates, ornamental iron railings, [...]
An ornamental iron fence opens up the view to your well-manicured lawn and gardens. Not only a thing of beauty, it also provides a sense of safety and security. Knowledgeable homeowners use ornamental iron fences along their property lines, lining a driveway, around a custom swimming pool or as part of a deck design. Beauty [...]
As low voltage landscape lighting technology has evolved over the years, it has come to enjoy a position of prominence in many aspects of outdoor lighting. Its decorative enhancement of certain types of landscape forms is unsurpassed. Its cost-savings potential is much higher as well because it is much cheaper to operate than high voltage [...]
These companies offer a full range of landscape services including consultation, design, installation and maintenance. Landscape service companies usually specialize in one or more areas and subcontract related installation elements such as summer kitchens, luxury swimming pools, outdoor water fountains, other outdoor structures, and landscape lighting. The Steps to Get You There When contemplating hiring [...]
He or she studies construction theory and home design in order to identify the geometric forms that are common to both the natural world and the creations of man. This understanding enables the designer to better unify organic forms with home architecture and construct outdoor structures that compliment the house and blend harmoniously with organic [...]
It is at least a 1,000 year old art form in Spain and about a 700 year old one in France. Some of the earliest settlers of the New World brought it with them to these shores. The strength and beauty of wrought iron design has captivated us for centuries. Wrought iron designs signify an [...]
For those who love the sense of tranquility and peace that water provides, but don’t like the idea of maintaining a pond, a pondless water feature is a great choice. Whether it’s a simple wall fountain or a huge cascading waterfall, pondless water features are a great addition to any landscape. All pondless water features [...]
Whether it’s a narrow pedestrian pathway, a stylish faux-historic cart-path or roadway, or a public space, pavestone can provide smooth, even surfaces that will stand the test of time. The relatively new availability of manufactured pavestone designs allows builders to pave areas easily. Pavestone fills a particular role in landscaping stone projects, around homes, apartments, [...]
