Let’s take another visit to the lake home and landscape project by East Coast Landscape. In the last post we traveled down natural stone steps alongside a well-built and engineered waterfeature. We’re now almost to the shoreline and standing on a wide path covered in woodchips. This path actually travels a roundabout and gradual climb up [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 3, 2010
Observe and Conceptualize You probably already have a notion as to what you want or need in your landscape. And if you’re a designer you’ve probably interviewed the homeowner to understand their desires. This is important information, but you should not let those wishes (and even requirements) constrain your initial thinking of the site. Keeping the general [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 13, 2009
Landscapes are often a work in progress. No matter how thorough your planning has been, the project is looking for those added tweaks so that…well, it just feels right. Years ago I worked for a design/build company as a crew foreman. This company had its own nursery/garden center. The designer would ask me to gather all [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 29, 2009
I haven’t posted recently on Project #6. The work there is done…well, for this year anyway, and I’d like to show you one of the last steps to completing this project. Plastering The Pool This was a special day – certainly for the homeowner, but for all of us involved with the project. No matter how many [...]
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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