MNLA award winning landscaping using cobble street pavers, wheel pattern herb garden, white picket fence, and clay brick paver walkways. Project was installed in back yard of a Edina residence.

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.

Пример оригинального дизайна: двор среднего размера на заднем дворе в классическом стиле с местом для костра и мощением тротуарной плиткой

Front planting bed incorporating the lamp post. Salvia nemerosa 'May Night,' Hemerocallis 'Mary Todd,' and Monarda x 'Jacob Cline' along with other perennials, were used for their continuous bloom. Ornamental grasses, Picea abies 'Nidiformis', and Physocarpus opulifolius 'Monlo' provide structure and winter interest. Westhauser Photography

After a tear-down/remodel we were left with a west facing sloped front yard without much privacy from the street, a blank palette as it were. Re purposed concrete was used to create an entrance way and a seating area. Colorful drought tolerant trees and plants were used strategically to screen out unwanted views, and to frame the beauty of the new landscape. This yard is an example of low water, low maintenance without looking like grandmas cactus garden.

waterwise planting using succulents. Paving is exposed aggregate with a brass trim used to accentuate the circular steppers
На фото: маленький солнечный засухоустойчивый сад на заднем дворе в морском стиле с хорошей освещенностью, мощением тротуарной плиткой и с деревянным забором для на участке и в саду с

A compact yet comfortable contemporary space designed to create an intimate setting for family and friends.
На фото: маленький двор на заднем дворе в современном стиле с летней кухней и мощением тротуарной плиткой без защиты от солнца для на участке и в саду

Источник вдохновения для домашнего уюта: двор на заднем дворе в стиле лофт с уличным камином, мощением тротуарной плиткой и навесом

Идея дизайна: участок и сад в стиле модернизм с садовой дорожкой или калиткой и мощением тротуарной плиткой

Стильный дизайн: маленький участок и сад на склоне в стиле модернизм с дорожками, мощением тротуарной плиткой и с металлическим забором для на участке и в саду - последний тренд

The driveway was rebuilt with permeable Belgard 'Old World' pavers to complement the Spanish style home. Slabs of 'Autumn Gold' create steps up to the front seating area, which is contained by a seatwall clad in 'Mt. Moriah' ledge stone. Photo © Jude Parkinson-Morgan.

This modern backyard boasts a light, neutral color pallet and plants like yuca an ornamental grasses.
Источник вдохновения для домашнего уюта: засухоустойчивый сад на заднем дворе в современном стиле с газонным бордюром, мощением тротуарной плиткой и с деревянным забором

The clients chose a “petrified wood” look boulder that was core-drilled to become a fountain and now serves as a focal point while also providing water to visiting wildlife and soothing sounds for all.

На фото: маленький тенистый, осенний участок и сад на заднем дворе в стиле кантри с садовой дорожкой или калиткой, мощением тротуарной плиткой и с деревянным забором для на участке и в саду с

Multi-level lakeside terrace with covered outdoor kitchen, hot tub, built-in fire pit and outdoor bar
На фото: большой двор на заднем дворе в морском стиле с летней кухней, мощением тротуарной плиткой и навесом с

На фото: большой прямоугольный бассейн на заднем дворе с домиком у бассейна и мощением тротуарной плиткой с

Floating Concrete Pavers, Dolomite Rock, Black Slate Chips, Aluminum Edging, Pathway Lights, Paver Planter Box, Boulders, Privacy Fence and Soft-Scaping.

The backyard is proposed with a vintage feeling. Space is combining pathways, patio, fireplace, outdoor kitchen, swing, and colorful and different plant turfs. The backyard was converted into an ideal environment to hear the bird noises and rustling sounds of nature.

На фото: маленькая пергола во дворе частного дома на заднем дворе в стиле кантри с уличным камином и мощением клинкерной брусчаткой для на участке и в саду с