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: солнечная, летняя спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в стиле кантри с детским городком, хорошей освещенностью и мульчированием

Свежая идея для дизайна: солнечная спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в классическом стиле с хорошей освещенностью - отличное фото интерьера

20' x 25' Basketball Court. 10' x 20' Rebounder. SnapSports DuraCourt flooring.
Стильный дизайн: летняя спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в классическом стиле с детским городком, полуденной тенью и мощением тротуарной плиткой - последний тренд

Стильный дизайн: весенняя спортивная площадка среднего размера на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с полуденной тенью и покрытием из каменной брусчатки - последний тренд

Front yard pathways
Свежая идея для дизайна: летняя спортивная площадка среднего размера на переднем дворе в стиле модернизм с полуденной тенью и мощением тротуарной плиткой - отличное фото интерьера

Nice little 1/2 basketball court tucked away in the corner of this nicely landscaped backyard. The court is the top rated outdoor sports surfacing and basketball hoops by SnapSports http://www.snapsports.com nationwide

Стильный дизайн: летняя спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в стиле неоклассика (современная классика) с полуденной тенью и покрытием из каменной брусчатки - последний тренд

Weston Custom Multi-sport backyard basketball court, with lighting, tennis net and tennis hit board
Стильный дизайн: спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в классическом стиле с полуденной тенью и покрытием из каменной брусчатки - последний тренд

A sports court brings functionality to any space. A little college love was displayed on this family's court and nearby landscaping directed the focus to the court.

The natural grass seen on golf and putting greens might make people green with envy, since it’s so close cropped yet lush. But grass on putting greens needs an amazing amount of work to keep it healthy and manicured. Our golf and putting greens don’t.

На фото: солнечная спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в классическом стиле с хорошей освещенностью и покрытием из гравия

Свежая идея для дизайна: солнечная спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в морском стиле с хорошей освещенностью, подпорной стенкой и мульчированием - отличное фото интерьера

Short garden wall separates garden from lawn nicely. This patio was installed to support an above ground pool.
Источник вдохновения для домашнего уюта: спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в классическом стиле с подпорной стенкой, полуденной тенью и мощением тротуарной плиткой

This is the ultimate backyard! Customer first purchased a putting green. He liked it so much that decided to purchase a Sport Court as well! Sport Court 60'x32' Putting Green 25'x12' + Fringe/Chipping James Kach

Bluff landscape with Bocce court and Stepstone pavers make for a great outdoor living space. Holly Lepere
Идея дизайна: солнечная спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в морском стиле с хорошей освещенностью и мощением тротуарной плиткой

The summer butterfly garden greets the weary traveler upon arrival. Photo by William Healy
Свежая идея для дизайна: солнечная, летняя спортивная площадка среднего размера на боковом дворе в классическом стиле с хорошей освещенностью - отличное фото интерьера

На фото: спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в восточном стиле с

13'x26' Custom Putting Green CA
На фото: спортивная площадка среднего размера на заднем дворе в морском стиле