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Worn concrete, boring garage door, no focal point.
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New garage door, fountain & paving.
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The main view from the house lacks a focal point
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A new fountain & planting masks surrounding noises and is nice to view.
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Old gate provided no privacy
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The new gate encloses the new courtyard, but leaves room for the dog to check out neighborhood action.
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Lots of boring lawn, using too much water and overgrown shrubs
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Curb appeal, mostly native plants that attract birds & bees, places to sit and raised vegetable beds
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Nothing but an expanse of lawn, worn concrete and a path without appeal
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The new path's surface varies from concrete to pavers and wanders through a garden full of color and motion. Raised beds for seating, too.
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Before: Nothing special. This great mid-century modern home and landscape could use a face lift.
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After: New garage door, stucco, courtyard wall and plantings create curb appeal.
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During: Design sketch for façade and new walls
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Before: all these tools and nowhere to store them neatly.
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After: The tools are in the cabinets to the right. At left, a potting bench with lots of shelves
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This project in Rocklin needed an attractive path from the house to the patio. It also needed a nicer fence, working underground drainage and a better view from the house.
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The new path combined with a retaining wall and pot/firewood wall meets all the requirements.
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This was not what most people would call a useable space.
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Transformed into a level patio with cooking areas, seating and dramatic lighting, this area gets a lot of use.
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Another view of the space, seen from the entry point.
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A new livestock trough pond opens the ball to people entering through the garden gate, inviting them into the patio.
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The old stairway to the home was narrow, cramped and uninviting. There wasn't even a path to the garden gate.
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The path now leads to the garden gate - the house is accessed via a wide, inviting stairway (the former stairs passed between the rock-clad column and the wall).
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The deck was not level and worse, it wasn't too sound.
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New flagstone paving replaced the deck with useable, level spaces.
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This gate didn't invite anyone to pass into the patio area.
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A new custom gate raises the excitement level well before anyone even sees the patio.
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This beautiful cactus and succulent collection lacked focus.
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A new seat wall and fountain, cobbles and a logical hierarchy to the plantings completely transforms the space.
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The dining room view didn't have a main focus.
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Views from the dining room are now framed by a Butia palm and focus on a colorful pot fountain.
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Before: the backyard, as delivered by the developer
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After: A place to sit and growing plants.
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Before: Dirt and a fence.
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After: a patio with a fountain, trees and flowering plants
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Before: A cluttered, weedy patio with multiple kinds of irregular pavement, difficult to roll a suitcase over this!
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After: Pervious paving is neat, poses no problem for suitcase wheels and eliminates a flooding problem.
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Before: Although lush and green, this garden used a lot of water and required weekly maintenance.
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After: A reclaimed wood deck needs little maintenance and is a natural gathering place for entertaining.
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Before: A lot of weeds but not enough patio. The old fence is not attractive and a hodgepodge of trellises create a messy look.
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After: the patio extends to a seat wall at a raised planter backed by uniform attractive trellises. As the plants grow, the trellis will become a green wall.
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Before: This courtyard bakes in the afternoon sun. Instead of being a welcoming entry space, it's an oven.
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After: A wood trellis shelters the entry to create a cool, shady welcome to guests in summer.
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Before: Heavy clay.
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After: paths, places to sit, a fountain and main patio. With time, trees will shade the patio.
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Before: A wet, sloping lawn but not enough universal access patio or sitting space.
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After: Easy access everywhere, less maintenance and plants that attract hummingbirds.
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Before: an unstable slope, no usable spaces and no universal access.
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After: Hard, flat, level surfaces for easy walking, a seat wall for sitting and plants for color and wildlife interest.
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Before: looking from the back yard.
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After: a new pool & spa with a deck that floats over the slope. A curved seat wall also functions as a guard rail.
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Before: The foreground is a flood plain (it proved this by flooding the year after the garden was built).
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After: Grasses, sedges, a native wilow and flowering plants are interesting year round and don't mind a little flooding.
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This is the same meadow about a year later.
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