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Plans
on the Table- Work in Progress
Design
Study # 1
Design Integration - Putting it All Together

Here's
where a homeowner can really start to see the usefulness of a
professional designer or Architect's worth in the fitting together
of the garden pieces. Notice how the driveway and the garden walk
in the example above, are integrated to produce a much more finished
and inviting garden entry. The addition of a 3'-high picket-fence
and an arched wooden arbor straddling the walk on an axis to the
porch, will make these a dramatic series of spaces as you approach
the home.
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The addition of accessories and plantings to soften and focus your
views through the garden will make the experience memorable. In
addition, by the interaction and change of surface materials (asphalt
at the drive and brick for the garden walk), the garden walk seems
to reach out and usher in guests by giving them subtle direction
where to enter the home.
In
addition this solution addresses the need for a generous driveway
width (12' to 18') and screening of guest parking from the road
with plant materials to diminish the sight of automobiles while
focusing on the architecture.
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