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Articles about Residential Landscape Designer (0-50 of 82)
- Getting The Home Garden Design You Want
By: Jeff Halper | - Thinking about home garden designs opens up a realm of possibilities. Gardens are places of retreat and restoration. Gardens evoke pleasure, sensuality and intimacy. They are also places of change, every day, every season, every year.
Glorious home garden designs affect how we experience our entire living environment. A vital outdoor landscape design celebrates our regional characteristics (perhaps with a sprinkling of tropical plants) and complements the extant architecture (usi ...
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- Designer Gardens: Pure Enchantment
By: Jeff Halper | - The first thing to acknowledge about designer gardens is that "garden" is a noun and a verb. It seems that double usage was intentional since a garden is a place of action. Life happens here and humans, since time immemorial, have appreciated this intertwined idea, the ideal of it. A garden is life in motion, a process, a becoming.
With its beauty, a designer garden engages the senses. These gardens call forth both emotional and aesthetic responses. The mystery of fragrance from a ...
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- A Landscaping Pond Can Be A Valuable Addition To Your Backyard Landscape
By: Jeff Halper | - The ideal location for a landscaping pond is in a part of the yard that gets continuous sunlight. A pond that is completely shaded will have trouble supporting plants that need light to survive. A pond too close to trees may soon become covered in leaves and suffer from stagnation from rotting organic material.
Open areas are therefore much more practical both from the standpoint of aquatic vegetation and practical water management. On an aesthetic level, it works best to hav ...
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- Azaleas Are Magnificent, Luscious Color In Your Landscape
By: Jeff Halper | - Of the many things that a Houston landscape has going for it, planting azaleas definitely tops the list. Azaleas supply that heart-stopping beauty that tells us spring has arrived. Any and all landscapes benefit from such loveliness.
There are thousands of azalea varieties, although even the large garden centers will carry only a fraction of that quantity. Blossom colors run the spectrum from white to red. Planting azaleas in a butterfly garden design or shade garden design will a ...
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- Driveway Designs For Your Property
By: Jeff Halper | - A driveway is many things: a welcome mat as you drive into the garage, a utility feature that allows easy access and parking on your property, and an element of curb appeal. For all these reasons, your driveway design should be an important part of your residential landscape design.
Driveway designs are a subset of custom hardscapes, the non-plant features of landscaping that are tailor-made for your location. All design considerations for driveways need to be practical since the ...
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- Houston Driveways Lend Form, Function, And Design To Any Residential Landscape
By: Jeff Halper | - There are many types of Houston driveways. In terms of residential landscapes, a driveway, by definition, is a special hardscape that connects the street to the interior of the property. A driveway can either function as a motor court parking area itself, or it can lead to a designated parking area in the front, to the side, or even in some cases, partly behind the home.
Without the assistance of a professional landscape designer, the typical Houston driveway tends to be littl ...
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- Custom Hardscapes Can Be Uniquely You
By: Jeff Halper | - In landscaping lingo, hardscapes are the permanent features constructed on your property that serve both a functional and decorative purpose. Custom hardscapes are those structures that are designed specifically for you and your site.
A few examples of custom hardscapes include your swimming pool construction and other water features such as a disappearing fountain or koi pond, luxury patios and garden pergolas.
A long list of materials is available to build these ...
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- Hiring A Houston Swimming Pool Contractor
By: Jeff Halper | - Do your landscape plans include a swimming pool in your back yard, either a new one or the remodeling of an existing one? If so, your choice of a Houston swimming pool contractor will be a critical decision.
They will help you with the design aspect. Your choices are plentiful, ranging from
lagoon pool designs to waterfall landscape designs to site-specific designs. And just about everything in-between, thus pointing out the need for Houston swimming pool contractors who a ...
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- Design Build Construction Is The Wayt To Go
By: Jeff Halper | - Design build construction is the oldest type of construction in the world. It has always been based upon the idea that the architect, or master builder as he was called by some, was the supreme authority responsible for the creation of a structure. In the Ancient World, palaces, temples, and public forums were erected using this model of process flow. In today's world, a modified version of this model is still used in both home and landscape construction. Instead of the individual master bui ...
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- High End Modern Garden Design Creates Movement And Interest
By: Jeff Halper | - High end modern landscaping adds tremendous value to both residential and commercial locales. What differentiates these landscapes from standard modern and contemporary designs is their very intentional use of geometric shapes, exceptionally high-grade materials, and thoughtful selectivity when it comes to choosing plant species for gardens and ground cover.
Where we see the modern landscape designer seeking to support architecture from a complimentary point of view, the high-e ...
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- Designer Lamps & Picture Lights Bring Life To Originals Or Reproductions
By: Beth Guide | - Designer lights has won the world over with idyllic depictions of bridges, cottages and other country architectural themes. With a unique style of painting luminous accents upon lithographs, along with a team of professional painters, original reproductions have been made available to countless art lovers across the country.
Now you can bring small bits of the world as seen by professionals into your home. Whether it is an accent light or night light featuring his world, or a mant ...
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- Contemporary Koi Ponds Lend Presence To Many Environments
By: Jeff Halper | - Contemporary koi ponds feature very abstract and intentional manmade designs that follow the established rules of geometric order. The beauty of this form lies in the versatility and freedom of creative design that it affords the residential landscape designer. While it is truly a modern design element, its aesthetic is not limited to only modern landscapes.
It is not so much the style of landscaping that defines the shape and size of the pond, but the architecture of the home ...
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- Pool Coping Is One Of The Most Important Material Choices
By: Jeff Halper | - Pool coping is a masonry product that sits on top of the pool beam structure. It sits partly on the edge of the swimming pool shell, and it rises above the patio or deck. It is also one of the most important structures in swimming pool design because it provides transitional space between the patio proper and the surface of the water.
People like to sit on pool coping and dangle their feet in the water. Others prefer to stand on its edge at night and peer over into the depths ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Create A Designer Look With Table Lamps
By: Beth Guide | - With unique lighting solutions, you have the full authority to design a comfortable and beautiful living or work space. Whether you are looking for a total re-design, or just want to update the interior of your home or office, consider your lighting solutions wisely so that you will be able to enjoy your newly restored atmosphere every day.
When it comes to choosing what type of lighting solutions you want to incorporate into your space, take time to evaluate what you wish to acc ...
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- Use Under Cabinet Lighting To Improve The Value Of Your Home
By: Beth Guide | - Low voltage lighting choices include under cabinet lighting is among the smartest choices a homeowner could chose to incorporate into their homes lighting scheme. The flexibility of its adjustable wiring methods makes this type of lighting a favorite choice of architects, builders and interior designers.
Under cabinet lighting can be selected for each display application that your home presents. It can provide an atmosphere of bold illumination or a subtle glow of warmth and beau ...
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- Improve Your Homes Interior With Wall Lamps
By: Beth Guide | - Wall lamps are a striking way to accessorize, update and illuminate your homes interior. These mounted lamps are attached directly to the wall for a seamlessly sleek and modern to an Old World designer look. Wall lamps also provide a homeowner with a space saving illumination solution; perfect for either a small or large space.
This type of fixture can be used in a variety of scenarios. Although they are often considered a decorative item, wall lamps can be very functional, as we ...
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- What To Look For In Commercial Lighting Contractors
By: Beth Guide | - Many landscape lighting contractors are sole proprietors who rely on a handful of employees or a pool of subcontract labor. As such, they may not appear large enough in the eyes of major manufacturers to qualify for preferred vendor status.
Having to pay more for commercial and specification grade equipment than do many larger companies, landscape lighting contractors may at times feel tempted to use imported products or retail grade outdoor lighting fixtures to pass on savings ...
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- Lighting Your Bathroom With A Designers Touch
By: Beth Guide | - Designer bathroom lighting is eclectic in nature and stands out from ordinary lighting by sheik appearance, efficiency in form, and superb material manufacture. While you do not have to be a professional decorator to achieve designer bathroom lighting quality, you will need to develop something of a professionals eye in selecting top-grade materials and styles that convey a touch of the elegant rather than simply looking pretty.
Consider such elements as material, brand, and spec ...
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- Entry Gardens Are Extremely Important To Both Architecture And Landscapes
By: Jeff Halper | - Entry gardens are extremely important to both home architecture and general landscape design. They serve as transition areas between indoor living space and outdoor landscape designs. These transition areas are not merely places to pass through, but rather they are special landscape elements in their own right that contribute a very unique form of aesthetic to any front yard or back yard landscape. They add both decorative appeal and functional living space in otherwise unused areas that ar ...
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- Pool Landscape Design Ties Architecture To Landscape
By: Jeff Halper | - One of the most important services we offer to our clients is pool landscape design services. We do this because we know the importance of the position that a well-constructed swimming pool occupies on the landscape. A custom swimming pool represents a special environment connected to all surrounding environments, and it functions as a hub for all sorts of activities and recreation.
Regardless of whether or not guests every get in the water is irrelevant. Sink, swim, eat, dri ...
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- Residential Landscape Lighting Makes A Yard Safe To Enjoy At Night
By: Jeff Halper | - Landscape architects create advanced home landscaping designs for the express purpose of transforming properties into true outdoor living environments. The success of these environments depends greatly on residential landscape lighting, which serves a number of important functional and aesthetic purposes essential to the experiential elements of landscape design. Accessibility, appreciation, and varying emotional states are all inextricably tied to this highly specialized discipline essential ...
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- Outdoor Fireplaces Are A Hot Trend
By: Jeff Halper | - A 2005 survey taken by the Hearth, Patio & Barbeque Association revealed that Americans spent nearly $150 billion on home remodeling of which one-third of that amount went towards adding outdoor living areas to their landscape design. Further, 67 percent of those surveyed who intended to build outdoor living areas also planned to install outdoor fireplaces or fire pits. The American Society of Landscape Architects confirms this trend: Fire pits and outdoor fireplaces top its list of biggest tren ...
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- Garden Landscape- Lets You Experience The Nature's Therapy
By: Shannon Chisnall | - It will not be wrong to say that nature is men best friend, and what can be more rejuvenating than an exquisite garden outside your home that gives you a real paradise experience. Landscape design is the best option to make your surroundings beautiful, the method does not limit to garden or lawn making rather it is a complete gardening architecture. The entire architecture work adorns the beauty of your house, garden landscapes, pool landscapes, commercial landscape. But it is often seen that pe ...
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- Residential Landscape Designers Can Work With Organic Forms
By: Jeff Halper | - A residential landscape designer develops a landscape master plan that will reflect the architecture of the home and express the core values of the homeowner's lifestyle. This plan is developed after extensive consultation with the client that helps our team gain an awareness of both client mindset and intended property use.
Upon gaining a clear picture of both, the residential landscape designer then sets out to systematically develop key elements of this master plan in the ar ...
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- The Residential Landscape Architect Is A True Architect In Every Sense Of The Word
By: Jeff Halper | - He or she studies construction theory and home design in order to identify the geometric forms that are common to both the natural world and the creations of man.
This understanding enables the designer to better unify organic forms with home architecture and construct outdoor structures that compliment the house and blend harmoniously with organic elements. Such knowledge is not gained through haphazard trial and error or unconscious osmosis, but is rather cultivated deliberat ...
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- Landscape Gardening
By: Jo Harris | - Have you ever stopped and looked at a beautiful building with even more beautiful gardens? Have you ever wondered whether this is a park or a commercial / residential building? And the credit for such eye catching features goes not only to the architecture of the building but also to the surroundings. So what is landscape gardening all about? It is basically a relatively new theory which tries to take care of the Earth"s landscapes in a creative, holistic and sustainable manner. It encompasses a ...
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- Why French Garden Design
By: Jeff Halper | - French garden gardens use the same of geometry and symmetry that Andre Le Notre established in the 17th Century. The Lodge at Versailles had originally been a quite retreat used for royal hunts, but Le Notre turned it into a palace that became the envy of the European Elite.
Based on a pattern of parterres gardens divided by radiating walkways, reflecting pools, and ornate stone coping, the Versailles Gardens reflected an awareness of order and system that brought intricately s ...
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- Build A Greener Paradise By Paradise Landscapes
By: Shannon Chisnall | - If you love greenery in your surrounding and are intending to add plants, just think about what kinds of plants grow well in your area. In this context, you may need experts suggestion to know what plants are local to your region so that your success rate of growing these plans could be higher with lower maintenance cost.
Here comes a name ParadiseLandscapes. At least for Auckland people, there is no need to worry because they have their own local landscape designer which ...
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- Az Landscaping: How To Save Water With Your Landscape
By: John Waters | - Are you concerned about the amount of water you use in the maintenance and upkeep of your landscape? This article will provide you with ways to conserve water with AZ landscaping tips and guidelines. Whether you're looking to save water for environmental purposes or save money on utilities, the following information will be beneficial to you and will help you avoid wasting your resources.
Minimizing your water consumption is a win-win situation all around. You save money on your ...
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- Arizona Landscaping: How To Save Water With Your Landscape
By: John Waters | - Are you concerned about the amount of water you use in the maintenance and upkeep of your landscape? This article will provide you with ways to conserve water with Arizona landscaping tips and guidelines. Whether you're looking to save water for environmental purposes or save money on utilities, the following information will be beneficial to you and will help you avoid wasting your resources.
Minimizing your water consumption is a win-win situation all around. You save money on ...
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- Creative Landscaping Design The Most Complex Art
By: George Allin | - As a professional landscaping designer and developer, it's very easy to describe different issues related to outdoor landscaping designs. However, have you ever imagine how much emblematic and intricate it would be to create different landscaping designs for different customers in almost different conditions every time. When observed from a normal human being's eye you will experience only the beauty of landscaped designs and enjoy the natural soothing feel provided by those landscaped designs. ...
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- Landscape Designers - Your First Step To A Beautiful Yard In Orlando!
By: creditwisdom | - So you're finished making the inside of your Orlando home just the way you want it...now it's time to choose a Landscape Designer to complete your outdoor living space. He/she should be a skilled professional, who traditionally designs and maintains horticulture, night lighting, sprinklers, etc. (basically everything an Orlando homeowner could want). You might stop and think..."hmmm... do I really NEED a Landscape Designer?" The answer is emphatically "yes"!
Sure...most Orlando h ...
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- What Is Landscape Architecture?
By: Kimberley Ennett, MLA, ASLA | - Many times I have been asked what is the difference between a landscape architect and a landscape designer. Hopefully the following will answer this question.
The American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA, provides the following:
"Landscape architecture encompasses the analysis, planning, design, management, and stewardship of the natural and built environments. Landscape architectural projects include design of public parks, site planning for commercial and re ...
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