How to express your home through your landscape – Show Notes

How do you make sure your landscape and your house pair well? I talk about two different ways to make your landscape and your home work together: Transitioning the built and natural environmnents, and accenting your home’s architecture. Find out what works best for your home!

Whether you have a mid-century modern home, southwest style home, modern, seaside, victorian, etc – you can help your home be ‘at home’ in your landscape.

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Expressing the character of your home in your landscape

Tools for landscape expression
- Plants
- Hardscape
- Ornament

What you can do
- Transition indoor and outdoor spaces
  - Blend structure of home into landscape
  - Effective on most home styles
  - Plants – structure, symmetry, masking
- Contrast built structure to environment
  - Less common practice
  - Looks good with modernism, seaside, southwestern, and unique styles
  - Simple plantings contrast features of home
- Express your home
  - Characterize feel, ambience of home
  - Very interpretive, artistic process
  - Examples: relaxing, clean & tidy, cozy, modern, cottage, industrial
  - Utilize plants, ornament, and hardscape