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. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within. 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. 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 then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. 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. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. 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. When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. A local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design.
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