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Formal Gardens and a Lifelong Lesson
‘To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn How would you like a productive and creative exercise that takes place...
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Question: How can we make a big backyard cozy?
There’s a backstory to this question. It was asked by my friend, Cathy, during a small dinner gathering in my own backyard. It was one of...
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How Architecture Inspired a Color Palette
Colors aside, when I pulled up to the front of the building, I was immediately struck by one significant feature — its portico. It led to th
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Rock to the Rescue: The Ultimate in Low Maintenance, Water-Wise Landscaping
Landscape architects will agree that there’s more to a well-designed, well-executed gardenscape than meets the eye. As with any design, the
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A Nod to Water-Wise Landscaping ... An Old Garden is Redesigned with Drought -Resistant Plants
I drew scaled site plans and then dug into my box of color pencils. When possible, I kept current plants in place and filled in with more o
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Moonlit Water-Wise Garden
There are enough species of flowers, shrubs and trees to accommodate different styles of moonlit gardens – from classic, romantic and fragra
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An Ethereal and Otherworldly Garden ... A San Francisco Courtyard is Transformed
A few weeks ago, Napa Valley Register feature's editor, Sasha Paulsen, and I ventured down to the 2013 San Francisco Decorator Showcase. Thi
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Inside Out
I hear this phrase all the time, “bringing the outdoors in”. Today, I’m bringing the indoors … out. Design is about space, scale, balance, f
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Mega-Money-Making Summer Weekend
How would you like to automatically and easily add value to your home? What if it hardly cost more than a little sweat equity and a...
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Question: I just bought a plain, white box condo. I have zero furniture. I like many colors and ...
styles and haven’t decided on anything yet. I want to use color in a big way. I saw on your website that you sometimes used it...
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The Power of the Front Door
Who doesn’t want to make a good first impression? At the very least, who wants to avoid making a bad one? Your front door has the power to s
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Green Geometry
Has the California drought turned your green garden brown? Has the recent rain been enough to revive your dry and dead patches? In either ca
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Question: We have a Cape Cod house but most of our furniture is very Japanese. We like a clean ...
Asian style and don’t want to change. Our problem is the garden especially the front yard. We have about 30 rose bushes, a large climbing...
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Is Yellow the New Red?
As I drove to a friend’s house last week, I noticed that her neighbor had a yellow-painted front door. I then drove to my mother’s house and
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