Thursday, March 6, 2014
Private Residence Gig Harbor Fox Island New Build
New Build, Gig Harbor/Fox Island Home...Complete hardscape, including concrete retaining wall, planter boxes and circular soak tub, teak patio and lighting. The house was built on a significant slope to take advantage of the amazing views; which made it elevated on beams. They also wanted to take advantage of the backyard space under the beams. This was my solution...
Enhance Your Home Garden By Landscaping Design Ideas
Enhance Your Home Garden By Landscaping Design Ideas
A home garden is a place, which can give identity to your home building in a neighborhood. You can use very little creativity to enhance to look and feel of your garden so that it stands out from the rest of the gardens in the neighborhood.
Here is a list of probable elements you can add to your landscaping garden so that everybody loves it and you get the credit.
1) The compound wall of the home plot defines the boundary of the garden as well. Use paintings on the wall surface (inside), that will add excitement to your garden . You can go for a theme based paintings such as nature, waterfalls, sunsets etc..
2) Use stone sculptures of actual human size. These statues greatly add a uman touch to the garden and also defines a scale to the space.
Everything we use in our daily lives such as clothes, kitchen utensils, office equipment, computer parts, are all always related to human measurements. If this is the case with all other objects, why exclude a garden from it.
3) Use a fountain with artificial mood creating lighting. This adds a great amount of curiosity during night.
4) Use Japanese stone lanterns instead of the normal ones. This is because stone has its own rough texture as against the smooth and fresh look and feel of the plants in a garden.
This creates "hot-spots" in the garden if you plan to use light bulbs inside the stone lanterns. These stone lanterns can also be used along a pathway to define the direction of movement.
5) Design a pond that flows partially into the home building. This is a great way to seamlessly connect the interior and exterior of a home landscape.
6) If your garden has a swimming pool, then instead of having normal diving boards, be little creative and make it into the shape of a house or the person coming out of the mouth of an animal etc...Your kids will love this and will be remembered whoever visits your garden.
7) Create private semi-open patios in your garden. This is a great place to sit around and chat with your loved ones and also can be used as a small deck during a small party.
8) If you love pets, then try rabbits, ducks along with a small pond, in the backyard. These pets have very fresh colors and add great amount of liveliness in the garden.
9) If possible plants flowerings trees with fragrance. This is a free and absolutely amazing way to keep your garden fresh.
10) Create levels in your garden to distinguish various areas as per the function of the garden. A leveled garden always creates interest and curiosity.
If you have read this article completely you can see I have hardly talked about plats and their species in landscaping.
So landscaping design is also about using creativity with materials and their finishes. I hope this article helps you to start thinking creatively about your home garden and generate more unique ideas.
Enhance Your Home Garden By Landscaping Design Ideas
Chinese Broadleaf
Helwinga japonica
The lone species in the Helwinga family, it is native to Japan, central & western China, Bhutan, Burma and Taiwan.
It is a handsome, vigorous large arching shrub, it can reach a maximum size of 15 x 17 feet though usually less than half that.
It is an attractive, leafy attractive foliage plant with leaves up to 7 x 4.5 inches in size that are deep green turning to purple-gray in autumn. The bristly tooth margined foliage is similar to that of Aucuba but is deciduous.
The leaves on vigorous stems are elliptic and leaves on older branches are more ovate. They are borne on leafstalks up to 2 inches in length.
The greenish-white flowers borne from the leaves in late spring are small and not of ornamental value. They are followed by small ovoid black berries late summer into fall.
The stems are yellowish-green.
Hardy zone 6 to 8 ( based on seed source from coldest parts of natural range ).
It prefers moist shady conditions and is excellent for planting in a woodland understory.
Propagation is from seed sown after 4 to 5 month cold stratification; also from severing the lateral root suckers that naturally enable this shrub to eventually form a thicket.
* photo taken on May 8 2010 @ U.S. National Arboretum, D.C.
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The lone species in the Helwinga family, it is native to Japan, central & western China, Bhutan, Burma and Taiwan.
It is a handsome, vigorous large arching shrub, it can reach a maximum size of 15 x 17 feet though usually less than half that.
It is an attractive, leafy attractive foliage plant with leaves up to 7 x 4.5 inches in size that are deep green turning to purple-gray in autumn. The bristly tooth margined foliage is similar to that of Aucuba but is deciduous.
The leaves on vigorous stems are elliptic and leaves on older branches are more ovate. They are borne on leafstalks up to 2 inches in length.
The greenish-white flowers borne from the leaves in late spring are small and not of ornamental value. They are followed by small ovoid black berries late summer into fall.
The stems are yellowish-green.
Hardy zone 6 to 8 ( based on seed source from coldest parts of natural range ).
It prefers moist shady conditions and is excellent for planting in a woodland understory.
Propagation is from seed sown after 4 to 5 month cold stratification; also from severing the lateral root suckers that naturally enable this shrub to eventually form a thicket.
* photo taken on May 8 2010 @ U.S. National Arboretum, D.C.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Portable Fire Pit for Under 500
The Tailgater
This portable powder coated fire pit is perfect for tailgating, the beach, camping, backyard bbq parties and more. Its lightweight and can be moved easily by one person. All you have to do is hook it up to a propane tank and viola, you have a fire pit you can take virtually anywhere you want.
It measures 24" x 24" square x 18" high and includes a 24" Manual Light System Burner, aluminum pan, lava rock, 1/2" flex line & key valve. At only $499.00, this portable fire pit is a steal and deal you cant pass up! You can also get an optional battery operated ignition system for an additional $750.00.
Add a custom steel oak log kit to help radiate heat and bring some aesthetic appeal to your fire pit.
The Tailgater is also available in copper coming in at $1,199.00.
Visit us online or call today to get your tailgater and start bringing a warm glow to your party, wherever you take it! 1-877-556-5255.
Custom Angled Tiki Torches Video
We recently built out 5 custom angled tiki torches for a client in South Dakota. These natural gas crossfire burners are 6" wide at the base, angled sides incline 3" up to 4.5" top width. LP or Natural gas available. The tiki torch is ignited by a 3 Volt battery operated with toggle Ignition Kit in an electrical box.
Please contact us online for more information, or call today. 1-877-556-5255
landscaping ideas for small front yard
Landscaping Ideas For Modest Front Metres
Having a tiny front yard isnt any excuse because of not putting just about any thought or even effort in to creative landscaping ideas that could set your own home with charm of the entrance well higher than the neighbors. Locating a few bushes on each side of the door and contacting it each day is one typical mistake property owners make.
Allow me to share 5 fast and simple front yard landscaping ideas for little front back yards that wont break your budget and can become completed in the weekend.
One. Create a package garden upon either side in the front measures or veranda. Adding planting pots in the exact same color will prove to add a single look. Differ the size and also height regarding visual awareness. Using the same colours and shades in the blossom palette will be very advanced and classy.
Two. Include a kidney-shaped berm on the front garden as part of your landscaping program. Plant simple maintenance evergreens plus some small blooming bushes regarding softness and also color. This may create a number of privacy in the street without having yet not masses the house an excessive amount of and will let sunshine in the house.
Three. Add a six-foot rounded brick paver deck. Create a place at the front access into the home or away and off to the side in the sidewalk towards the door. Position a small outside table and also chair looking for two inside the center, put in a potted place and you have designed a welcoming place whether your friends and relatives are arriving or planning. Place tiny bushes as well as perennial vegetation around the terrace, and finish it well with a Several inch coating of compost.
4. Draw in butterflies and also soften the difficult edges from the driveway as well with modest pockets involving flowerbeds selected and planted with plants that appeal to butterflies. Colourful flowers such as zinnia, gay feather, cosmos, along with lantana produce the nice nectar the seeing stars love, will prove to add color as well as interest in your front yard. Incorporate a small chicken bath full of fresh water as well as a rock for that butterflies in order to sun about.
5. Wash the foundation plants. Pull aged and poor plants from the landscaping, and trim and cut what is quit. Fill in the modern bare areas with low herbage and indigenous plants. With your plants retains water, and can give the yard an up to date contemporary feel and look. Add a tiny water feature nearby the front door. Trickling h2o can be pleasing and calming and the motion adds vitality. Adding exterior lights around the brand new garden may light up the evening to show off leading garden and also accent your house features.
Having a tiny front yard isnt any excuse because of not putting just about any thought or even effort in to creative landscaping ideas that could set your own home with charm of the entrance well higher than the neighbors. Locating a few bushes on each side of the door and contacting it each day is one typical mistake property owners make.
Allow me to share 5 fast and simple front yard landscaping ideas for little front back yards that wont break your budget and can become completed in the weekend.
One. Create a package garden upon either side in the front measures or veranda. Adding planting pots in the exact same color will prove to add a single look. Differ the size and also height regarding visual awareness. Using the same colours and shades in the blossom palette will be very advanced and classy.
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Three. Add a six-foot rounded brick paver deck. Create a place at the front access into the home or away and off to the side in the sidewalk towards the door. Position a small outside table and also chair looking for two inside the center, put in a potted place and you have designed a welcoming place whether your friends and relatives are arriving or planning. Place tiny bushes as well as perennial vegetation around the terrace, and finish it well with a Several inch coating of compost.
4. Draw in butterflies and also soften the difficult edges from the driveway as well with modest pockets involving flowerbeds selected and planted with plants that appeal to butterflies. Colourful flowers such as zinnia, gay feather, cosmos, along with lantana produce the nice nectar the seeing stars love, will prove to add color as well as interest in your front yard. Incorporate a small chicken bath full of fresh water as well as a rock for that butterflies in order to sun about.
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