Homeowners Helen and Frank Slupesky have lived for many years in their suburban home. They love their backyard with its huge spreading oak trees as its dramatic centerpiece. Now they want to give their front yard a coherent new look that downplays the broad driveway and three-car garage and makes the most of their narrow street front.
A 1950s raised ranch gets a colorful makeover that includes a front yard incorporating large landscape boxes, a terra-cotta stained driveway and new paint accents that help define the home’s boxy shape.
Rebecca and Nick Haussling have hectic work schedules, which leaves little time for tackling projects around the house. Steve Watson and his team help them with a few projects on their to-do list. The biggest project is creating a romantic feeling backyard patio space with a covered hot tub and new lighting. They also upgrade their gravel driveway using a decomposed granite material.
A family of four is desperate to have an outdoor space as beautiful as their recently-renovated Mediterranian-style home. The home has beautiful french doors that open to a miniature deck with a yard filled with dirt and renovation left-overs. Chris and his team tackle the cleanup and demo first. Then they create design elements that will enhance the home's classic style. They build a huge deck off the French doors that opens to a grass-and-stone tiled yard, a cobalt blue fountain and an oversized gazebo with canvas shade panels that enclose an outdoor living room. Chris also has a beautiful solution an unattractive driveway that edges next to the new backyard space.
Chris tackles a yard so unusable, the homeowners' two young daughters would rather play in the driveway than in the large yard behind the house. The space opens to an uneven brick patio, sloping yard and a play area that's too far from the house for the parents to easily supervise. Chris and his team design a space that blends in with the home's natural surroundings, yet is functional for the family's needs. The team demos the dangerous patio and levels the yard. They create a massive stone patio, with raised dining deck, a natural-looking waterfall and pond with fish and a beautiful gazebo set high on a slope, designed for gazing over the yard. And to keep the children happy, a hand-made outdoor xylophone becomes the centerpiece of the garden.
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