K. Dakin Design won the 2018 CARE award from the Custom Builder and Remodeler Council of Denver for the reimagination of the landscape around this classic organic-modernist home designed by Charles Haertling. The landscape design is inspired by the original home and it’s materials, especially the distinct, clean lines of the architecture and the natural, stone veneer found on the house and landscape walls. The outlines of garden beds, a small patio and a water feature reiterate the home’s straight walls juxtaposed against rough, irregular stone facades and details. This sensitivity to the architecture is clearly seen in the triangular shapes balanced with curved forms. The clients, a couple with busy lives, wanted a simple landscape with lawn for their dogs to fetch balls. The amenities they desired were a spa, vegetable beds, fire pit, and a water feature. They wanted to soften the tall, site walls with plant material. All the material, such as the discarded, stone veneer and left-over, flagstone paving was recycled into new edging around garden areas, new flagstone paths, and a water feature. The front entry walk was inspired by a walkway at Gunnar Asplund’s cemetary in Sweden. All plant material, aside from the turf, was low water, native or climate appropriate. Photo credit: Michael de Leon
dimmable LED lighting • bio fuel fireplace • ipe • redwood • glulam • cedar to match existing • granite bar • photography by Tre Dunham Deck – mid-sized contemporary backyard deck idea in Austin with a fire pit and a roof extension
Evening view of cantilevered living room from pool patio. Painted steel fire pit with granite top, quartzite paving and wall stone, copper fascia, painted steel fascia at cantilevered slab edge. Bill Timmerman Photography
The primary patio space narrows into a walkway connecting to the fire pit. The planting beds on both side help define and separate the spaces. Photo courtesy of Mike Crews Photography.
Photography by Studio H Landscape Architecture. Post processing by Isabella Li. This is an example of a small contemporary drought-tolerant and full sun backyard stone garden path in Orange County.
The fire pit and patio are on a central axis from the kitchen and take advantage of an existing planting bed which was added on to previously. Mid-sized elegant backyard concrete paver patio photo in Milwaukee with a fire pit and no cover
Sunny Rousette Photography Inspiration for a large timeless stone back porch remodel in Atlanta with a fire pit and a roof extension
Prairie overlooking the countryside Photo of a rustic full sun backyard landscaping in Omaha for summer.
a cast stone path wanders threw a garden of succulents, cannas, ornamental grasses and subtropicals This is an example of a contemporary backyard landscaping in San Francisco.
