Late at night you're driving down a dark, deserted suburban avenue and trying not to think about the Stephen King novel you re-read last week. Suddenly, in the corner of your eye, something
ICON_PLACEHOLDEREstimated reading time: 7 minutes Outdoor kitchen design is a lot of fun, but it’s also easy to make some pretty serious mistakes along the way. No matter what your outdoor kitchen has
I try to avoid walls where possible, but sometimes you just don't have a choice. Segmental retaining walls can be a great choice because they don't require a footer all the way to
Do kids still do chores? I feel like I never see anyone younger than me shoveling in our neighborhood. When I was growing up, the understanding was that part of why I was
Over the years I’ve slowly (and I mean slowly) been chipping away at my own yard. The problem is that it’s happened in fits and starts, at the rare moments where a rise
I'm currently working on a project to sort, categorize, and tag all the photos on my hard drive. All 24,585 of them. As a result I don't read as many blogs as I'd
‘Twas the holiday season and out in the shed your favorite designer had just bumped his head. I staggered on out and into the night when above me there shone a soft warm
This was a great Alexandria landscape design project. Sometimes you roll up to a new potential client's home and you see something that makes you say, "we're totally working together." That was the
Over the years I've had hundreds of clients come my way, asking for a patio or a kitchen or a retaining wall or new plantings or... whatever. Some have even considered materials and
There are no shortage of posts out there telling you when you should hire a landscape designer. Heck, I wrote one, “Do I really need a landscape designer?” way back in 2010. And