Hometown Brandon - Summer 2015

The new motor court offers a grand scaled entry feature and
compliments the classical architecture. The courtyard’s geometries,
materials, and ornamental plantings provide a classical and formal
foreground element. Paving recalls the granite cobble stoned
carriage courtyards of bygone estates. Garden walls, mature formal
trees, and lush plantings interface the architecture to the site and
create an appropriate sense of scale and place.
The existing rear yard featured a pool that had settled over
the years creating out of level conditions and drainage issues.
The pool’s form and materials did not complement the architecture
and surrounding plantings were overcrowded, stressed, and lacked
color and visual interest.
Steve’s design addressed all the issues and would capture the
spirit of place and bring it to its full potential. The plan called
for a complete renovation of the pool as the major focal point to
anchor the courtyard. Raised planters and special paving allude to
a reconfiguring of the pools shape to create structured geometries,
balance, and order. Fountains integrated into the paving provide
audio and visual enhancement and lush plantings reinforce the
pools location and primary focal point status. Brick garden walls
helped to define the space and included a flowering vine cladded
trellis and garden urn feature. Generous paving of bluestone, brick,
and special finished concrete provide a generous amount of space
for garden entertaining and lush plantings with special garden
accents define edges while providing year round seasonal interest.
Outdoor Solutions provided landscape architectural design
services and construction documents. They also managed the
project and constructed all site elements which included:
demolition, grading and drainage, site layout, paving, pool
renovation, brick and stone masonry, trellis, fencing, planting,
irrigation, and garden lighting. ■
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