Inside Out: Relating Garden to House - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584790466 ISBN 13: 9781584790464

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2000

Synopsis

Explaining how to integrate a garden landscape with the home, this richly illustrated study highlights thirteen remarkable gardens, representing different climates and styles across America, that have become intimate extensions of the houses they surround and features 150 full-color photographs that capture the garden structures, paths, borders, hedges, terraces, and other elements that join the indoors and outdoors. Doubleday Select Main.

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Review

One of the first steps in garden design is finding an appropriate match of gardening and architectural styles. If you happen to love English cottage gardens and live in a sleek, modern house, this blending can be especially difficult. Inside Out presents plenty of positive inspiration for people struggling with this stylistic dilemma and may provide you with the just the ideas you've been searching for. Over a dozen different homes and gardens have been included here, each with a totally unique style. Ranging from a weathered summer house in Connecticut to an ultramodern desert retreat, each home has achieved an amazing blending of indoor and outdoor living space. Lush photos emphasize the particular areas of each house where this blending is at its most delightful, with an equal amount of views taken from inside and outside of the actual home. One small garage of a turn-of-the-century mansion is surrounded by old stone walls, lush terraces, and surprising spaces for sitting. The transformation the owners accomplished in creating this space from a debris-filled pit is tremendous, and the result is a serene escape from city life. The tropical-island space created in Miami is an altogether different story, crowded as it is with varieties of palm trees, vibrant flowers, and a spring-fed pool. The pool was transformed from its original rectangular shape and chlorinated water to a natural-looking blue-green pond framed with ferns, irregular decking, and a small waterfall. No matter what your taste or style, here you'll find gorgeous landscapes that showcase the best of the art of indoor-outdoor living. --Jill Lightner

From the Publisher

-Demonstrates the essential relationship between a house and its garden -Features environmentally sensitive gardens from different parts of the country -Includes a wide range of styles, in both house and garden from contemporary, to traditionally formal, to naturalistic -A Main Selection of Doubleday Select Book Club

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1584790466
• ISBN 13: 9781584790464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160