Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love by Julie Moir Messervy is your ultimate guide to transforming your outdoor space into a personal paradise. This book combines big-picture design concepts with practical step-by-step instructions, making it easy for anyone to bring their landscaping vision to life.
Key features:
- Seven Key Design Concepts: Acclaimed landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy introduces seven essential principles to help you rethink and revitalize your landscape.
- Expert Insights: Learn to view your property through a designer's lens, with clear explanations and practical tips that simplify the design process.
- Inviting Front Yards: Create a warm and welcoming entrance that enchants your friends and neighbors.
- Functional Backyards: Design spaces that are perfect for entertaining and relaxation, ensuring your outdoor area is both beautiful and practical.
- Private Sanctuaries: Discover how to craft peaceful retreats within your landscape for moments of solitude and reflection.
Julie Moir Messervy's vision for composing landscape of beauty and meaning is furthering the evolution of landscape design and changing the way people create and enjoy their outdoor surroundings. With over three decades of experience, eight books (incuding Home Outside and Outside the Not So Big House with Sarah Susanka), and numerous high-profile lectures, Messervy is an innovative leader in landscape and garden design theory and practice. Her landscape architecture and design firm, JMMDS, is located in Saxtons River, Vermont.