Very nice. What are the two trees planted by the foundation?

The one on the left is actually a specimen shrub- pieris japonicus. The tree to the right is a Hinoki Cyprus. Those two beds also have Japanese Blood Grass, they will be very dynamic in the summer.

Thanks- I think clean lines is key when the home's lines are so strong.

Beautiful, very Zen!

Love this! So beautiful and simple.

Thank you all!

Great job! I especially love the bed in the lawn.

Love the strong, clean lines. It definitely fits with the vibe of the house. Great work!

Nice!

I'm not sure why you think this home has fantastic lines. To me, it looks like a giant boring garage. However, 2 thumbs up on the landscaping. You took an eyesore and made it pretty!

Love it!

Nice. Do you know what specific color paints were used on the house?

Landscape is nice but they should have found/created a better place for the recycling and please, loose the flag. That shouldn't be their idea of "pop of color".
Garage doors need some subtle two tone patter or ? Too much grey factory door going on. Maybe paint a shade lighter or darker.
Push a bit more

It does look like a warehouse and I would have been a little more creative with the color rather than the flat toneless gray. Something that compliments the background of autumn colors would be perfect. A beautiful brown maybe? There are so many choices . And the garage doors need a "kiss" of alternative creative expression to carry the look and create some visual depth to the house. And looking at the landscape; makes my skin feel dry.

Before and after of what we did in Palm Desert CA .

I agree with gibbedittome. What reinforces the "warehouse" look is all the asphalt paving. Besides creating one heck of a heatsink, there is no color contrast between foreground and background. Personally geometric permeable pavers would pick up on the path in front of the home along with reducing the amount of water runoff.

@ Ross NW Watergardens:
I think you might be going about this the wrong way. You need to show photographs of the garden in the summer when the trees have their leaves and the grasses are lush with color. It is absolutely impossible to judge the outcome with the wintertime photographs you've provided. This is why the negative feedback is focused on the house. All the photos really show is a grey-walled house with hardscape.

Know the house well as I have been driving past it for 20 years or so. It's a huge improvement from then to now. folks commenting on the house when the point is the landscaping......but I will add two cents worth too :).

Bling the garage doors up with a modern aluminum and frosted window type....hit the house with a nice trim paint and the eye can hunt all over the place from house to landscaping too. I would do some night time up lighting as well and I think you go from good to killer cool without too much more money invested.

This area has tons of interesting rummers and yet most still don't really yet shine.

I think it looks great; huge improvement! Too bad the pics are too small to really see all the good stuff that *IS* going on with the house (dark charcoal gray eaves, red door, pop of turquoise to the right of the new tree planted next to the house foundation). I'd love to see an update for spring, summer, and fall color with the plants.

And totally agree that steel/glass paneled garage doors would really make this house pop even more. Not to mention set off the landscaping even more beautifully with a mix of glass, metal AND wood.

Love the mid century rambler/ranch houses -- always look perfect to me. Thank you for sharing this. It's given me some ideas for my own PacNW ranch house (Vashon, WA).

studiod. This is Portland. The grass stays a lush green all winter long with the mild climate and the rain. This grass must be dead. It appears as though the house color remained untouched. The house definitely needs some more defining of the architectural features with a different color of paint, even a subtle difference. No matter what design or who designed any house, garage(s) are rarely if ever attractive.

it's decomposed granite if I had to guess from the pictures, not grass....................

Someone do me a favor: Go back to the re-landscaped house and take a photo from the same spot #1 was done in...then I could really see the difference that has been made! (Would like to see inside the house too but that isn't what this article is about, is it!)

Here is a more recent photo, but still over a year old, and some of the key grass mass plantings are dormant... Thanks for all the feedback folks!

Great midcentury residential design: hunkered down amidst the landscape, but with a noticeable edge. Landscaping (both hard and soft) is beautiful. From street view, grey exterior of home is too closely united to that of asphalt road. I would seriously consider painting exterior a chartreuse shade, i.e., leaning toward more of a hint of yellow-green, but nothing neon in appearance; this choice would tie in beautifully with the foliage (in season, of course) of deciduous trees located behind the house and revealed above the roof line. The exposed roof beams, framing, etc., might well look very attractive with a creamy white colour. The red front door is boffo! The exterior niche, or indentation around the front door could also be painted in the creamy white roof line colour to brighten, and therefore, further highlight the entryway. The thin, full length blue glass window featured on the front facade would look like an even more interesting architectural feature, as it would really "pop" against the complementary chartreuse coloured walls. Overall, this paint scheme would marry the house more fully with its natural and manmade surroundings, providing a good balance between standing out more, yet overall heightening its "good bones" Zen appeal. Hope this gives you some positive food for thought. Cheers!

Here is a mid century modern remodel and re landscape project we just finished in Manhattan Beach California. Keeping it clean and letting the house be the star was the objective. I'll post before and afters so you can see the transformation.