View of Great Room/Living Room and Entertainment Center: 41 West Coastal Retreat Series reveals creative, fresh ideas, for a new look to define the casual beach lifestyle of Naples. More than a dozen custom variations and sizes are available to be built on your lot. From this spacious 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom model, to larger 4 and 5 bedroom versions ranging from 3,500 - 10,000 square feet, including guest house options.

In 2003, we received a call from John and Jennifer Randall of West Houston. They had decided to build a French-style home just off of Piney Point near Memorial Drive. Jennifer wanted a modern French landscape design that reflected the symmetry, balance, and patterns of Old World estates. French landscapes like this are popular because of their uniquely proportioned partier gardens, formal garden and constructions, and tightly clipped hedges. John also wanted the French landscape design because of his passion for his heritage (he originally came to Houston from Louisiana), as well as the obvious aesthetic benefits of creating a natural complement to the architecture of the new house. The first thing we designed was a motor court driveway/parking area in the front of the home. While you may not think that a paved element would have anything at all do with landscape design, in reality it is truly apropos to the theme. French homes almost always have paving that extends all the way to the house. In the case of the Randall home, we used interlocking concrete pavers to create a surface that looks much older than it really is. This prevented the property from looking too much like a new construction and better lent itself to the elegance and stateliness characteristic of French landscape designs in general. Further blending of practical function with the aesthetic elements of French landscaping was accomplished in an area to the left of the driveway. John loved fishing, and he requested that we design a convenient parking area to temporarily store his boat while he waited for a slip at the marina to become available. Knowing that this area would function only for temporary storage, we came up with the idea of integrating this special parking area into the green space of a parterre garden. We laid down a graveled area in the shape of a horseshoe that would easily allow John back up his truck and unload his boat. We then surrounded this graveled area with a scalloped hedge characterized by a very bright, light green color. Planting boxwoods and Holly trees beyond the hedge, we then extended them throughout the yard. This created a contrast of light and green ground cover that is characteristic of French landscape designs. By establishing alternating light and dark shades of color, it helps establish an unconscious sense of movement which the eye finds it hard to resist following Parterre gardens like this are also keynote elements to French landscape designs, and the combination of such a green space with the functional element of a paved area serves to elevate the mundane purpose of a temporary parking and storage area into an aesthetic in its own right. Also, we deliberately chose the horseshoe design because we knew this space could later be transformed into a decorative center for the entire garden. This is the main reason we used small stones to cover the area, rather than concrete or pavers. When the boat was eventually relocated, the darkly colored stones surrounded by a brightly colored hedge gave us an excellent place to mount an outdoor sculpture. The elegance of the home and surrounding French landscape design warranted attention at all hours so we contracted a lighting design company to ensure that all important elements of the house and property were fully visible at night. With mercury vapor lights concealed in trees, we created artificial moonlight that shone down on the garden and front porch. For accent lighting, we used a combination of up lights and down lights to differentiate architectural features, and we installed façade lights to emphasize the face of the home itself. Although a new construction, this residence achieved such an aura of stateliness that it earned fame throughout the neighborhood almost overnight, and it remains a favorite in the Piney Point area to this day. For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds has specialized in servicing many of Houston's fine neighborhoods.

Glencoe Residence Landscape. Brick Paver Driveway with Bluestone Motorcourt Border, Radiant Snow Melt Heat System, French Inspired Formal Entrance Landscape, Low Voltage Lighting, and Irrigation. Entire property Constructed by: Arrow. Designed by: Marco Romani, RLA - Landscape Architect.

41 West Coastal Retreat Series reveals creative, fresh ideas, for a new look to define the casual beach lifestyle of Naples. More than a dozen custom variations and sizes are available to be built on your lot. From this spacious 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom model, to larger 4 and 5 bedroom versions ranging from 3,500 - 10,000 square feet, including guest house options.

The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

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Clean lines infused with British West Indies. Photography by: Rod Urdaneta
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The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

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The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

Clean lines infused with British West Indies. Photography by: Rod Urdaneta
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Clean lines infused with British West Indies. Photography by: Rod Urdaneta
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Front Entry: 41 West Coastal Retreat Series reveals creative, fresh ideas, for a new look to define the casual beach lifestyle of Naples. More than a dozen custom variations and sizes are available to be built on your lot. From this spacious 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom model, to larger 4 and 5 bedroom versions ranging from 3,500 - 10,000 square feet, including guest house options.

The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.

The idea behind this home was to create a true to style british west indies home with a clean contemporary feel on the interior. We worked closely with Cliff Scholz on the design of the home and incorporated details we saw in traditional examples of this architecture. All soffits around the home are western red cedar with western red cedar rafter tails. The floor is walnut. All outlets are placed in baseboards. The Marvin windows and doors have transoms above. The living room features a toungu and groove wood cieling. There is an outdoor living room complete with fireplace and TV. There is a suite that is seperated from the main house by the outdoor living room for guest privacy, or , if used as an office a place to get away from things happening in the main house.