Nathaniel Polta
Trendy foyer photo in Los Angeles with white walls and a black front door

Contemporary white two-story stone flat roof idea in Los Angeles

Contractor: Joseph McKinstry Construction; Interior Design: Jan Holbrook; Photo: Benjamin Benschneider
Trendy glass open staircase photo in Seattle

Vista Estate Imaging
Design ideas for a large farmhouse stone water fountain landscape in Seattle.

---Landscape Design and Photography by: Marco Romani, RLA. ---Construction/Installation by: www.thearrowshop.com
Design ideas for a small traditional partial sun backyard brick vegetable garden landscape in Chicago.

Dusk provides even more enchantment as the landscape lighting performs "magic after hours". Lighting design by Kevin Manning.
Inspiration for a traditional shade backyard stone garden path in Chicago for summer.

The Sennett Residence in Asheville, NC boasts a striking midcentury modern exterior crafted by Living Stone Design + Build. Featuring clean lines, expansive glass windows, and natural materials like stone and wood, this home seamlessly merges modern luxury with the surrounding mountain landscape for an elegant and sustainable design.

Inspiration for a large coastal backyard stone and rectangular lap pool house remodel in Boston

Minimalist pool photo in San Francisco

This Kohlmark home leant itself perfectly to lighting.
Inspiration for a large craftsman attached one-car garage remodel in DC Metro

James Brady Photography
This is an example of a contemporary side yard landscaping in San Diego.

Natural cedar 5x5 raised beds are rugged, rot-resistent, and attractive. They reduce the need to bend over and make great seats while working in your garden, too. Also, note the fully-protected berry enclosure in the background--perfect for securing your highly desirable crops from over-eager animals.

Judy Turner
Example of a small classic freestanding desk concrete floor and black floor home studio design in Tampa with no fireplace and white walls

Ward Jewell, AIA was asked to design a comfortable one-story stone and wood pool house that was "barn-like" in keeping with the owner’s gentleman farmer concept. Thus, Mr. Jewell was inspired to create an elegant New England Stone Farm House designed to provide an exceptional environment for them to live, entertain, cook and swim in the large reflection lap pool. Mr. Jewell envisioned a dramatic vaulted great room with hand selected 200 year old reclaimed wood beams and 10 foot tall pocketing French doors that would connect the house to a pool, deck areas, loggia and lush garden spaces, thus bringing the outdoors in. A large cupola “lantern clerestory” in the main vaulted ceiling casts a natural warm light over the graceful room below. The rustic walk-in stone fireplace provides a central focal point for the inviting living room lounge. Important to the functionality of the pool house are a chef’s working farm kitchen with open cabinetry, free-standing stove and a soapstone topped central island with bar height seating. Grey washed barn doors glide open to reveal a vaulted and beamed quilting room with full bath and a vaulted and beamed library/guest room with full bath that bookend the main space. The private garden expanded and evolved over time. After purchasing two adjacent lots, the owners decided to redesign the garden and unify it by eliminating the tennis court, relocating the pool and building an inspired "barn". The concept behind the garden’s new design came from Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello with its wandering paths, orchards, and experimental vegetable garden. As a result this small organic farm, was born. Today the farm produces more than fifty varieties of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers; many of which are rare and hard to find locally. The farm also grows a wide variety of fruits including plums, pluots, nectarines, apricots, apples, figs, peaches, guavas, avocados (Haas, Fuerte and Reed), olives, pomegranates, persimmons, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and ten different types of citrus. The remaining areas consist of drought-tolerant sweeps of rosemary, lavender, rockrose, and sage all of which attract butterflies and dueling hummingbirds. Photo Credit: Laura Hull Photography. Interior Design: Jeffrey Hitchcock. Landscape Design: Laurie Lewis Design. General Contractor: Martin Perry Premier General Contractors

Mark Boisclair
Inspiration for a mid-sized southwestern backyard stone and custom-shaped infinity pool fountain remodel in Phoenix

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Photo of a large farmhouse full sun side yard stone formal garden in DC Metro for summer.

Roger Wade
Example of a mountain style two-story wood gable roof design

Example of a huge trendy exterior home design in Denver

Photography By Joe Dodd
Design ideas for a large contemporary backyard gravel raised garden bed in San Francisco.