Inspiration for a large traditional full sun front yard concrete paver and wood fence formal garden in New York with a pergola for spring.

Brown floor living room photo with beige walls and no fireplace

New Construction for a young family with traditional American and Japanese backgrounds. Photo Credits: David Stansbury
Example of a dining room design in Boston with green walls

Photo: Caela McKeever © 2015 Houzz
Photo of an asian landscaping in Seattle.

Terry Wyllie
Inspiration for a large zen gray one-story concrete fiberboard house exterior remodel in Richmond with a shed roof

The master bedroom closets are behind shoji panel doors. The hanging light fixture was created using a rustic woven reed fish trap. Dennis Anderson
Example of a zen reach-in closet design in San Francisco

Example of a large asian enclosed bamboo floor living room design in New York with white walls, no fireplace and no tv

Bathroom - modern bathroom idea in Charleston

Example of a mid-sized transitional freestanding desk dark wood floor and brown floor study room design in New York with beige walls and no fireplace

Paul Heller
Example of a mid-sized arts and crafts green two-story mixed siding gable roof design in Denver

A formidable pallet of Asian style plant species along with traditional bamboo construction and meandering stone and gravel pathways.
Inspiration for an asian landscaping in San Francisco.

Modern Japanese Room Alcove (Tokonoma) with Black Polished Concrete by Concrete-Visions LLC. www.concrete-visions.com *Displayed Artwork: Oil Painting by Kumiko S. McKee www.kumiko-art.com *Floor - Japanese Tatami Mats. *Doors - Shoji Sliding Door. 〜 Zen Design

Inspiration for a small contemporary mixed siding landscaping in Houston.

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A pair of world travelers with a deep love of Japan asked JMMDS to design a Japanese-inspired landscape that would complement the contemporary renovation of their home in Edinburgh, Scotland. JMMDS created a plan that included a handsome cut-stone patio, meandering stepping stone paths, sweeping bed lines, stony mounds, a grassy pool of space, and swaths of elegant plantings. JMMDS was on site during the installation to craft the mounds and place the plants and stones. Julie Moir Messervy set out the ancient pieces of gneiss from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. With the planting design, JMMDS sought to evoke the feeling of a traditional Japanese garden using locally suitable plants. The designers and clients visited nurseries in search of distinctive plant specimens, including cloud-pruned hollies, craggy pines, Japanese maples of varied color and habit, and a particularly notable Japanese snowbell tree. Beneath these, they laid drifts of sedges, hellebores, European gingers, ferns, and Solomon’s Seal. Evergreen azaleas, juniper, rhododendrons, and hebe were clustered around the lawn. JMMDS placed bamboos within root-controlled patio beds and planted mondo grass, sedums, and mosses among the stepping stones. Project designers: Julie Moir Messervy, Principal; Erica Bowman, Senior Landscape Architect Collaborators: Helen Lucas Architects, Steven Ogilvie (garden installers) Photography: Angus Bremner

Saturday June 20, 10:00 to 11:30am | Manhattan Midtown Sky Garden by Hank White, FASLA, and Aaron Booher of HMWhite This excursion to a spectacular workplace landscape will take visitors up high above the busy streets of Manhattan. The award-winning, 6,500 square-foot terrace of the Midtown Manhattan Sky Garden takes advantage of panoramic skyline views while providing an intimate garden backdrop to the mid-century-modern building’s newly-renovated interior workspace. Richly textured and seasonally diverse plantings include a dense blanket of drought-tolerant prairie grasses, wildflower perennials, and spring flowering bulbs, punctuated by flowering Crab Apple trees. At twilight, the garden evolves into a subtle stage set of textured plantings, rustling softly against the glow of a frosted glass parapet rail—a soothing space where workers can escape the conference room or the electrifying noise of the dense urban environment. The roof garden’s biophilic design has elevated employees’ well-being, productivity, and morale. Photo copyright Amy Stroud

Photo of a mid-sized asian partial sun backyard concrete paver formal garden in San Francisco.

Small elegant gray one-story mixed siding gable roof photo in Charleston

This home office includes a wooden ceiling made of Western red cedar, walls covered with Japanese "mud" plaster (juraku), an alcove for placing art work (tokonoma), tatami-mat floor, shoji window screens, a bamboo latticed window (shitaji mado), and a low table that can be hydraulically raised up and down. When the table is lowered into the floor, it is covered with a tatami mat, providing more space and options for use of the room..