Designed by Lauren Bloom. A modern landscape design with destination seating areas, porcelain paver paths and segmented concrete.
Photo of a large modern backyard landscaping in Denver.

Clopay Avante Collection glass garage door with black frame on a modern desert home.
Large modern attached two-car exterior home idea in Las Vegas

A house floating on water—or so it seems. Responding to the lakeside site, the building unfolds in four segments connected by footbridges. Pitched roofs of Corten steel hover above walls clad in stacked limestone and reclaimed timber. A Tennessean sanctuary of space and light, as serene as a pagoda, as homey as a ranch.

Mid-century modern living room photo in Los Angeles

Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary partial sun courtyard gravel retaining wall landscape in Sacramento.

Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

A cedar grape arbor shades this segmented brick pathway lined with Hydrangeas.
Photo of a mid-sized rustic drought-tolerant and full sun side yard gravel garden path.

Cambria White Cliff quartz countertops with waterfall end and 3" mitered edge. Digital templates and waterjet cutting were used to get precise radius cut at back and segmented front.

A curved seat wall was added to border the terrace.
Elegant backyard brick patio photo in Chicago

A curved seat wall was added to border the terrace.
This is an example of a traditional backyard brick landscaping in Chicago.

This is an example of a modern landscaping in Salt Lake City.

A buff colored concrete was used as the pool terrace.
Example of a mid-sized classic concrete and rectangular pool design in Chicago

Claw-foot bathtub - transitional master ceramic tile and white floor claw-foot bathtub idea in Dallas with an undermount sink, a hinged shower door, beige cabinets, gray walls, brown countertops and flat-panel cabinets

Example of a trendy kitchen design in DC Metro

Design ideas for a traditional front yard landscaping in Burlington.