We created this office in an exclusive home in the Lansdowne community located near Leesburg Virginia. This room is right off of the main entrance. Everything was changed starting with the hard wood floor color. We added custom ceiling quarter sawn oak beams and the ceiling chandelier after having the room painted a soft grey. Later the new desk and chair anchor the room which can later convert to a temporary guest suite because the tufted back sleeper sofa. The semi-custom cabinetry houses a printer, office supplies, and cool colored LED under counter lighting. Pierrjei.com

Buddleia x Flutterby Petite Blue Heaven starts blooming late spring and continues through mid-fall. Its smaller size makes it easy to find room in the garden for it. Behind are spiraea, Little Lime hydrangea and sedum just starting to color up.

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Kitchen - large coastal kitchen idea in Orange County

Photography by: Mark Lohman Styled by: Sunday Hendrickson
Small country light wood floor and brown floor sunroom photo in Little Rock with a standard ceiling and no fireplace

Photos by Lori Cannava
Trendy patio photo in New York with no cover

An exterior view showing the blend of building materials on this rustic hybrid home in northwestern Wisconsin. This project was started late 2015 and will be completed early spring 2016 just in time for the summer to kick off at the lake.

The buds of magnolia start to open even when late winter snows exist
Example of an eclectic home design design in New York

Urban home bar photo in Atlanta

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Large trendy wooden curved open staircase photo in Singapore

Designer: Allen Construction General Contractor: Allen Construction Photographer: Jim Bartsch Photography
1960s one-story glass exterior home idea in Los Angeles

Puncturing the classic wood shingle roof, the rusticated chimneys are constructed on local Connecticut fieldstone.
Huge elegant blue three-story mixed siding house exterior photo with a hip roof and a shingle roof

When you open the back doors of the home of Nancy and Jeremy Campbell in Granville, you don’t just step out onto a patio. You enter an extension of a modern living space that just happens to be outdoors. Their patio’s unique design and setting provides the comfort and style of indoors while enjoying the natural beauty and fresh air of outdoors. It all started with a rather desolate back yard. “It was completely blank, there was nothing back there,” Nancy remembers of the patio space of this 1972 split-level house they bought five years ago. With a blank slate to work with, the Campbells knew the key elements of what they wanted for their new outdoor space when they sat down with Travis Ketron of Ketron Custom Builders to design it. “We knew we wanted something covered so we could use it in the rain, and in the winter, and we knew we wanted a stone fireplace,” Nancy recalls. Travis translated the Campbells’ vision into a design to satisfy outdoor entertaining and relaxing desires in all seasons. The new outdoor space is reminiscent of a vast, rustic great room complete with a stone fireplace, a vaulted ceiling, skylights, and ceiling fans, yet no walls. The space is completely open to the elements without any glass or doors on any of the sides, except from the house. Furnished like a great room, with a built-in music system as well, it’s truly an extension of indoor living and entertaining space, and one that is unaffected by rain. Jeremy comments, “We haven’t had to cover the furniture yet. It would have to be a pretty strong wind to get wet.” Just outside the covered patio is a quartet of outdoor chairs adorned with plush cushions and colorful pillows, positioned perfectly for users to bask in the sun. In the design process, the fireplace emerged as the anchor of the space and set the stage for the outdoor space both aesthetically and functionally. “We didn’t want it to block the view. Then designing the space with Travis, the fireplace became the center,” remembers Jeremy. Placed directly across from the two sets of French doors leading out from the house, a Rumford fireplace and extended hearth of stone in neutral earth tones is the focal point of this outdoor living room. Seating for entertaining and lounging falls easily into place around it providing optimal viewing of the private, wooded back yard. When temperatures cool off, the fireplace provides ample warmth and a cozy setting to experience the change of seasons. “It’s a great fireplace for the space,” Jeremy says of the unique design of a Rumford style fireplace. “The way you stack the wood in the fireplace is different so as to get more heat. It has a shallower box, burns hotter and puts off more heat. Wood is placed in it vertically, not stacked.” Just in case the fireplace doesn’t provide enough light for late-night soirees, there is additional outdoor lighting mounted from the ceiling to make sure the party always goes on. Travis brought the idea of the Rumford outdoor fireplace to the Campbells. “I learned about it a few years back from some masons, and I was intrigued by the idea then,” he says. “We like to do stuff that’s out of the norm, and this fireplace fits the space and function very well.” Travis adds, “People want unique things that are designed for them. That’s our style to do that for them.” The patio also extends out to an uncovered area set up with patio tables for grilling and dining. Gray pavers flow throughout from the covered space to the open-air area. Their continuous flow mimics the feel of flooring that extends from a living room into a dining room inside a home. Also, the earth tone colors throughout the space on the pavers, fireplace and furnishings help the entire space mesh nicely with its natural surroundings. A little ways off from both the covered and uncovered patio area is a stone fire pit ring. Removed by just the right distance, it provides a separate place for young adults to gather and enjoy the night. Adirondack chairs and matching tables surround the outdoor fire pit, offering seating for anyone who doesn’t wish to stand and a place to set down ingredients for yummy fireside treats like s’mores. Padded chairs outside the reach of the pavilion and the nearby umbrella the perfect place to kick back and relax in the sun. The colorful throw pillows and outdoor furniture cushions add some needed color and a touch of personality. Enjoying the comforts of indoors while being outdoors is exactly what the Campbells are doing now, particularly when lounging on the comfortable wicker furniture that dominate most of the area. “My favorite part of the whole thing is the fireplace,” Nancy says. Jeremy concludes, “There is no television, it would destroy the ambiance out there. We just enjoy listening to music and watching the fire.”

This is an example of a coastal landscaping in New York.

Plants are all installed and the Flag markers are for the planting of about 1,000 Spring bulbs done in late fall. The multiple types of bulbs will have successional blooming starting in late winter stating with crocus and ending with the late spring Alliums filling the time until the perennials start to bloom in May/June.

A place for a family to be together. they had a fireplace but by the time diner was over and the children in bed it was too late to start a fire so we used the wood stove to join the kitchen and living room and the stove draws people to the family space.

Inspiration for a contemporary bedroom remodel in Boston with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a brick fireplace

Cushion moss, Ivory Prince Lenten Rose and Western Sword fern
Inspiration for a small traditional shade backyard landscaping in New York for spring.

Broadleaf stonecrop / Sedum Spathulifolium

A long view of the gorgeous pool, including the specialized starting block for the client to practice on. This photo also gives the viewer and expansive picture of the entirety of the landscape scope of work as it gently weaves together in the late afternoon glow.