LANDSCAPE  DESIGN/BUILD
B E F O R E  &  A F T E R
No formal entrance, front porch closed off. 
  New steps/formal entrance added, front porch opened and steps added.

Yikes.
Stone veneer added, timber bamboo to bring down the height, bamboo veneer added to garage doors.
Small home with bad front yard and no privacy.
Private courtyard created with walls and planting, and locking gate.
Undefined patio, hot sun all day. Never used it.

Pergola added with seatwalls and columns. Wood is spaced closely for more shade. Patio is now an outdoor room, house stays cooler.
Blank garage wall at the pool is a drag.
Built-in tile bench and trellis added for a place to sit as well as architectural definition.
A dead backyard. Their backs were turned to it.
Can't blame them.
A stone patio, seatwall, water feature, tree and grass made it a nice place to hang out.
And the chairs face the yard now.
No real entrance on this mid-century home.
Triple-trunk Queen palms brought in, new walk way matching existing.Guests are now welcome.
Crowded, uninviting space. They never used it.
New BBQ, concrete deck, coping, pool tile and plaster. Space is now organized with seatwall and fire pit.
Crowded, no definition.
A larger, new paver surface makes for plenty of room, built-in BBQ added with a pizza oven, pergola added to provide shade and it defines the patio as an outdoor room.
Dated, unusable and hurting the property value.
Walls built to level it out, creating usable grass area. Junipers removed, benches added.