LOOKING FOR ADVICE: The property owners approached Owen Landscape Architect to help them site a swimming pool and cabana on their property located near Ravenna. The property slopes away from the house towards a pond, and they couldn’t decide if the pool was to be on flat land, or built into the slope. STARTING FROM
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Perched high on the Escarpment with sweeping views of Georgian Bay, this expansive 100’ x 25’ deck offered multiple outdoor living zones – spa and sauna, lounging, dining, and a fire bowl seating area – but lacked definition, reading as one long open space.
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The trend in today’s landscaping is for outdoor spaces to have all the amenities you find inside the home: full-blown kitchens complete with pizza ovens, grills, and smokers, and enclosed or covered seating areas complete with fire features and entertainment systems that can be used in the shoulder seasons! These sophisticated architectural spaces cannot be
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Design elements align across the full width of the property. The raised fully tiled pool is a gleaming gem within the space! “Before” – Scroll ahead to see the Tranformation! A view looking from above at a backyard with a garage, children’s play structure. A relatively small backyard, with a large oak tree in the middle – not
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Once the homeowners wishes have been conveyed, and the site inventory done – the design “envisioning” can begin. Such as is the case with this Islington backyard, Owen Landscape Architect can develop the design beyond a rough concept to a fully developed “Detailed” conceptual design. “Before” – A Blank Slate to Work With! As the
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The Merits of Hiring a Landscape Architect
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This corner lot property is in a leafy neighborhood in the west end of Toronto nestled next to the Humber River south of Bloor Street. The homeowners had 3 main objectives: Revamp the long narrow space along the back of the house where they have their outdoor dining table with modern paving. Replace the existing seating
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Located in a private enclave of executive homes between Governors Road and the Brick Works. Note: the lots are not deep so the homes opposite are quite close. “Before” – a blank slate to work with! The homeowners had given a lot of thought to their backyard space and provided Owen Landscape Architects with a
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“Low maintenance” and “extending the seasons” are the main themes for this outdoor living space in a small yard in the area tucked between Rosedale and Yorkville in the City of Toronto. The roughly 25 X 25-foot backyard, bounded by the side fences and the back side of the laneway garage is not a large
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I’ve prepared many, many landscape plans for clients over the years, but (oddly enough) – not with detailed plantings. For me, of all the various components of a design: conceptual; grading; lighting; materials – planting design is the most time consuming – and the most rewarding. If you have ever flipped through a nursery catalogue
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A garden cannot exist on plants alone; even in nature there are anchoring elements: rock outcroppings…..a creek bed. Having a “framework” is essential – the backbone of the garden, these being elements such as: borders, walls; screens; fountains; pergolas at so on. This is SPACE. The TIME aspect is multidimensional: the 4 seasons, and, the
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LORA BAY THE ART OF OUTDOOR LIVING SPACE DESIGN Owen Landscape Architect took an existing generic backyard landscape and utterly transformed it into an amazing outdoor living space using an architectural approach. Although a relatively small space, Peter Owen had a strong vision to fit within the space all of the client’s wish list: an
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