Greenwood Heights Backyard: Summer 2008
August 21, 2008
Three Options, One Way to Go.
A few days after signing on with Fun City Design (Fun City Design's website), Diana came over to take measurements (for size and grade), photos, pick up a copy of our recent land survey (pre-new building going up) as well as chatting further about our ideas and hers.
One week later we had our third meeting and we were presented with three design ideas. All of them reused our plants and some materials, reduced the "concrete" by making the patio smaller and adding more permeable materials, such as a blue stone seating area and pea gravel paths. All had a very prominent use of bamboo to enhance the space, add privacy and hide a bit of that 40 ft. brick wall. Source images of different bamboo plantings, water elements (again, reuse of some of our field stone/glacial stone) and different types of hardscaping, including the possibility of bamboo & cedar partitions or fencing. (Note: descriptions of the designs are our "interpretations" of the overall presentation)
Above: original site plan of backyard (UPDATED: the area we're working with is approx. 20X60 ft.).
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