Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home

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Author: Julie Moir Messervy

ISBN-10: 1600850200

ISBN-13: 9781600850202

Category: Gardening - General & Miscellaneous

Expanding home to include your outdoor spaces.\ This book is not about landscaping or gardening. It’s about the transitions and connections between the inside of a house and the outside, and about the journeys and the places that can be made to extend the experience of home to the outside. Just as the inside of a house is a sequence of places for the experiences of daily life, so the outside continues this sequence. And the paths and places along the way, whether inside, outside, or in the...

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Extending the original principles from her book "The Not So Big House," award-winning landscape designer Sarah Susanka joins forces with noted landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy to offer innovative designs that promote unifying home and landscape. 290 full-color photos. 30 drawings.

Introduction: The Landscape of HomeSite: Embracing The Habitat of HomePlaying Up the CornersBorrowing the LandscapeThe Attraction of OppositesA Stream of One's OwnShelter and EmbraceFlow: Composing JourneysVariations on a ThemeJapanese JourneyParallel PathsThe Territory of HomeThe World Behind the WallsFrames: Linking the Inside With the OutLiving Lightly on the LandEasy LivingA Landscape of StoneGood FencesRooms Inside and OutDetails: Crafting the Elements of NatureGarden of Earthly DelightsThree Cabins in a ForestAt Home on the RangeTerraces of GrassA Cottage in the CityArchitects & Landscape Designers