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What to call this tool?
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It's always a good day when your Garden Design quiver gains a new arrow.
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Columns, below, Enlarge the Footprint of the home.
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Often, I use this tool, Enlarge the Footprint of the home, in subdivisions too, where the road is not a concern in the least, but scaling the home properly is.
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Back to the columns, below. Four columns seems a lot. Amazingly, this Garden Design arrow-in-your-quiver will also work if there were only a single column, below.
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Two mental models, below. Place a single column, below, at the right of the lane. The lane becomes 'public property'. Next, place a single column, below, to the left of the lane. The lane is 'private property'.
Pic, above, here.
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Yes, am curious why there are 4 columns, above. Pure ego, drama queen stuff? Oversold by the landscape architect, getting that commission check? Entry to a compound of several homes on acreage? Perhaps those 4 columns are much older than the house, above, and owner of the house decided to keep them all?
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What do the 4 columns, above, say to you?
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Lastly, imagine the home, above, without any columns. Hmm, not so good. Needs at least one column to enlarge its footprint.
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Garden & Be Well, XOT
4 comments:
BEAUTY AWAITS............down this road THAT IS WHAT IT SAYS TO ME!
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I love the columns. They look like they were there before the house. Enlarge the house.
This looks like a Gate House to me: a "modest" dwelling for your gatekeeper/caretaker, fence bracketed by columns on either side of the road, with room for a pair of iron gates across the road. Probably long since abandoned. Love the look and the observations about the extension of the footprint as well as the message of public versus private. On target, I think.
I should have added that if this were a Gate House, the road would continue on to the Manor House beyond. I love seeing these relics in the landscape. They speak to an era of grandeur and civility.
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