Directly below this deck, pathway to her rescue run. She rescues & fosters dogs.
From this portion of her deck, below,
you can see her wooded frontyard or the backyard & lake.
Client is successful, headstrong, bold, smart, athletic, spiritual, demanding, puckish. 
2 chairs + table; works every time.
Look at color choices in sun & shade, morning, evening, rainy days. 
Beware of colors that are too alive. They steal attention. White is the worst offender. No worries, there are plenty of calm whites.
A color looking (for example) grey/green in shade, and at the same time looking green/blue in sun is fabulous.
French doors, above, are the front of my conservatory & face the back of my home.
My carpenter (now my hero, for this feature alone) set the back windows, above, to open. Notice the outlet above? Chandelier + gravel floor + 3 outlets + 4 walls of windows; what more could a girl (no worries, girl knows when to sling queenly commands) want in less than 200 sq ft? 
My patio, above, in normal life.
My patio, above, today. I can't abide it.
Curtains, above, from my bedroom onto the patio have been closed for weeks. My constitution does not include the strength to see this.
No, materials aren't top of the line, as expected living in a rental home. With a sense of style Chandelier Chick
chose a White Theme. 
Have settled upon a chinoiserie style roof & plenty of French doors. Need a front deck too. Don't want the switchback trail up the slope to enter from the front, want to enter from the side.
Received the first set of drawings, below, from my contractor last night. All he received from me were several pics & about 12' X 18' please.
His creativity in materials has exceeded expectation.
The balance is real, below.
Symmetry, below, only an illusion. Do you see? 
Slow down, look closely, below.
Fake Geometry; looking real. The columns are not symmetrical.
On the patio, without moving my feet, below, looking into the house. A room overlooking: frontyard, sideyard, backyard. 3 walls of windows & a fireplace wall with 2 doors. I doubt there is a smaller, more delicious room.
Incredibly exciting Double Axis. Do you have a Double Axis point like this? Get one. Then, get more!
Posted on La Maison Fou several days ago, this garden room is proof;
Feet remain stationary, below,
& shooting a pic in the opposite direction.
I adored her, & we hadn't met yet.
Intuitively knowing she did the decorating for interior/exterior.
By the time a woman uses Kimberly Queen ferns, she KNOWS what she's about.
Vanishing Theshold, combining home/garden were a given, before I went into her home. I KNEW it.
Sherman, blessedly, didn't burn this antebellum home. Poppets, as Anne Shirley said in Anne of Green Gables, 'There is so much scope for the imagination..."
From inside the Kitchen (& Garden Room), below, EDUCATOR watched a pair of bluebirds build their nest & raise their young this spring.
This simple joy, a huge victory.
I knew she must have a table, wood & old, in this corner. The rest of the covered porch has mostly iron furniture.
She 'got' my Vanishing Threshold, and hired me. Vanishing Threshold brings the outside, inside.
Susan's beautiful, serene dining room, all these pics, is blasted with reflected light off her porch. AND. It's the wrong color. Vanishing Threshold brings the inside, outside.
Soon, her porch (blasting white, above) will be painted the color of her stucco exterior (instead of matching the exterior trim color). Her stucco is similar to the wall color in her dining room.
The porch of a newly discovered B&B?
Is the porch completed or just begun?
In winter a wasteland, above/below.
A few ideas to fix this landscape: evergreen shrub/s, evergreen groundcover/s, hydrangeas, espalier evergreen shrub at blank wall, keep & rearrange perennials, bench (need the curve of a Giverny bench)at base of espalier evergreen shrub with flagstone leading to it, stain board under rail same color as shutters, use a darker shade of white on trim/rails/posts/windows creating sense of space, climber up corner post & along top of porch. Treat entire space like a window box. Prepare the soil and pack your goodies in. (Note: Cheaper than annuals, above, less maintenance, & pretty all year.)
Her garden, below, as well considered as her closet.
Her quince, above/below, last Friday. 
And the same quince, above, from her porch.
A new owner, above, in this youngish neighborhood.
Though youngish the neighborhood looks OLD. Why? 
Recently sold, its estate sale is on now. Multi-colored marble, below.
Iron security gating INSIDE the mansion, below.
loaded with trinkets, the good stuff was leaving in several trucks as I arrived. 
In the garden, above, a mailbox post completely grown thru a tree. 
