Cinder blocks with 2" x 6" boards were typical. Pure, undiluted salvage also. Too stark? Stain your bleachers a faded green ,or some such color, from Benjamin Moore or Farrow & Ball.
too horizontal. Accentuating the many horizontal lines of her home. Contrast was needed. (Of course it didn't hurt that I've studied in Scotland, seeing master templates for dry stone work.)
became famous for its gardens thanks to Christopher Lloyd, below right. He lived his entire life here. 
Fergus Garrett, above, continues, as planned, Great Dixter's garden, now open to the public.
When I saw this garden room, above, at Great Dixter I knew it was the most important garden room I'd ever visited. Almost 2 decades later, it still is.
Succession plantings are the style at Great Dixter. Something new always coming into bloom. Mulch is not needed the plantings are so layered & thick.
Each of Great Dixer's garden rooms is pure opera. But that's too easy. The opera changes daily. Hourly.
You'll be surprised how much FREE stuff you'll get.
Above & below, same line, 2 views, Double Axis.
Creating Double Axis, AND, the still life, below. David expands the world in each detail. 
We know it's beyond simple. It's MAGIC.
From his laptop, above, another axis & more than magic. Grace.
A bedroom view, treated as a painting on the wall.
David, I really do laugh out loud, & learn, seeing your landscapes & gardens. You are ANAL about Vanishing Threshold, Axis, Double Axis. Providence smiles in simplicity & grace within your work. Thank you for sharing your talents. 
Indian artifacts & antiques predating the Civil War, many inherited, fill the entire home.
Every bit of this room, below, new construction.
Only a few feet beyond the window views, above, is a neighbor's home.
Sconces, below, were rescued from an old home. New ones were made to order.
A portion of the home was removed and placed freestanding, below, as a dependency.
are the neighbors, below. 
From a front room view, below, see the brick chimney? It's where this antebellum home was 1st located. As family fortune increased they built a new antebellum home on the same site, moving this home to its current location. 
With a smile & sparkle she proclaimed her home the "first mobile home in Athens, GA."
Feet remain stationary, below,
& shooting a pic in the opposite direction.
Majority rustic antiques with hints of antique crystal & silver, yes, I knew I had to see the rest of this house & garden. More importantly, to know the person behind the magic.
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..."
Just inside the gate, below. 
Piquant surpise, below, look closely, an outdoor shower.
Surprise, a second gate, below. 
A curve, using iron instead of brick & wood amplifying depth in simplicity. 
Hints of an English cottage garden, below.
Double axis with a potager, below, viewed from the frontyard.
Potager, below, viewed from the backyard.
Little details, oozing water ball, abound, below.
There are no wrong notes in this Italianate garden. 
