When a client hires me for the garden, if needed & it's within my scope, I design interior spaces too. What does that mean? I know my scope. Outside, my scope has no restrictions. Inside, my scope is sourced off-the-shelf, antique shops, thrift stores. Inside, if special order stone, textiles, furnishings, removing/adding walls, are the playing field, I have an incredible interior decorator on my team.
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Yesterday's jobsite, 60 of the most beautiful acres, streams, meadows, woodlands, gracious sloping views, in the last of the Piedmont before turning into Coastal Plain, are not a challenge in the least to Garden Design. Thorn on the acreage? The house. A ca. 1980's ode the Bee Gee's named aptly, Stayin Alive. Who wants to merely stay alive? Thriving is the choice.
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Working with the interior decorator on this project and the homeowner has been quite a team. There was an obvious wall removed inside, then magic, the interior decorator added a wall to an area I would have never 'seen', yet once designed, of-course-the-wall-must-be-added. In return, I knew the front porch had to wrap the house, creating a new heart to the home. Interior decorator never 'saw' wrapping the porch. Indeed, we are a happy team of cheerleaders for each other. In addition to giving/teaching each other a new 'eye'.
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Drawing, above, sums up having a home. Vanishing threshold. House & Garden.
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Garden & Be Well, XO T
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Pic, above, drawn by John Tackett.
2 comments:
So intrigued to see more of Staying Alive's transformation, inside and out! And your Vanishing Threshold is my most favorite label!
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