TARA DILLARD

Charming before/after, below.  Don't know any details about the home, purchased to live in, bought to flip, perhaps a new owner knows th...

If you've been wanting to create the garden of your imagination around your home, or even plantscaping your interior, it's time to t...

The physical of a garden is obvious.  House, meadow, hedge, porch with table/chair/vase, color, form, texture, flow, breeze, sound, temperat...

Get 'the' Garden Design memo, below?  Aside from 'the' memo, what are the bullet points for the memo in macro, not merely mi...

Not-one-bit-extra is an apt motto for my mom.  Poor dear was born into wrong era.  Her brain power seriously under utilized.  Married in the...

Thirty years I lived in this architecture, below.  Looming driveway/garage, wall with large windows, finally, a teeny tiny sliver, and voila...

Met with a client yesterday, we did their backyard 2 years ago, and she needed a quick hour.  Several topics. . Last topic, her small fron...

From forever I've learned best from completed problems, pictures & places.  Copy the best, copy what works, saves time/money. . Si...

Temps & humidity are at their extremes. . Yesterday, after lunching with a friend in town, I had the good fortune of riding shotgun...

Rich in sublime detail I'm curious about the front porch, at the drive way side. Perhaps more shutters between arches?  A ceiling fa...

Bed & Breakfasts speak to myriad layers of design. . Their needs, specific.  They must be inviting, tidy, comfortable, safe, feed a...

My team is installing a flagstone terrace and garden I designed at this home, below. . Home is new construction atop historic foundatio...

Easy knowing they use their front porch, below.  Mosquito repellent sitting at the French doors on the right. . Their front yard is lar...

With some people, years ago, I learned not to share joyous news.  They took delight in diminishing my joy.  Another epiphany, not too long ...

Moving the pots, below, a mere inch wider will make the doorway wider. . Staining the pots the same color as the siding, and moving the...

Tell me again why Americans are so wedded to green meatball foundation plantings. . Proof, below, you can still have those green meatba...

I was hired to 'refresh' the landscape. . Leaving the port cachere as-is was not an option.  This is their main family door.   ...

A bit of vine & gravel to the house. Repeated across continents for centuries. . Affordable to install, inexpensive to mainta...

Ceilings are not high, below.  A transom was over the door.  I removed it and added a taller door & sidelights.  Creating more height...

"Take the rail off", I said.  Friend, not client, we knew the obstacle, husband.  Years passed. Now, below.    Understand intuiti...