Nashville, Tennessee
My design experiences are wide-ranging. I lived in New York City and the Hudson Valley for many years. While in the city I designed custom furniture and interiors for multi-national corporations. On the weekends in the Hudson Valley, I restored 19thC houses for myself and for clients. It was also in that beautiful setting that I became interested in the relationship between architecture and the supporting landscape.
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Sculpture Garden 2
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
A landscape designed for sculptures is itself a collection of horticultural sculptures.
Meadowview House
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The stone work is finished on the front. See the moon?
Living Room and vaulted space with raised hearth fireplace.
View of Living Room from the Entry. Horizontal Cypress planking to 10' will help define the rooms.
Entry Gallery
View from the Living Roomtoward the Dining Room, Entry and stairs.
Sculpture Garden 1
Thirty five Japanese maples in two colors help create rooms to showcase the art in this garden.
Cicada netting.
Our cicada protection was as sculptural as the sculptures.
We ordered the netting in February.
Cristo would approve!
Ridgetop House
This new house doesn't really have a "front door", but entering through these gates takes you into the compound.
Entrance Elevation
Entry Loggia
Kitchen/Screened Porch/Pool Areas
Closer View
Hawk's-view of the house
Family Parking/Service Entry
Farmhouse Modern
Guest Driveway
Service/Family Drive
Porte Cochere/Front Door
Family Entrance
Porte cochere and family entry.
Stairhall
Family Room
Landscape
Rear of House
Laurel Ridge House
The plan of this house was started by someone else.
We were brought in to design the details, porches, colors, landscape. The plans were awkward, so we cleaned them up as well.
All of the outdoor areas were designed by us.
A second floor porch off the master bedroom.
The cantilevered porch presented special problems of balance and materials.
The views from The Ridge are beautiful.
West End Townhouse Renovation
It's a Charleston-like alleyway.
Dining Room
We put travertine flooring down on the first floor and sleek new built-ins.
Living Room.
All the first floor rooms have 10 foot ceilings.
Kitchen.
The legs on the island discretely conceal the plumbing and wiring.
The stainless top and sink on the island are integral.
Master Bedroom.
The master bath was small, so we opened the sink up to the bedroom. The mirrored "blade wall" conceals the walk-around shower.
This huge skylight floods the bathroom with light.
The view from the Master Bedroom.
We redid the pool and stonework and added the shade structure with a timbered ceiling.
Golf Club Lane House
Back of house, December 2009.
Main screened porch interior.
Master bedroom screened porch.
Master porch details.
Master porch vaulted ceiling.
Back terrace under construction.
Back of house, December, 2009
Hilltop House
The house is on a very high hill up a driveway with 6 switchbacks and a vertical drop of 500 feet.
The 25m lap pool is seen from every room in the house.
The entrance is through oak gates, along an arched portico, adjacent to the pool.
The front door is mahogany with leaded glass; the stair winds up the tower.
The living room ceiling is cypress.
The plaster hood is the focal point of the kitchen.
There's a fireplace with a raised hearth in the kitchen.
The pantry is also a clean-up ktichen and the laundry.
The minimalist master bath has the shower integrated in the room.
Metamorphosis of a Family Farmhouse, 1820s-2012
Vandalised beyond recognition, this multi-generational homestead is being brought back to life.
North Entrance Front. Siding will start going on soon.
New siding is going on.
Thru many renovations, the house has been the center of this family's life. From log house to Greek Revival to Victorian.
Briefly, the house went through an Italianate phase. This porch may have rotted quickly. The gingerbread followed.
North Front Elevation. Note the log core from it's earliest days.
North Front. Rebuilt windows are in, mouldings faithfully reproduced and porch structures are being rebuilt and levelled.
New siding is going on.
West Elevation, 2009. All possible undamaged parts of the damaged house were saved.
West Elevation. Siding is off and the process of discovering what's under those 150yo walls starts.
Same West Elevation with family gathered, circa 1925.
West Elevation with new connection to the smoke house. This redesign of the connector will be a screened porch.
New siding is going on.
Log detail prior to cleaning up.
More interior log walls showing the furring strips that later beadboard was mounter on.
The house started life in the 1820s as a two-room log homestead. This section of the interior log walls is ready for chinking.
When transformed from log home c.1855, the owners created an elegant Greek Revival farmhouse.
In the third major renovation, Eastlake porches were added to 3 sides of the house.
Windows have been repaired or recreated to match with weights and pulleys. Note the unique rounded casing.
The lap siding is being replaced with a custom cypress. Note the unusual bevel. We are copying it.
Detail of custom siding, casing and window.
Sugartree Renovation
We replaced windows and simplified them, then painted them dark bronze.
The house didn't have a casual family room, so we added onto the back.
The back also got a nice small terrace with limestone details.
The new room transformed the way the owners use the house.
Both seating and dining were included in the new addition.
The wraparound windows give the new room great views of Sugartree Creek.
Garden of Greens
This is one of my prettiest small gardens.
What makes it special is all the green foliage.
It is all about texture.
I have gotten to a point where I don't really care about color.
At least I don't care about color as much as I do about texture.
Ferns, hostas, Solomon's seal, boxwood, epimedium, vines.
The white Annabelle hydrangeas are to show-stoppers.
The new garage is the lower anchor; the screened porch is the upper anchor.
Greens!
Color-filled Eastlake Cottage Garden
Street elevation.
Custom iron fencing, historically appropriate.
Secure, landscaped parking off the alley.
Retaining wall gives visual separation to the cars.
The sound of water.
Custom brickwork and locust fencing.
Bursts of color everywhere!
2008 Antiques & Garden Show ~ Nashville ~ ENTRY GARDEN
Strong and dramatic.
Walking around the garden was like experiencing snapshots of Palladio and Italian gardens.
The design was meant to evoke, not copy.
Sherbie Green's workshop built the structures.
Watching it come together was half of the fun!
The capstone!
Balls.
Ball finials.
Pam Harness and the "Swan Ball Painters" did the faux stone finishes.
Spanish lavender forced by Deborah and Mark Taylor.
Rock Garden
A seasonal streambed wound through the small back garden.
What was a rough bank became a walkable rock garden.
The rock garden overlooks an oval lawn.
Annabelle hydrangeas, perennials and boxwoods surround the lawn.
This is the bridge over the dry creek bed.
The seasonal streambed was trashed and full of rock and branches.
This is the wasteland we started with.
West End Villas
House 1
House 1 enters at street level, then descends to the living room.
House 1 living room looking back toward stairs.
House 1 living room looking toward garden and pool.
House 1 kitchen
House 1 master bath
19thC Moran Road Farmhouse
Original 2-story house with new addtions
New master bedroom wing
New family room wing
New stone chimney on family room
New screened porch
Rear of master wing looking toward kitchen wing
Master bath windows
Hill Place Garden and Pool
The client wanted a stone-lined, natural pool. It is 45' long and freeform.
The house was tall, so we designed an arbor to suit: it is 17 feet tall.
There's lots of color at the front entrance.
From the 8-person spa down a watercourse to the pool and then another watercourse to a koi pond, the feature is 100 feet long.
The watercourse from the spa into the pool.
We designed a dining terrace and arbor away from the house with details to match the main arbor.
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