This Upper East Side townhouse backyard features a bluestone patio, horizontal ipe fencing, and Art Deco vintage patio furniture. Bluestone makes a wonderful natural patio stone surface, but it stains easily. The best solution is to either seal it or clean it regularly using a bucket of hot, soapy water and a long-handled scrub brush. …
We designed this rooftop deck in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood using a combination of bluestone pavers and ipe, a hardwood with a 30-year life expectancy. Since NYC’s Department of Buildings only allows 20% max of a total roof surface to be covered in wood, combining it with a non-flammable material like bluestone can be the perfect …
This contemporary roof deck in NYC’s TriBeCa neighborhood features wood deck tiles, bamboo roll fencing, fiberglass and ceramic containers for a seamless blend of Asian- contemporary and traditional elements. We installed dark brown bamboo roll fencing in front of an existing ugly metal fence to help camouflage and childproof it. Wood deck tiles are a …
When we first met this client at her backyard in Greenwood, Brooklyn, she showed us a bunch of interesting vintage objects she had brought from her previous home in California. She asked if he could come up with a cohesive design plan that would incorporate all of these elements in a way that felt both …
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Zen Appeal: An Upper West Side Roof Garden that Transcends the Rest This roof garden design New York is located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and features a bamboo screen in black fiberglass planters. Nothing works as well in a shade garden as bamboo to provide an instantaneous effect of lushness, height, and a Zen-like, …
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This Boerum Hill, Brooklyn backyard features a cedar pergola with a tin roof. The owner of this townhouse is a Texas native, and she missed the sound of rain on the tin roofs there, so this design gave her a little comforting reminder of home. The biggest challenge to designing this space was figuring out …
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Imagine hanging out in this roof garden in the middle of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood at night with a group of friends. Illuminated both by the lights of nearby skyscrapers and up-lighting in the planters, this roof garden is quite the urban oasis. It features lightweight aluminum decking, ipe planters, an ipe and metal pergola, and …
We’re often asked to design outdoor common spaces for co-op apartment buildings in New York City. Spaces like this rooftop garden are meant to be enjoyed by multiple groups of people who live in the apartment building at the same time. In this situation, it’s crucial that we create the feeling of separate outdoor rooms …
This backyard for a townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village is made for entertaining and relaxation! Our re-design of the space included artificial turf to replace a failing lawn, updated plantings, overhead string lighting, and new lawn furniture. The existing plantings of boxwoods and birch trees, while healthy, were a little bland and boring looking, so …
We love the night and day transformation this garden took on when our client requested a zen garden for her backyard in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It’s always fun to be asked to design a garden with so many charming creative elements. Our re-design included brown bamboo fencing to cover a very bright white vinyl fence, …
