Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home (Susanka)

In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. After all, who doesn't yearn for a landscape that is as well designed as the interior of their home? In "Outside the Not So Big House," Julie and Sarah teach you everything you need to know about the design concepts essential to extending your home beyond its four walls. Lushly photographed and illustrated with vivid drawings, "Outside the Not So Big House" explores how to build pathways and journeys in your gardens; how to make the most of your site; how to use details to bring it all together. Twenty homes from across the country aptly illustrate these easy-to-grasp design ideas. Fans of Sarah's previous Not So Big books will be pleased to discover not only Julie's clear, concise prose but also a new vision for creating home. Expanding home to include your outdoor spaces.

This book is not about landscaping or gardening. It’s about the transitions and connections between the inside of a house and the outside, and about the journeys and the places that can be made to extend the experience of home to the outside. Just as the inside of a house is a sequence of places for the experiences of daily life, so the outside continues this sequence. And the paths and places along the way, whether inside, outside, or in the in-between zone, are together what we call Home. Whatever the size of your property, the ideas contained herein will help to make your house and garden two parts of a singular whole.

A Companion Volume To Inside The Not So Big House Explains How To Create A Seamless Transition Between Indoor Space And Outdoor Living Through A Consideration Of The Building In Relation To The Surrounding Land And The Development Of A Landscape Design That Links The Inside And Outside. 75,000 First Printing. Offers a source of design advice about making the indoors and outdoors work together. This title teaches us how to think in a new way about designing our outdoor spaces - so they are in keeping with our interior ones. It gives language to design concepts that unify home and landscape.