For a few months every year we luxuriate in the warmth of that most welcome season: summer. With a reported 300 days of sun a year and high-altitude air, creating stylish outdoor spaces that invite the warmth but repel the burn is top on many homeowners’ landscape lists. Pergolas, patios, covered decks, natural swimming pools, […]
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Outdoor Craftsmen gives sage advice in recent Denver Post article
Outdoor Craftsmen lead designer Chris Holthouser contributed his expertise and advice in a recent article published in The Denver Post. The article Broken sprinkler heads are bad, but you can’t see most problems with irrigation systems sought out experienced landscape professionals to recommend solving the problems with landscape irrigation systems. According to the article and […]
What’s on your outdoor wish list?
Our popular Get Started website page is valuable in helping our clients to think ‘outside’. This comprehensive checklist is a homeowner’s dream in the ideas arena. From terraces to fire features, natural swimming pools with cabanas to greenhouses and putting greens, this handy wish list doesn’t miss a beat in providing imagination in having everything […]
Summer Solstice – the Luxuriously Longest Day of the Year
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck Tuesday June 20th is Summer Solstice – that time of year when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky and those of us in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the first day of Summer. […]
The benefits of a blank slate
Are you sitting on blank canvas for a fresh and modern approach to landscaping and don’t know it? Could a new start for your land be just the thing you need to create natural abundance and coexist peacefully with your land? Starting over is a best possible approach for many tired, overgrown landscapes. Beginning anew […]
The "Big Reveal’
Fans of HGTV home remodel shows know well what comes at the end of each show when, after the blood, sweat, and tears of their dream renovation is complete and the homeowners see the full reno. In less than an hour on renovation television, viewers are intimate with the oftentimes stressful and angst-filled process of […]