A Hunts Point Garden
Seattle Landscape Architect and Garden Designer Brooks Kolb was
asked to design a more usable family living space for this
hillside back garden in Hunts Point.
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A Laurelhurst Hillside Garden
For this hillside view garden in Laurelhurst, Seattle Landscape
Architect and Garden Designer Brooks Kolb faced a unique design
challenge: how do you descend a steep hill gracefully?
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A Matthews Beach
Garden
Nestled between the Burke Gilman Trail and Lake Washington,
this modern house by Johnston Architects is actually an
extensive remodel occupying a tight waterfront lot.
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A Pike's Peak Garden - Bellevue, Washington
Located on a three-acre, sloping site bordered by tall Lombardy
Poplar trees, this large estate in the Pike's Peak neighborhood
of Bellevue takes advantage of its forested, nearly rural
surroundings. A sense of refuge and privacy provides a haven
for...
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A North Capitol Hill Garden
Designed by Talley & Kolb, this garden on north Capitol Hill
surrounds a large New England-style house set so far back on a
flat corner lot that...
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A Montlake Garden
Located near the Seattle Yacht Club, this garden for a graceful
brick Tudor home maximizes the usability of every square foot of
available space...
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A Wedgwood Garden
The design of this Wedgwood garden started with prudent site
selection. When the clients, a couple newly transplanted from
Palo Alto...
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A Windermere Garden
Located on a unique lot having two street frontages, with its
front door facing a main road and its garage facing an adjoining
cul-de-sac, this Windermere residence has two driveways...
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Three Laurelhurst Gardens
Located within a few short blocks of each other in Laurelhurst
and completed in 2005-2006, these three small and fairly level
front gardens by Seattle landscape architect Brooks Kolb have
two major programmatic elements in common; otherwise, they could
not be more different. What all three have in common is that
they reclaim the front yard for private and intimate family
living and they each incorporate a small water feature. At each
site, the back yard was less suitable for family use, but for
different reasons. Click on the following links for more
details.
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A Finn Hill Meadows Garden -
Kirkland, Washington
High on the slopes above Kirkland's Juanita Bay lies a
unique neighborhood of circular lots bordered by a zigzag
pattern of split-rail fences: Finn Hill Meadows, which was
originally platted by Architect Paul Kirk in the 1950's. In the
spaces between the lots, meadow grasses in commonly-owned horse
pasture and orchard grow...
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A Sandpoint Country Club Garden - Seattle,
Washington
Located on the western edge of the Sandpoint Country Club in
Seattle, this low, ranch-style home encompasses two
distinctly different landscapes linked visually by a
see-through entry hall: a front garden facing a residential
street and a back garden opening onto the expansive lawns...
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A Broadmoor Garden
Composed of a tranquil pond with water lilies and a gurgling
fountain, backed by a dense semi-circular Yew hedge, this
formal English garden provides a pleasing vista from a
prominent living room window...
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North Broadmoor Garden
Seattle Landscape Architect Brooks Kolb was hired by the owner
to transform an automobile-dominated front yard into a
usable, pedestrian-friendly entry garden and to create
private terraces for a formal water feature and hot tub
in the back...
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A Denny Blaine Garden - Seattle, Washington
Inspired by the formal gardens of Colonial Williamsburg,
Virginia, this "L"-shaped garden on a hilly site in the
Denny Blaine neighborhood takes advantage of...
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Fences
Fences can be as individual as clients and the landforms of
the properties they own. The purpose of a fence...
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Fountains & Pools
What can enhance the garden experience more than the
look and sound of water? If you have your heart set on including
a water feature in your garden...
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A Blue Ridge Garden
This garden in the Blue Ridge neighborhood of northwest
Seattle is really two distinctly different gardens.
Adjoining a classic Italianate loggia and the simple brick faade
of the house, the front garden is an elegant...
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An East Lake Sammamish Garden
Located on a sizable hilly acreage high above Lake Sammamish,
this front courtyard garden centers on a formal circular
autocourt and features a stunning waterfall built into a
steep slope. Since the back side of the house embraces a
generous veranda overlooking panoramic views...
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