Nestled on a corner lot in Birmingham, Alabama’s verdant Edgewood neighborhood, this home prompts a double take.

This family needed to mix the practicality of hosting a husband’s large Italian family, and the customs that surround that with a wife’s intimate love of gardening.

Attempting to provide privacy, usability , and comfort, this home has now become a central location for entertaining — something that was a never before imagined.

There is perhaps nothing more charming than an elegant old home in a historic Southern neighborhood. Our mission was to make this home modern-day livable while keeping the spirit of its historic personality.

We were tasked with taking a small backyard which the home builders had previously filled with grass and turning it into an inviting space—one in which they wanted to spend every evening.

Our client renovated a turn of the century home into a modern statement and needed a landscape to complement the architecture they enjoy.

This waterfront backyard hones in succinctly on the minimalism and bare concrete which romanticize a brutalist backyard masterpiece replete with modern conveniences like the outdoor kitchen and inviting hot tub.

Instead of purchasing a second home, the client decided to create a vacation destination right in their own back yard. When the project was finished, the family had a whole new world waiting just outside their door.

A vast, previously unlivable yard was transformed by more than just landscape design, but by a relationship. What resulted were lush, deeply personal spaces genuinely reflecting the family who dwells in them.