European Elegance with Four Season Interest

Instant Makeover: Stunning Seasonal Planters, Containers and Window Boxes
November 27, 2014

European Elegance with Four Season Interest

This home is featured in the May/June 2017 issue of New England Home, "Step Inside a Georgian Manse with Art Deco Style", and on the website http://www.nehomemag.com/a-georgian-manse-with-art-deco-style/  
Our client purchased a classic 1930’s brick Georgian home in Brookline, Mass. and undertook a full home renovation to add living space, repurpose rooms, and create an elegant Art Deco interior. Our landscape design goal for this nearly 2-acre property was to impart the feeling of a mature, European-style formal garden.  
We worked closely with our client to achieve several imperatives including privacy, showcasing the architecture of the home, and integrating a garden design that would provide a continuous show of seasonally blooming shrubs and perennials.  
To achieve the client’s vision, we screened the property with large evergreen trees and shrubs such as Daphnes and many native shrub varieties including Inkberry bushes, Oakleaf Hydrangeas, and Catawba Rhododendrons. Our landscape design featured layered garden beds incorporating several sizes of boxwoods, hydrangeas with varied leaf forms and blooms, along with a continuous display of perennials that bloom in the spring, summer and fall for a three season show.
Landscape Design: Patricia Dunn, Sabrina Design
Interior design: Linda Ruderman, Linda Ruderman Interiors
Architecture: Robert Zarelli, Robert Zarelli Architect
Builder: Charles Howard, Howard Brothers Builders
Landscape architecture: James Emmanuel, James K. Emmanuel Associates