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Home Flower Gardens and Flower Landscape Pictures

Red tulips and lavender forming the perfect backgroundin this Home Flower Gardens

The lavender in this picture provides the perfect background for this home flower gardens. The red tulips provide the highlight along with the single yellow tulip that makes its presence known in a beautiful way, contrasting beautifully against the red of the other tulips and the blue of the lavender.

Welcome to this amazing gallery of home flower gardens and flower landscape pictures. This gallery is one of absolute brilliance of richness and color and if a computer could transmit the smell of some of these flowers, you would be blown away. Perhaps one day, the internet will provide the thrill and joy of smell as well as visuals.

A floral display in a garden during spring is one of life’s real pleasures and joys. Taking a walk through a botanical gardens at this time can really enrich your life and make you glad to be alive. When nature puts on a display of color and richness amidst a cleverly designed and landscaped garden, nothing can compare. This explosion of color in nature is not only a pleasure to behold but it also attracts bees, birds, and butterflies and often throws in a variety of floral fragrances as well, as if we weren’t impressed enough with just the variety of colors.

Whether you’re a gardener or not, or whether you a flower person or not, you can’t help but be impressed by the floral displays of some of these home flower gardens. Nature’s canvas offers us all a free viewing of just how wonderful the whole cycle of life can be. Enjoy these flower landscape pictures and feel free to share some of these amazing pictures with the rest of the world.

An old English style country house overlooks a stunning abundant field of vivid lavender flowers. With density of planting, and separation by walkways, these rows of flowering lavender, are so intense, it almost defies belief.

A multi colored patchwork display of tulips in Longwood Gardens. Grouped into distinct color sections, the overall picture resembles a patchwork quilt against a backdrop of grass and lawn.

This is a close up of a garden of white tulips with one particular tulip having an unique single red petal. A fascinating contrast against the white and green

Grape hyacinths in a spring garden with plants and flowers in the background

A stunning colorful collection of chrysanthemum flowers blended together with a number of other flower varieties within a garden setting. Bunches of reds, greens, yellows, mauves, yellows and apricot colored flowers create a visual feast for the eyes

Lilium candidum Madonna Lily. This is one of the true lilies that flowers in late spring and has long lasting cut flowers

Outdoor image of yellow daffodils growing in an abundantly full bed of flowers

This image shows a closeup of the flowering lily of the valley, with its almost waxy look, it could almost pass for an artificial flower. These flowers are dainty and beautiful and a delight to see

Rhododendron bush in full floral bloom with its almost crimson explosion of color, set magnificently against the green leaves of the bush

This is a colorful freesia bed surrounding a tree trunk. With a number of different color varieties, freesias are some of the first flowers to spring into life in the spring along with perfumed bouquet that tells you spring has arrived

Beautiful garden of three different flower varieties and colors in north of Thailand

Multi floral colorful Butchart garden during spring in Victoria British Columbia Canada. A finely crafted rock path meanders in between the rockery walls and abundance of flower varieties

Close up of multi colored array of Pansy flowers in a home garden

Green lawn in a colorful landscaped garden with a variety of flowers in different colors

Here we have a pergola with tendrils of cream and purple Chinese Wisteria during its short flowering season. Wisteria when planted near the entrances to old classic or Victorian style homes have an absolute magical quality when they burst into flower.

This little kitten is inquisitively searching for something amidst the chamomile daisy like flowers

This flower garden with carefully chosen colors and varieties sits in the middle of a grassy garden area

A stunning park landscape during spring showing the trunks of tall mature trees with an abundance of flowers at their base beside a red gravel roadway

Trees and tulip flowers in a mixed garden. This park like setting during spring time is a joy to behold, and worth waiting all winter for.

An abundance of colorful tulips in the garden. Reds, yellows, purples and oranges provide a visual extravaganze to the eyes.

Colorful plumed Cockscomb flower in the garden. The reds and creams against the greens provide the perfect color contrast

Tulips in a field with bright yellow color and red edging

This curve shaped colorful flower bed with contrasting flowers with a lush lawn in between

Outdoor Dining Areas and Outdoor Alfresco Ideas

Outdoor Dining Areas -Suburban under cover backyard with outdoors dining table setting and swimming pool

Above we have a modern suburban home with an under cover backyard with stunning outdoor dining areas and an outdoors park bench style dining table setting, a nicely manicured lawn and a glass fenced swimming pool.

Having an area set aside at your home where you can dine and entertain outdoors via either a specific outdoor dining area or with one of the many interesting outdoor alfresco ideas, will create a additional area where you can maximize the use of your overall home space. There’s nothing more beautiful than enjoying a late summer evening meal with family or friends and enjoying the last of the summer sun. whether it overlooks a swimming pool, a lush garden or a small backyard, the satisfaction of being able to relax and enjoy a a drink or a meal in the outdoors of your home adds the overall sense and feeling of relaxation.

An outdoors area for entertaining, dining or just having a few cocktails isn’t necessarily something that takes a lot of thought, design or effort to create. You can create any number of interesting outdoor dining areas by simply laying either a few paving stones, a timber deck, and then just placing your table and chairs. In fact, as you’ll see in this gallery, there are even examples where people have just placed their table and chairs straight onto their back lawn, and often thats good enough.

When it comes to coming up with outdoor alfresco ideas for your home, this gallery will hopefully show you examples to help your prompt your own ideas and creativity. You don’t need to think complex designs and styles if you want to create a simple situation where you can sit outdoors and enjoy the sun and the fresh air. As mentioned above, all it often takes is a table and some chairs. On the other hand, if you really want to develop something with style and pizzazz, then check out these ideas below, and get thinking about the style or setting that you’d love to create at your own home.

A beautiful terrace lounge with outdoor dining table and chairs and a separate seating area situated under a slat roofed pergola providing a dappled sun effect with timber deck and distant views.

This image shows outdoor stylish living with modern chairs and a trestle table set in a garden patio.

This is a summer patio area on a timber deck with table and chairs, umbrella and large tree for shade, all set in a private walled garden.

A backyard patio area with white outdoors table and adirondack Cape Cod chairs overlooking a lush green lawn area and trees in the background.

This under cover patio area is equipped with table, chairs and outdoor gas heater on a walkout deck overlooking a distant scenic view

Backyard paved courtyard area with six setting chairs and table and carefully planted edging wall

Stunning outdoors setting with a cedar garden table and chairs with cushions set on a lush lawn beside a relaxed in-ground swimming pool with paved surroundings.

Outdoors dining setting with cedar table and chairs furniture, sitting on a rock pavement and beside by a swimming pool

Brown cane rattan chairs and table set on an outdoors paved patio in the morning with a background lawn and garden

An old rustic wooden table made from recycled logs and timber slabs in the garden

An example of how simplae and easy setting up an outdoors dining area can be with a simple cedar wooden table and chairs sitting on the lawn in a backyard garden

Outside dining table and wooden chairs beside a luxury designed paved swimming pool

Outdoor patio cedar wooden deck area at the rear of a home with white ‘picket style’ balustrading surround enhanced with a mature bush background

Outdoor simple white garden table and chairs on crafted paved patio in the backyard area of a home

Outdoor entertaining and dining area on a paved patio area with distinct indoor outdoor flow to a beautiful lawn area and fenced swimming pool in a modern stylish home

A modern backyard area with a glass fenced swimming pool and an undercover outdoor cedar dining table on a paved patio area

Modern backyard of a luxury home with an under cover entertaining dining area and pool

A well planned outdoor open air patio area with a gas BBQ, concrete kitchen counter with sink and a six setting dining table on a paved area with a lawn outlook

Outdoor private patio dining seating area in a well planted small courtyard

A wooden table and chairs in a tropical undercover patio setting with a bush background

Unique outdoor eco style log dining table and chairs set on a paved patio and with an interesting unique timber log railing fence.

Beautiful under cover outdoor dining and sitting area with sunlit lawn and a distant pool area and mountain view

Simple outdoor dining table and chairs with green cushions on a timber deck area

Beautiful modern indoor outdoor terraced lounge and dining with pergola and distant scenic view

Outdoor dining area with six piece dining setting on a covered patio

Outdoor dining table setting for an outdoor garden party with another example of how a great dining area can be established by simply placing a table and chairs on a lawn area, near the house and ideally with the outlook of a nearby garden area.

Picket Fence Homes and Picket Fence Designs

Picket Fence Designs shown in this Mansion with white picket fence

The above image shows a stunning suburban two storey mansion house in resplendent yellow with a beautifully neat white picket fence out front. It also has matching guard rails on the balconies and veranda that are in keeping with the front fence and gate.

A white picket fence not only performs the function of being a fence for setting up boundaries around a home or property, but it also has the added benefit of evoking emotions within people. You often hear people talk about wanting to settle for a cute cottage in the suburbs with a white picket fence, and this is because to most people it evokes a sense of cute, calmness when all is good with their lives.

The reality however, is that these days having enough land around your home to create or build a picket fence is rare, as many of us end up in apartments, or tiny blocks of lands in central city suburbs. The white picket fence has become the epitome of the country, or outer suburban lifestyle, where there are an abundance of trees, and lawns and plants.

The style of picket fence may vary, but the essence of a picket fence remains much the same, several well spaced posts of around 3 -4 feet in height, twin railing running between the posts and then the pickets attached to the railings usually with equal spacings in between. Some picket fences have pointed tops, others are flat, some even have graduated heights along the length of the fence (like in the image below). Whatever your preference, a picket fence, painted white, will look good and often add value and desirability to your home.

A stately large two storey white house with black shutters and an expansive large lawn area, a number of deciduous trees in the front yard is complete with its white picket fence.

This is a cute single level villa cottage in a small town in New Zealand with front picket fence.

A stunning long row of modern suburban townhouses all with white picket fences in front provides a visual feast. Simplistic in its style but very effective in enhancing the look and feel of the street

White clapboard house with a simple white front picket fence

This two storey summer house with its white front picket fence looks an absolute picture of desirability.

This three storey stunning tropical house invokes a relaxed feeling with its surrounding picket fence, palm trees and summery vibe.

A craftsman’s house that has a small white picket fence in front that helps to bring the house out and make it noticeable.

Beautiful Victorian style home with full street front white picket fence boundary

Classical Cape Cod style house with its street front white picket fence

Cute Victorian miner’s cottage in New Zealand with a front picket fence painted a cream color which offsets the blue of the cottage nicely

Classic house and yard surrounded by a white picket fence and lots of trees

Two story country home with a simple white picket fence with very thin pickets

An English style cottage with green roof and shutters and a white street front picket fence

House in a rural town with a designer white picket fence on its front boundary

Simple Victorian home in Ferndale, California with a white street front picket boundary fence which highlights the pink house color

Classic American colonial era wooden house with white front picket fence

Pretty two storey cottage in Perkins Cove, Maine with a picket fence style deck as well as a front street front ‘low height’ picket fence

Suburban high ranch house with white picket fence and gate with brick driveway

This suburban Cape Cod bungalow home with its picket fence covered to a degree with a front green bush hedge

Suburban middle class country bungalow cottage with a relatively tall white front picket fence

Two storey white house with dormer windows and front picket fence

Two story white framed home with partially painted front picket fence.

Cottage Garden Ideas

The above image shows this charming English style cottage set in a beautiful classic cottage garden with a white picket fence, an abundance of flowers and mature trees and a classic thatched roof giving the overall illusion of a fairy tale cottage. Just stunning.

According to “Wikipedia”, a Cottage Garden “is a distinct style of garden that uses an informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, the cottage garden depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Homely and functional gardens connected to working-class cottages go back several centuries, but their reinvention in stylised versions grew in 1870s England, in reaction to the more structured and rigorously maintained English estate gardens that used formal designs and mass plantings of brilliant greenhouse annuals.”

Cottage gardens are often thought of as an English thing, however they needn’t be, as the overall look can be achieved in many places around the world where the climate isn’t overly harsh. Cottage garden ideas often go hand in hand with English garden landscaping, but to create your very own cottage garden look, you really only need to adhere to the concept of informality.

By using informal climbing plants, self-sowing annuals and also ensuring there is a liberal spreading of perennials, all mixed with a number of trees will help to create a dense growth of plant life, that given time will resemble that highly desirable Cottage garden look that most people adore.

Traditional English honey golden brown stoned cottage with a colorful flowering front garden.

Stunning postcard view of an old English thatched cottage with an abundant and dense cottage garden

Quaint English cottage with a front cottage garden

Mature English cottage garden area with Chapel in the background

Idyllic English summer house with an extensive dense cottage garden

English country rose garden with sundial near pergola

This cottage has an extensive English garden of flowers, surrounding trees, bushes and is finished off with a pond

A beautiful cottage and pebble garden with a small hand turned well and a small seating area nearby

Cottage garden with wooden park style bench and daisies and flowers in containers

This cottage garden shows a seat situated on the lawn in a small clearing with a glasshouse in the background

This image show an English cottage garden in full flower

Colorful cottage garden amongst rockery landscaping in early spring

A beautiful lavender rich English cottage style garden with a dividing path walkway

Beautiful cottage garden scene with a little garden house, path and lots of flowers and trees

Older style traditional cottage with typical cottage style garden

A postcard view of an English cottage garden

A beautiful row of Cotswold country cottages with their cottage gardens in summer

Manhattan Loft Apartment 425 sq ft Micro Apartment Renovation Project

Manhattan loft apartment showing overall wide perspective view of the whole micro-apartment

The above image shows an overall wide perspective view of the whole apartment from the staircase, showing full view of the kitchen and breakfast nook as well as the mezzanine bedroom that floats above the living room.

This project involved the radical transformation of a tiny, awkward apartment at the top of a six-story building in Manhattan New York. With only 425 square feet of floor area to play with, but a ceiling height of over 24 feet, the new design exploited these inherent sectional possibilities, and created a flowing interior landscape that completely dissolved the notion of distinct “rooms.”

The kitchen area boasts an abundance of cupboard space and simple cooking and wash-up facilities as well as a work bench that continues round the wall adding an area for a breakfast nook or simple dining table.

The architectural strategy by Specht Harpman Architects created four “living platforms” that accommodated everything necessary, while still allowing the apartment to feel open and bright. The spaces are interleaved, with a cantilevered bed that hovers out over the main living space, an ultra-compact bath tucked beneath the stair, and a roof garden with glazing that allows light to cascade through the space.

The modern staircase possesses plenty of under stair cabinets and storage. The previous bare red brick wall can be seen behind the stairs now painted a brilliant white providing real visual impact and contrast to the dark timber floors.

Every inch is put to use, with stairs featuring built-in storage units below, similar to Japanese kaidan dansu. The apartment is crafted like a piece of furniture, with hidden and transforming spaces for things and people.

The above cutaway 3D diagrammatic view of the Micro Loft Apartment shows the full layout of the four floor levels including the stairs to the garden roof top.

Manhattan Micro 425 sq ft Apartment Loft Project
Architects: Specht Harpman Architects
Project Category: Residential Renovation
Project Size: 425 sq. ft.
Completion Date: 2012

The 425 Sq Ft Manhattan New York Micro loft Apartment Floor Plans and Section Drawing

Who are Specht Harpman Architects?

Specht Harpman was founded in 1995 by partners Scott Specht and Louise Harpman, who began working together while classmates at the Yale School of Architecture.
An alternative view of the kitchen showing the working bench space and flow up a couple of steps into the living room.

A small company with rigorous standards for modern design, the firm’s award-winning work includes commercial, institutional and residential projects, as well as custom furniture. The firm maintains offices in New York City as well as in Austin, Texas.

An example of the floating upstairs bedroom showing the stairs to roof garden.

Specht Harpman was recognized in Wallpaper* magazine’s Architects’ Directory as one of the “top 50 up and coming architectural practices from around the world.” The firm recently received an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects (Austin) for Doyle Hall at St. Edward’s University.

A beautiful cosy living room with mezzanine floating bedroom above and a visually stunning white painted brick wall.

Specht Harpman has been listed among the “Emerging Voices” by the Architectural League of New York, “Tastemakers” by House and Garden magazine, and as one of New York City’s “Top 100” architects by New York Magazine.

The entrance (now the kitchen) showing the red brick wall -Before Renovation

The firm has been honored with a number of design awards, including those from the Texas Society of Architects, New York AIA (American Institute of Architects), Austin AIA, and two Design Distinction awards from I.D. Magazine.

A picture showing the full room height – Before Renovation

Stairs and Windows – Before Renovation

The area that became the living room – Before Renovation

The entrance (kitchen) – Before renovation

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