There is something innately inviting and comfortable that resonates with
the human heart when rural estates incorporate a genero us envelope of
landscaped gardens, hardscape designs, pathways, entertainment areas,
pools, spas, expansive green lush lawns that stimulate powerful
memories of the summers of our youth, fencing, walls, architectural
elements - all into a well-kept and lovingly stewarded man-made oasis -
one that serves as a seamless transition between the forms and functions
inside the home to the more distant designs of nature that surround it.
As one leaves the home and walks out onto a terraced walkway and can
look across the sculpted pool and garden areas and watch them merge into
the meadows and oaks just beyond, which in turn move concentrically out
further into space to incorporate neighboring pastures, distant views,
ridgetop forests, there is a satisfying sense of progression from the
intimate spaces of our own lives to the larger world outside of us that
creates the context for everything we do.
The same ambient sense of satisfaction happens in reverse as you
approach home from farther away - first held in the larger forms of
nature that exist there that then proceed to grow smaller and intimate
in scope and more personal in feeling as you move from further outside
to closer inside the private realm of your own home. Your sense of
arrival at home starts when you turn onto your street but grows stronger
as you turn into your own driveway and move under the shade of your own
trees and past the carefully chosen plantings of your own fenced yard
and stop before the sheltered entry of your own special dwelling that
awaits.
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