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How to Create an Outdoor Space you Love – Shallow Areas in Pools
Ask a Designer, Custom Residential, Landscape Architecture

How to Create an Outdoor Space you Love

Sometimes, it takes the quiet moments on a peaceful vacation to remind you of some of the great things back at home. In this case, a trip to Costa Rica reminds Jeff about all the things that come together to create an outdoor room that you love, even in our rainy Seattle weather.

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Questions to Ask a Landscape Architect or Site Design Team in an Interview – Board & Vellum
Ask a Designer, Landscape Architecture

Questions to Ask a Landscape Architect or Site Design Team in an Interview

When you are looking into hiring a landscape architect or a site design team, even if you’ve been through the process before, make sure you ask these important ten questions. From design process, to fee structure, to timeline, and more, we lay it out for you so you can jump into your project well-informed.

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Integrated Design at Board & Vellum
Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, News

All Together Now: Integrated Design at Board & Vellum

The benefit of an integrated practice like Board & Vellum, which offers architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, is that all the projects we work on get better – even if they don’t involve all the disciplines. Here, B&V principal Jeff Pelletier explains why.

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Landscape Architecture, News

Introducing Board & Vellum Landscape Architecture

Board & Vellum is pleased to announce our new landscape architecture team, featuring Derek Reeves and Zack Thomas. Now that we have landscape architecture in-house, collaborating with our architecture and interiors teams, our clients can enjoy integrated design services: from inside to outside, and back again. Curious about how it works? Give us a ring!

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Patterns of Place: What Helps Build the Places We Love? - Featured Image
Architecture, Ask a Designer, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Patterns of Place: What Helps Build the Places We Love?

What is it about certain spaces that makes them feel so great? Let's explore "patterns of place" – design features that help form the places we love. From location, to entry sequence, to passive systems, materials, quality of light, and more, these patterns help make that crucial switch from house to home.

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Custom Residential, Landscape Architecture

Footloose and Fency Free

Fences and retaining walls are more than just simple demising lines: they're our walls in our outdoor living rooms. And sadly, so many of the fences that get put up end up being bland, boring, and basic boards. I'm sure that the people who live in these homes AREN'T boring, of course, so what options do they have instead? Plenty. Take a look at a few personalized options.

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