With innovative hillside landscape ideas, such as terraced beds and low-maintenance plants, you can make the most of a sloped or hilly yard. A sloped yard doesn’t have to be a landscaping ...

How did this business get started? “When we first opened on Hope Mills Road, in 2006, I was still working another job, as operations manager for Oldcastle,” said Ted Hill, who owns Hillside Landscape ...

Why have one hillside cabin when you can have two? Feldman Architecture is responsible for the design of this pair of small cabins near Mill Valley, California. Interestingly, neither is a primary ...

Walk up the driveway of Bill and Jan Decklever's home and you might think the hillside landscape around you has been there forever. Tall trees, vigorous "understory" trees and shrubs and extensive ...

Sal Casa was built with the idea of honoring the landscape around it. To that end, the architects utilized rammed-earth walls to give the home texture, climate control and natural color. The earth was ...

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