October’s gorgeous colours and contrast ceded ground to November’s gloomy rain, we’ve been thinking a lot about legacy.
What do your decisions today mean for the future version of yourself, your home, your family and your life?
Landscaping is an interesting field, since so much of what we do involves the cycle change plated in the seasons. We’re outside all day, all year, and aside from witnessing the obvious changes we install plants and living features that are directly affected by it.
Maybe it’s witnessing this change that leads us to thoughts about stability. Longevity. Legacy.
We all want to leave a positive dent in the universe.
Or at least leave the spaces we occupy better, more beautiful, and more valuable than we found them.
This time of year we focus towards things that have staying power.
For us in this industry that means hardscape.
Few other elements add more value to a property than the stability of brick and stone. Whether its paver-constructed drive ways, retaining walls, paths, patios or garden edges — there’s something wonderfully permanent about hardscape features.
If we’re talking about property value and how to raise it, landscaping can be one of the be best investments you can make (assuming you spend your money on the right things).
But life isn’t always about just increasing the ROI of things. You should also want to enjoy where you live.
Nobody wants to choose between two good things when you can have them both.
Regardless of your tastes in design, it pays to consider this deeply before investing in improvements.
When we design and renovate yards, we encourage our clients to consider two main questions:
Will this work for us today?
and…
Will this work for us in the future?
Balance and legacy.
The key to successfully designed outdoor spaces is to think about how they will serve the needs of the people who occupy them.
This is about more than aesthetics. It's about your lifestyle and how you want your home to fit into that. Perhaps that means crafting a space that exists between what you personally love and want to live in. Maybe it's more about what will delight the sense (and open the wallets) of potential buyers in 2022.
Life is too short to spend it all thinking about how something will look or be in 10 years. But it also moves to fast to not think about that at all.
In more than a decade of designing and creating spaces for wonderful clients, we've found that the key (like so much else in life) is to realize that when it comes to satisfying your need for enjoyment and profit — you can do both.
It just takes a little more thought.
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