Alfresco Living: Outdoor Finds
Outdoor furniture has come a long way from lawn chairs and picnic tables. Spruce up your patio with fun, funky pieces
Outdoor Living
High Rise Horticulture
Denver Dirty Girls may sound like a rough-and-tumble roller-derby team, but it’s actually the name of a mild-mannered (yet wildly creative) mother-daughter garden design duo
Strategic Tips for April Gardening
As April begins, the pent-up energy from a long makes us want to get outside and plant something. But as our friends at the Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado remind us, some things are better done later than now. April…
Simply Grand
“I love anything elegant,” says the owner of a Greenwood Village patio that’s so grand it feels as if you’ve landed on the set of an old Hollywood movie. “It’s a tribute to a time when there was a sense…
A Life on the Land
Stand in the south-facing loggia of this Spanish Revival home in Cherry Hills Village, take in your surroundings and be rewarded with a direct view of Pikes Peak. Turn exactly 90 degrees west and you’ll spot Mount Evans. Now cross…
Life of the Party
Where It BeganAfter purchasing the empty lot south of their property, the owners of this home in Denver’s Observatory Park neighborhood collaborated with the team at Lifescape Associates to turn neglected terrain into a high-impact, low-maintenance paradise. “Should you desire…
Indoors, Meet Outdoors
Architecture, Colorado Architecture, Denver Home, Home & Garden, Interiors, Landscape Design, Landscaping & Gardening, Outdoor Living
When the homeowners set out to build a new house in Denver’s Observatory Park neighborhood, they had a clear vision for architect Scott Lieb of Sparc Design and builders Scott Kirkegaard and Chad McMullen of AJ Kirkegaard Contractors (formerly of…
Nature's Palette
When Mike and Ann Moore decided to build their dream home, they didn’t have to travel far—or anywhere, for that matter—to find the ideal building site.
Our Favorite Room: Zen Pool
WHERE IT BEGAN The tranquil oasis that rests behind this Castle Pines Village home is a far cry from the landscape Courtney McRickard encountered when she first visited the site. “It was a very native landscape, with an existing water…
Landscape of the Year: Natural Beauty
It’s hard to believe construction on Red Butte Ranch was completed just three years ago. The grounds that encircle the elegant, Craftsman-style Aspen home and its surrounding buildings are peppered with large Gambel oak, stands of aspen, and lichen-covered boulders…
Dining Al Fresco to Beat the Heat
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When mid-summer rolls around, the temperatures in Colorado can soar to uncomfortable highs, leaving residents feeling wilted and lethargic. The last thing you feel like doing when the heat becomes oppressive is turning on your oven or slaving over your…
Pretty as a Picture
Kaye L. Hurtt’s favorite tool is an unusual one for a gardener. It is not a particular pair of Fiskars pruners, a trowel, or even a fancy, no-turning-needed composter. It’s a paintbrush. A former stay-at-home mom, Hurtt began volunteering at…
Sit This One Out
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Marvel at the sheer variety of styles in outdoor furniture that this season inspires: chic chaise lounges and whimsical wicker thatwill instantly transform any outdoor space into a gorgeous getaway, and leave you longing for an Indian summer.
Our Favorite Room
WHERE IT BEGAN: When you find a good home on the right-sized lot in a great location, you become concerned with refining, revamping and—if you’re a family with two young kids—expanding what you’ve got.To realize their remodeling goals, the family…
Design is in the Details
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Clari Davis has achieved the dream that has eluded many a homeowner: a sense of peace in her home.
Love At First Sight
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BEFORE A FEW YEARS AGO, Annie Huston, co-founder of Englewood-based landscape design-and-build company Columbine Design, visited a for-sale property as a homebuyer. When she stepped foot inside the house, she remembers it was absolutely magnificent: clean, tidy, inviting. It even…
Taking Shape
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Booth then brought in flowers and plants to introduce color and soften the hardscape. She selected a wide-ranging color palette of blue, purple, yellow and gold for the sun-filled space and chose bold-sized perennials to give presence. “The form and…
Open-Air Flair
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Designer Lane Oliver has a few tips for creating a bright, whimsical summer tablescape like the one she designed here. Start with the backdrop: the table or the tablecloth. “I fell in love with this large floral print tablecloth,” she…
A Vision in White
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The garden was structured around existing trees and a brick path, which is lined with Winter Gem boxwood. The garden was structured around existing trees and a brick path, which is lined with Winter Gem boxwood. A multitude of textures…
Where Art and Nature Meet
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Feeling inspired?Here’s where to turn: Chevo Studios, Denver, (303) 455-9656, chevostudios.com Design Workshop, Aspen, (970) 920-1387, designworkshop.com DTJ Design, Boulder, (303) 443-7533, dtjdesign.com Feeling inspired?Here’s where to turn: Chevo Studios, Denver, (303) 455-9656, chevostudios.com Design Workshop, Aspen, (970) 920-1387, designworkshop.com…
Organic Inspiration
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Outdoor spaces are the perfect areas to reassemble leftover materials into unique pieces. Trudy and Jim constructed this charming little bench from leftover flagstone from the patio they installed after they purchased the home. There’s no doubt about it: This…
The Art of Blending In
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Architect Freddie Valdez designed the lower-level stairway to appear as if the stairs were outside, in between two buildings. A glass vestibule contains the staircase and joins the two buildings. Architect Freddie Valdez designed the lower-level stairway to appear as…
Growing Up
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Patrick Blanc, French botanist and creator of the vertical garden, installed this garden along the elevator shaft of Bangkok’s Emporium shopping center. You have to hand it to the French: They gave the world Victor Hugo, chocolate mousse and hot-air…
A Garden of Gifts
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Classic Felco #2 hand clippers ($47.50) Available at any good nursery in your area and they also come in small and large. Garden Journal ($36) Classic Felco #2 hand clippers ($47.50) Available at any good nursery in your area and…
