Backyard design guide

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Honor your setting
Photo by Bret Gum; written by Sharon Cohoon

Honor your setting

If you have a great natural view, by all means borrow it as the Japanese do. But this garden doesn’t happen to have one, so André turned to the nearby (but unseen) Venice beach for inspiration. He planted in waves and painted the walls the gray of coastal fog.


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