Perched high atop a mountain in Lansing, North Carolina, this home has spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The yard around it, consisting of a steep and rocky slope, immediately drops and experiences other unforgiving conditions, such as harsh sunlight, extreme winds and poor drainage. When the couple who lives here turned to garden designer Jay Sifford for help beautifying the hillside, he embraced the idea of meeting the site’s challenges.
“The biggest challenge was balance. I didn’t want the garden to compete with the mountains. But the garden needed to speak to the mountains and hold its own against them without overpowering them,” Sifford says. The tectonic plates that formed the mountains hundreds of millions of years ago inspired his design, which is composed of stunning mounds of plants, including grasses, shrubs, ground covers, evergreens and perennials.
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If you have decorative period details in your living room, such as ornately carved cornices, ceiling roses or baseboards, painting these the same color as the walls and ceiling can actually help to highlight them. By taking away the distraction of an abrupt change of color, you’re allowing the texture and detail to shine instead, as demonstrated in this Victorian living room by Born & Bred Studio.
Here, the walls, baseboards, cornices, window frame and wooden shutters have all been drenched in a muted sage green. Adding a large reflective mirror helps to maximize the natural light flowing into the room, allowing light and shadow to play across the surfaces, picking out the details.
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