No. 40 Backyards · French Country
Limestone Estate Backyard with Fire Pit
Beside a limestone estate with blue shutters, a gravel dining area and stone patio feature a sunken fire pit, boxwood hedges, flowering lavender, and an expansive green lawn extending toward vineyards.
Design notes
French country design pairs formal bones with soft edges. Look for limestone walls and terraces, pea gravel courtyards, an axis or allée of pleached limes or plane trees, and clipped box giving structure to lavender, roses, rosemary and iris. Shutters, wrought-iron furniture, zinc planters and a long table under a tree complete it. Worn surfaces are the point — nothing should look new.
What to look for
- How the space is zoned — dining, lounging, lawn, planting
- Sightlines from the back door to the furthest feature
- Layers of privacy: canopy, screening, structure
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