No. 35 Front Yards & Driveways · Mid-Century Modern
Terraced Stone Steps and Retaining Walls
A flagstone walkway and steps ascend the slope flanked by stacked stone retaining walls filled with evergreen and ornamental grass planting toward the brick house.
Design notes
Mid-century modern design lines everything up with the house. Look for flat roofs and post-and-beam overhangs, walls of glass, breeze-block screens, terrazzo or large concrete pads with gravel joints, and a rectangular pool set square to the architecture. Planting is sculptural and sparse — agave, yucca, olive, citrus, a Mediterranean fan palm — and colour comes from a single accent: an orange door, turquoise water, a yellow umbrella.
What to look for
- The sequence from where the car stops to the front door
- Walkway width and the landing at the door
- Planting kept below the windows with a tree for scale
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