Designer: Adam Woodruff www.adamwoodruff.com Image: © 2013 Adam Woodruff + Associates All Rights Reserved Additional project photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam

Striking sculpture in the front entry court by Woods Davy - http://www.woodsdavy.com/Contact.html. Photo by Michael Woodall

a cast stone path wanders threw a garden of succulents, cannas, ornamental grasses and subtropicals

Exterior Landscape + Gabion Wall Photo by BUILD LLC

Elegant water feature surrounded by ornamental trees and grasses welcome visitors to the Bellevue home. Designed by Environmental Construction, Kirkland, WA

Photography: Jeff Cate

Michael Shopenn Photography

Michael David Rose & Paul Dyer

Bates Masi Architects

View from road. Photography by Lucas Henning.

Jeeheon Cho

The guiding concept was to create a sense of place that balances the theatrical with feelings of serenity, joy, and retreat from the sprawling city. Low maintenance elements such as concrete pavers, ipe, gravel, Agaves, Fortnight Lillies, Ornamental Plums, and Cape Rush are sympathetic to the demands of the client's busy schedule. Photo by Eric Brandon Gomez

Part urban cabin, part neighbourhood intervention, the 1,600-square-foot house and its younger sibling, a 400-square-foot laneway home, read like residential installation art. Featuring Slate-Grey pre painted steel standing seam wall panels by Ace Copper