Courtyard Designs & Ideas

Radhika Pandit

Ranjan Sharma

This house was designed around a small courtyard. Photos by Casey Woods

The garden that we created unifies the property by knitting together five different garden areas into an elegant landscape surrounding the house. Different garden rooms, each with their own character and “mood”, offer places to sit or wander through to enjoy the property. The result is that in a small space you have several different garden experiences all while understanding the context of the larger garden plan.

The glass box encloses an area previously unused

Photos by Katrine Mardini

Photos by Josh Savage for Coastal Living You can order a full set of plans or a study set for this home. Go to: http://www.allisonramseyarchitect.com/fullpage.cfm?id=211

Exterior view of the completed project showing the large addition infused with traditional Spanish Revival elements.

Fountain Courtyard

This remodel of an architect’s Seattle bungalow goes beyond simple renovation. It starts with the idea that, once completed, the house should look as if had been built that way originally. At the same time, it recognizes that the way a house was built in 1926 is not for the way we live today. Architectural pop-outs serve as window seats or garden windows. The living room and dinning room have been opened up to create a larger, more flexible space for living and entertaining. The ceiling in the central vestibule was lifted up through the roof and topped with a skylight that provides daylight to the middle of the house. The broken-down garage in the back was transformed into a light-filled office space that the owner-architect refers to as the “studiolo.” Bosworth raised the roof of the stuidiolo by three feet, making the volume more generous, ensuring that light from the north would not be blocked by the neighboring house and trees, and improving the relationship between the studiolo and the house and courtyard.

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