Residential Landscaping

Residential landscaping by Exterior Worlds provides the discriminating Houstonian with an outdoor living environment that functions as a virtual home outside the home and that generate a higher yield property value investment by creating a sustainable environment that can be passed on to future homeowners.

Organic elements constitute the essence of residential landscaping.
Without greenery, landscapes appear sterile and devoid of energy. Even styles like modern landscaping need some natural form to punctuate the abstract designs of the manmade. In more traditional landscape styles, vegetation forms the core essence of the outdoor experience and consists of several important elements.

• Garden design is perhaps the most varied and complex element of residential landscaping. Almost every culture in the world has its own style of gardening that can be duplicated in the Houston area.
• Any one of these styles can be customized to specific properties as a unique, living expression of homeowner taste and a direct compliment to the house and surrounding property.
• Trees of any type or size can be trucked in and planted. Trees give landscapes everything from shade to borders between one lot and the other

Just as organic elements establish the tone of residential landscaping, hardscape design helps give form and function to its design.

• Patios are built to host specific events and accommodate expected numbers of attendees.
• Courtyards help establish varying levels of privacy and conviviality by their size, geometry, and positioning in relationship to the rest of the yard.
• Decorative masonry serves a similar function by making a yard look much bigger than it normally and providing vertical surfaces to which flower beds, smaller fountains, and decorative statuary can be added at will.
• Outdoor buildings of all varieties can then be added to host specific occasions and to pay tribute to home architecture.

The ultimate success of a residential landscaping plan is often determined by the type and variety of water features that are then added to the property.

• Custom swimming pools are constructed to the geometry and sensibility of the house and to create visual linkage between the house and the entirety of the property.
• Pools can very formal, or they can be built to mimic natural ponds like the ones we commonly see in wilderness areas.
• Residential landscaping also work very hard to use water as a decorative feature by building fountains provide everything from focal points for public seating areas to private spots for contemplation, meditation, and repose.

Outdoor lighting plays not only an important role in residential landscaping, but in many senses of the term, a defining one as well.

• Architectural lighting illuminates the house as the preeminent feature on the property and sets the tone for landscape aesthetic.
• Garden lighting allows you to see the most minute of details in the most ornate and formal plantings even on the darkest of nights.
• Underwater lights illuminate pools and fountains from within to create a myriad of special effects that will contribute ambience and mood to outdoor gatherings and special occasions.