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We Are Houston’s Premier Landscape Installation & Design Company.

Since 1987, Exterior Worlds has specialized in high-end landscape design, development, implementation and landscape maintenance. By working hard to improve our clients’ quality of life, we have become recognized as one of Houston’s finest and most creative landscape firms. Our firm focuses on a variety of design elements and construction techniques, all of which are geared to enhance the beauty of the property while inspiring thought, creativity and enjoyment. Our unique and memorable landscapes can be seen in Memorial Villages, River Oaks, Piney Point Village, Bunker Hill Village, Hunter Creek Village, Hedwig Village, West University, Tanglewood and Bellaire.

In the initial consultation, the Exterior Worlds’ staff works diligently to help clients define the scope of work, phasing, overall project coordination and budget. The next phase may include conceptual design, design development and final cost proposals. In this phase and during the installation, Exterior Worlds serves as general contractor and may subcontract related installation work such as drainage systems, outdoor water fountains and luxury swimming pools, outdoor kitchens or landscape lighting. Finally, Exterior World’s landscape services provide ongoing maintenance and yard care. Refer to our archive of articles for more details on landscape maintenance services, plantings, tree preservation and related landscape topics.

As professionals in our field, we believe good relationships with our clients are as important as the services we deliver. Integrity, in our client relations and in our corporate services, is one of the cornerstones of our firm.

Robert Irwin, the landscape architect of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, said: “…maybe the world is an art form [and] the gardening of our universe” reveals our participation in that work of art.

For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds has specialized in servicing many of Houston’s fine neighborhoods.

Outdoor Landscape Design

Outdoor Landscape Design creates forms of function that merge the boundaries between the purely aesthetic and the purely practical. Nothing in a yard that has been professionally landscaped ever looks purely functional in nature. Likewise, few things on the landscape, if any, are there for mere decoration. Even deliberately aesthetic elements such as fountains and outdoor gardens often serve a very practical purpose as focal points for gatherings or transition

Minimalist design

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Minimalist design

Minimalist design is a design style that takes a less is more approach to aesthetics. In landscaping, it refers to a subservience of content to form more than a specific style. Minimalism can be found in many different types of gardens and landscapes, including formal, French, Italian,Mediterranean, and small garden design. This is due to the fact that all of these styles originate with the Greeks and Romans designs,

Mid Century Modern Landscape

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Mid Century Modern Landscape

What are the Guiding Principles of a Mid Century Modern Landscape? A mid century modern landscape features a blend of formality and abstraction. There is just enough formality to generate a clean, orderly outdoor living environment, and just enough of the abstract to allow for a spectrum of innovation ranging from the subtle to the bold. Rather than creating a single focal point for the yard, this style creates multiple

Home Exterior Design

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Home Exterior Design Ideas

The intent of home exterior design is two-fold. On the level of aesthetics, home exterior design provides an external and sophisticated compliment to the architecture of a house. By integrating Nature and man-made structures, the home interior designer creates a framework into the usefulness of the home interior can be expanded into the world beyond without compromising the beauty of the landscape. This is very important, because the functional elements

Hill Landscaping

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Hill Landscaping

While most parts of the Houston landscape are remarkably flat, properties that border Buffalo Bayou and its tributaries often have a hilly terrain. With some basic hill landscaping ideas, and the help of Exterior Worlds, you can watch these areas can be transformed into some of the most attractive features of your yard that your children, family members, and guests will immediately be drawn toward. The slope of the terrain

Contemporary Landscape Architecture

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Contemporary landscape architecture is characterized by a subjective determination to sculpt the landscape into spaces that reflect the human living experience. It develops these spaces with respect to Nature, and in some way or another always works to create a relationship between architecture and the contemporary landscape. Contemporary landscape architecture can be used either unify architecture and the surrounding landscape, or it can be utilized to starkly contrast the differences

Contemporary Landscape

September 24, 2015 in Contemporary Landscape, Landscape Design

The contemporary landscape attempts to create a mentalist microcosm of the cosmos by presenting a view of the world that everything resides within the mind and proceeds out of it. Subjective expression is the only guideline to go by, because assumed standards or reality are now held suspect at best, if not rejected outright. The only sense of absolute becomes the self and the expression of self. This contributes to

Landscape Design in Houston Texas

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Landscape Designers in Houston

Have you cut out and collected pictures of great landscaping ideas, but now wonder how to actually put them onto your own property? Have you wanted to capture the vision of a stately French mansion on your property in Houston, Texas? Would you like to know whether the plants you’ve admired in European and New England countryside estates will grow on the Texas coastal plains? If so, you need

Berm Landscape

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Berm Landscape

Berm landscapes are characterized by an attractive vertical impact that adds scale and scope to any Houston landscaping design. Architectural accents are reflected in the landforms that correspond to motifs expressed in the build of the house. Smaller berms create boundaries around unique zones of interests, patios, and gardens. Larger earthworks form beautiful walls that support tree walls that protect the privacy of personal outdoor living. The basic form of

Houston landscaping design

September 24, 2015 in Landscape Design, Houston Landscaping Design

The ultimate goal of Houston landscaping design is to transform the home and the yard into a unity between organic and inorganic elements that create an outdoor realm of harmony, balance, peace, and enjoyable activity. In order to do this, the Houston landscaping design specialists at Exterior Worlds must focus on much more than lawn and garden maintenance. They must take bring a blended set of skills in construction, planning,

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