Many landscapes are lovely in your neighborhood, but there is one that stands above the rest. Everything seems just right as you move through the space. A beckoning bench appears just where you'd ...

This is how some make the red front door of their home the focal point of their otherwise green landscape. As a general rule, looking at your garden shouldn’t be like looking into a kaleidoscope.

The doorway of the house usually serves as the focal point; landscape plants should draw the eye to that focal point. The best designs are simple, easily maintained, landscapes without frills and ...

Your entry, no matter how small, also has a focal point. Most likely you will be creating one unless you have niches, unique architectural features or the shape itself stands on its own.

Home decor and design experts share tips to create well-crafted focal point that captivates the eye and tells a story, ... Partner and Principal Architect of Studio SB, suggested, ...

In my professional opinion there are five basic design principles that all successful landscapes truly need: repetition, scale, dominance, balance and unity. Last week, we covered scale. Now, we will ...