A Terrace Garden


Architects & Custom Designers of Homes Embraced by Livable Gardens

Living in a
"GardenHome"
is like living
a dream come true!

Welcome to Our Home Page Who we are & What we do Only Architects can make affordable 'Dream Homes' come true! A Home embraced by a practical yet beautiful Garden is a 'GardenHome' - Short Overview We'll help you Create a Home that is Better not just Bigger Our partially glass-roofed GardenRooms are meant for everyday living, dining, and entertaining, and perfect for growing indoor plants Our Gardens are places in which to live and enjoy yourself In your private 'RoofGarden' you'll always feel on Top of the World A GeoThermal Heat Pump more than pays for itself by drastically reducing your HVAC and Water Heating bills Let us help you create a Home you won't have to abandon should you ever become disabled in any way A Garden is a series of 'Outdoor Rooms without Ceilings' designed to be lived in and enjoyed. At its most beautiful, 'Landscaping' is still just a picture frame. A beautiful Garden adds to your Quality of Life! Here are the reasons why you should have a Garden rather than just Landscaping Excerpts of Bill Hoppe's upcoming book by the same title. Stay tuned for more chapters! An Example of a GardenHome Concept Design Drawing How we Manage our Projects We want a Close and Viable Relationship capable of Producing the Results you seek! How we will Handle Your Project - Overview What our Hourly Rates are based on Here we'll give you a 'Ball Park' idea of our Costs BEFORE you buy that Property, let us take a good look at it FIRST! Tell us what you think of our site and our 'GardenHome' concept ENJOY Our Biographies and Faces How to get a hold of us

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Example of a Deck Garden
Our Roof – and DeckGardens ...

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   ● Can offer you a great deal of additional, highly livable and enjoyable, "outdoor"
       space for surprisingly little extra money;
   ● Can, in the case of RoofGardens, be seen only from the air, not the street
       such that they may offer almost total privacy;
   ● Will more than pay for themselves by significantly lowering your heating and air
       conditioning bills;
   ● Will help the environment by lowering the "heat-island" effect in urban-suburban
       areas and by cleaning smog-laden air.

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Have a Home for Life     "Beauty and Livability" -vs- Size
"GardenRooms" & Orangeries    Our Live-in Gardens     What's a Garden?
What a Garden can Offer     Why have a Garden?     The Garden in History
Virtual Tour of the Gardens at Dumbarton Oaks