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A Different Approach

Design Method

We all want to have a beautiful home & garden, and often have ideas on what types of projects might help get us there. But not everyone is in a position to make the large investments necessary to have those ideas executed all at once. But that doesn't mean we can't work toward our goal. The alternative is to implement our ideas over time, to select smaller projects that add up over the course of perhaps several years to make our home & garden into a beautiful place uniquely suited to our families.

At CWDesign, our goal is to help you with just such an approach, to establish a long-term relationship with you and be your reference for each of those projects. This way of looking at your home & garden has two important benefits:

Cost Management: By breaking larger projects down into smaller components, work can be phased over time. And by making you part of the process of defining those phases, we can work together to identify projects that can reasonably fit within your budget.

Homeowner Participation: Our goal is to use targeted design consultations to give you the tools you need to execute the projects. This allows you to move forward at your own pace and also participate as your knowledge and interest allow (from a dedicated do-it-yourselver to a supervising project manager.)

 

Unifying the House and Landscape

When we think of our home, it is often limited to the built structure of our house. But our home is much more that that. It includes the patio for eating outside, the sandbox as another play area for the kids, and a vegetable garden to stock the kitchen. Each are spaces to be occupied and used, just like the interior of our home. In an important way, the places we live are not just inside - we are happiest when the exterior spaces are an integral part of our home as well.
 
But in the traditional context, the house is designed by one person, the landscape by another and the interior by still another, which fails to recognize this continuity. At CWDesign, we offer a full range of services including architectural, interior and landscape design to bridge the gaps, unify your home, and take advantage of the tremendous opportunities that the links between inside and out can provide.

Christopher R. Wollmuth

847.951.7568