An Outside-the-Box Guide to Outdoor Living. Let's face it: most of us have the confidence to improve the inside of our homes with a fresh coat of paint, new rugs, furniture, and fixtures. But when it comes to the outside of our most prized possession, we don't know where to start. That's where Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside comes in. The acclaimed landscape designer walks the reader through the process of turning any property into the home outside you've always dreamed of. Focusing on key concepts like Finding Your Comfort Zone and Placing the Pieces, Messervy presents breathtaking plans for remarkable front and back lawns, entertainment areas, and contemplative retreats, as well as innovative ways to create a better flow between the inside and outside of a house.
With thirty years of experience, five books and numerous high-profile lectures, Julie Moir Messervy has emerged as a leader of a movement in which landscape design is as much a personal journey as it is leaving a unique imprint upon the earth. She has inspired a new generation of homeowners, landscape designers and others to create personal gardens that reflect an inward vision deeply rooted in outdoor archetypes, childhood imagination and aesthetic impulses.
Messervy's first book, Contemplative Gardens (Howell Press, 1990), was named "one of the ten best garden books of the year" by The New York Times. Her second book, The Inward Garden (Little, Brown and Company, 1995), won the Garden Writers Association of America Gold Medal in 1996. Her third book, The Magic Land, was proclaimed a "delight" by Yo-Yo Ma and "a companion for inspired daydreaming" by The Boston Globe. Messervy's fourth book, written in partnership with architect Sarah Susanka, Outside the Not So Big House, (The Taunton Press, 2006) was a consistent best seller on Amazon.com and ranked at the top of bookseller lists in Canada. Julie Messervy's newest book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape you Love (The Taunton Press, 2009), is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Julie Moir Messervy also maintains a Blog and Website for JMMDS, the award-winning landscape design studio of which she is the principal designer. JMMDS is located in Saxtons River, VT.
http://blog.jmmds.com/
http://jmmds.com/
Full schedule of upcoming lectures and workshops:
http://blog.jmmds.com/category/events/
