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Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love

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For the home gardener, this book demystifies many of the principles of landscape design with a relaxed style, terrific photos, diagrams and personal stories. In fact, Julie maintains that many of the design techniques we are confident in using inside our homes can be applied to the outside as well and she gives many examples. I think Home Outside is a must read for professionals as well to help enable them to communicate effectively with their clients. A great book!

This book has gorgeous color photographs, and terrific ideas. I've never had landscape design explained so easily and logically. The book sparked ideas for me immediately, and the ideas will tie my yard/garden together in a much more pleasing way.

This is by far one of the best written and most informative books on landscape design. Chock full of beautiful photographs, ideas and landscape diagrams. This book is for everyone, from the novice to the trained professional. Great source for inspiration and ideas.

This book was everything I had hoped for and more. It is well organized, the photos are sumptuous, and the illustrations are very well done and reinforce her design theories. This book is useful for the novice and professional. I have toured Julie Moir Messervy's Music Garden in Toronto and after that experience I kept any articles which talked about her work. She generously shares her inspirations and knowledge for creating these very personal home gardens. This book will not spend much time on the shelf.

This book is exactly what I was looking for! The photos and text in this book are informative and inspirational, but what makes this book stand out is the approach of the author. She helps you to identify your personal style and helps you to decide whether you want a front-and-center style of yard, one of overlapping circles, or the like. She challenges you to envision what you want--emotionally--from the garden you are creating, and to use techniques you would use inside your home. This book gave me the final push I needed to finally make sense of my own challenging front yard, and guess what? I love it!

I am a gardener for just two seasons now. Made some basic mistakes and looking to re-envision my property. Borrowed the book from the library. It is perfect for my needs. It has great photos, some before and after shots that demonstrate the design principles the author describes. I don't think I have seen another landscaping book that explains design in ways that a layman can understand. I have perused many garden/landscaping books, read a handful from cover to cover, and this one is one I will purchase for reference.

In her book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, Julie Moir Messervy takes you step by step on how to have, not only a yard which looks fantastic and that you can live with, but one in which you can live. So often American yards are merely accessories to a house, looking pretty but having little to no functionality about them. Messervy challenges readers to change that and create living spaces out of such a precious commodity. This well organized book contains, explanations, diagrams, and gorgeous photos as it encourages you to get out in your yard and live. I am certain to refer to it again as we work toward building our dream home.

Disclaimer: A complimentary copy was provided by the publisher.

Turn your backyard into a living space where you are able to be able to live with the natural wonders of nature. Through Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love you will be able to create a backyard that is worthy of a King.

I was amazed at all the unique ideas this one book presented. It allowed me to see the possibilities I could incorporate in my own home remodeling. What I found so enlightening was no matter what condition or size of your backyard, you can easily create a living space by using plants, flowers, and trees to bring out natures beauty.

Let your mind be educated by all the endless possibilities contained in Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love. For any home remodeler this book is a must have, for it offers a wealth of information that allows for an unlimited amount of creativity.

By following the guidance in this one book, I can easily see how it can save you hundreds on landscaping, and builders. Julie Moir Messervy has done an exceptional job in writing a book that provides you visual guidance that allows you to discover possibilities you never dreamed existed.

If you want to buy only one book on landscape design, "Home Outside," by Julie Moir Messervy is a great choice. The big ideas of the book are clear and compelling, and the examples are inspiring. It demystifies the process of making your outside space feel like home.

Finally a book that really guides you through landscaping!
This was very helpful in really helping me figure out how I want my yard to look. Step by step (and simple!) process of figuring out what you want and how to do it and why.

I loved the text, but only three stars because I was very disappointed with the photography. Nearly all the photos are of yard that obviously spent 10's of thousands to landscape their yards... not reasonable and distracting as your read.
The photos of professional and unreasonably done yards didn't seem to match the words of the book telling us how to do our own, realistic landscaping design.
I would have loved seeing some real yards landscaped in a real way for inspiration like is done in "front yard gardens" by Liz Primeau.