Unique Look for a Home Garden

Indiana Limestone Company's recently introduced Urban Hardscape brand name inspires the appeal, flexibility and permanence of the business's timeless limestone to an extraordinary variety of property landscaping jobs. Urban Hardscape items enable architects, specialists, landscape designers and homeowners to grace the domestic landscape with this premium natural stone.

Two products will introduce soon, introducing the Urban Hardscapes line. Pattern Pavers provide the same striking surface textures for which Indiana Limestone products are understood in paving stones for patio areas, sidewalks, and pool decks. They are readily available in mixed-size pallets for smaller tasks.

The Garden Wall reveals the unique look and lifelong performance of natural limestone in a dry-stacked, non-retaining wall item. Versatile in design and practical to set up, Garden Wall can help understand even the most enthusiastic landscape design vision.

The brand-new products are offered in Indiana Limestone's Complete Color Blend, abundant with the buff and gray colors made popular throughout The United States and Canada for more than a century. Each can be provided in a wide array of sizes, shapes and kinds. Indiana limestone is also renowned for its ease of dealing with by masons and its exceptional sculptural characteristics.

The restricted ecological effect of quarrying, cutting and dressing operations for Indiana limestone makes it an extraordinary green product. For certain jobs in the central Midwest, it might make LEED credits.

"Many landscape jobs are created to enhance property, mixed-use or industrial structures," said Indiana Limestone Job Supervisor Ben Wojcikiewicz. "Our special colors have been revealed to improve everything from brick to granite to wood, in traditional and modern contexts. We're delighted to bring brand-new options to the market that enable more flexibility for landscape architects, home builders, remodelers and consumers to utilize Indiana Limestone in their landscape and hardscape projects."

Landscape of Brazils Wealthiest Beach Houses

In São Sebastião, 3 hours east of São Paulo, a 63-mile stretch of white-sand shoreline is dotted with the rich estates of Brazil. "There are actually two main things that individuals care about here," says designer Arthur Casas, with seven homes already built in the area and likens it to the Hamptons in New York City. "The view and the privacy."

He managed both with this four-house "condominium" commissioned in 2011 by Ana Marcondes, child of Pelerson Soares Penido, creator of Brazil's biggest toll-road business, CCR Group. 

Marcondes wanted the family to be able to spend weekends together however still be separate enough, so she asked Casas to construct four structures, each 3 stories tall with its own personal access to the beach, yet still sharing a primary entrance and the features of the 25,000-square-foot home.

Casas resolved the issues together: He highlighted the significant living room view of the ocean by blocking any internal views of the other structures in the complex, providing each a feeling of overall independence. The living-room roofing’s are planted with a lawn, which not only blends in naturally with the beautiful landscape but also provides the bedroom penthouses (and the sunbathing decks above) unbroken views of green all the way to the ocean. "It also generates lots of birds and butterflies," Casas states. And instead of a fencelike privet to provide privacy from the roadway, Casas and his team caused landscape designer Gil Fialho to cover a retaining wall with native tropical plants.

A corridor along the yard, linking the master suite with the other bed rooms, is safeguarded by wood louvers that keep the large areas ventilated. Inside, each big living room is embellished with a couch and coffee table designed internal by the Studio Arthur Casas group. Brazilian staples such as a Mole armchair by Sergio Rodrigues, Vareta lamps, and Kamy rugs complete the spaces. The floor-to-ceiling glass panels that frame the view of the ocean slide open, erasing the boundary in between what's within and exactly what's outside on the terrace, which has a deck, seat, an infinity pool, elegant pool surroundings, and an outdoor grill.