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St. Paul Home Wins National Award for Landscape Design
Southview Design Wins Grand Award from the National Association of Landscape Professionals for Landscape Design of St. Paul Home
Southview Design won a Grand Award from the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) for the landscape design for a home in St. Paul's Highland Park.
A Grand Award is the highest honor given by NALP, which awards projects all over the U.S. for excellence in landscape, lawn care and interior maintenance, design/build as well as installation, container plantings and erosion control. All told, Southview Design won four Grand Awards from the NALP; other projects were located in Hastings, Prior Lake and Wayzata.
“It’s an honor to be recognized by the national association for the landscape industry,” said Ryan Slipka, Southview Design VP and partner. “We are proud of our staff – designers, project managers and installation crews – who work tirelessly to ensure every project detail is executed to perfection.”
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The “French Quarter Courtyard” brings the flavor of New Orleans to the backyard of a 1929 home in St. Paul’s Highland Park. Frequent visitors to New Orleans, the owners decided to bring a taste of NOLA back to Minnesota. Southview designer Matt Burton’s challenge was figuring out how to build their dream in the odd-shaped 780 square-foot space between their house and garage.
Burton's design concept combined clay brick and both new and reused bluestone on the walkways and seating areas. The custom-designed cedar fence and gate features gas lamps and fleur-de-lis wrought-iron accents. The backyard walkways and patio slope toward plant beds on the other side of the cedar fence so water won’t puddle in the seating areas. Burton’s design included three different seating areas – one in front, one by the backyard fireplace and a private, shaded corner nook near the fountain that’s become the couple’s favorite.
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Southview Design’s landscape designers have created many inviting, award-winning front entries. For before and after photos of all four Grand Award winners, see http://blog.southviewdesign.com/swimming-pools/southview-design-grand-award-winners-2016.
