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What’s better than Richmond’s garden week home tours when it comes to inspiration for your own home? Not much. But this might be, as you can get a glimpse of Marcia Fryer’s own Richmond City home style right here!
This client, a soon to be empty nester from an old Virginia family is downsizing from a traditional large home and wanted a modern renovation (something decidedly Un- Richmond in style) and integrated with the designed outdoor living space.
This turn of the century Brick “Williamsburg” Georgian Style Home located in an old established Richmond neighborhood was renovated 2018-2019 with the goal of having an outdoor wedding in the fall of 2019.
Step One of Marcia’s Landscaping Design Process is developing a comprehensive master plan that takes into account your family’s needs and living style. This family needed defined outdoor space for their kids to play!
For landscape designer Marcia Fryer, each new home she's moved into features a fresh outdoor pallet for her to curate and flex her landscape design muscles. Her current Near West End home was no different. Through hardscape design, she extended the home's living area outside for reading newspapers in the early morning and cocktail entertaining in the evening.
Working with this 100-year-old Baskerville designed Mediterranean home, Marcia opened up the living space by extending the home outdoors and connecting this lovely outdoor living space with new steel windows. With an eye to keep original architectural integrity, the limestone travertine multi-level patio was designed to embraced some of the mature landscaping elements, while giving structure to outdoor living.
For the January/ February 2017 issue of RHome, an article by Jessica Ronky Haddad with photos by Barry Fitzgerald, Marcia Fryer's landscape design for a Salisbury home on the southside of Richmond, Virginia, shows how attention to outdoor living helped a blended family create more useful outdoor space and a place to play.