{"id":1327,"date":"2021-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transversestudio.com\/toronto-residence"},"modified":"2021-07-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T00:00:00","slug":"toronto-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"toronto residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto residence<br \/>\nMelissa Cate Christ &#038; Amy Turner<br \/>\n2005<\/p>\n<p>Meeting the desire for no lawn, a large shed, and spaces for reading, dining, and BBQing, the design creates a series of outdoor rooms within a small backyard, as well as a front strolling garden, permeable driveway, and rebuilt front and back stairs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/transverse\/12043513_Screen-Shot-2016-10-08-at-2.57.54-PM_1426.png\" width=\"1426\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"toronto residence\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\nRequired by the city to preserve an existing Norway Maple, the front garden retains the existing slope with a <br \/>\nselection of native groundcovers and ferns. A gravel path is surrounded by Hammelis, Narcissus, Clethera, and Cornus. The back garden is lined with a mixed shade planting, a Symphoricarpos hedge, and a Buxus hedge. Design &#8211; CA: Melissa and Amy. Contractor: Don Valley Landscaping<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/transverse\/12043513_Screen-Shot-2016-10-08-at-2.58.38-PM_1714.png\" width=\"1714\" height=\"918\" alt=\"toronto residence\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\nClockwise from top left: Shed and pergola in winter; Gravel path and dining area; Shed in fall; Front garden witch hazel and daffodils in early spring; Shed in winter; First spring for the pagoda dogwood, hostas, boxwood et al.; Path edge detail; Shed door and custom handle; Shed \u201clantern\u201d.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/transverse\/12043513_Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-2.02.43-PM_1774.png\" width=\"1774\" height=\"954\" alt=\"toronto residence\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: Back yard and front yard 10 years after installation. In the back, the client has stained the shed, fence and pergola (after a tree fall caused significant damage), the planting has grown in nicely, but has been shaded out a bit due to dense adjacent Norway Maple canopy &#8211; Amy to do a replanting plan for installation Spring 2017. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto residence Melissa Cate Christ &#038; Amy Turner 2005 Meeting the desire for no lawn, a large shed, and spaces for reading, dining, and BBQing, the design creates a series of outdoor rooms within a small backyard, as well as a front strolling garden, permeable driveway, and rebuilt front and back stairs. Required by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amy-turner","category-design","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.transversestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}