Glimpses of our projects in USA, Italy, Switzerland, Iceland. We hope you’ll see history, hospitality, revival, relationships, new life in these images.

These houses and gardens embody our belief that living is itself both a pleasure and a duty.

Restored Tuscan oven
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Seattle garden planted with daffodils
Seattle 1960s home
Tuscan ruin revived, painted in lime wash
Grey lime plaster and restored beams
Children's room in Reykjavik villa
early examination of an abandoned house in Italy
Seattle garden where once was brambles
in the ruins of an old greenhouse, a new atmosphere
abandoned greenhouse... Seattle
...no longer abandoned
children playing in the old vines
Tuscan ruin revived, with pink lime wash and modern blue doors
hayloft in Italian alps
Seattle garden, with imported VALDE pots from Italy
Tuscan house with restored floor
Luscious fabrics add comfort to old houses
salvaged chandelier
garden with japanese rose and cherry blossoms, Seattle
Midwest 1920s house. Was not abandoned, but one of the first projects.
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a decaying house was rescued, and gained a simple kitchen for a young family
pugest sound cottage with lively interior
Whidbey island house
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the beginnings of an abundant kitchen garden where once were only brambles
restored deck with endless views
a dark retail space in Seattle revived to be a spaciuos gallery
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a pond so overgrown, it was almost not found, now fresh and beautiful again
we brought in this rock, as a sculpture, to an abandoned Olmsted garden in Seattle that VALDE revived
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the guardian rock.jpg
Bohemian garden shed.jpg
Talvo before.jpg
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The pleasure and duty of living well.

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The pleasure and duty of living well. —