Glimpses of our projects. 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

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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Bohemian garden shed.jpg

Talvo before.jpg

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Cathedral before.jpeg

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The pleasure and duty of living well.

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The pleasure and duty of living well. —