outdoor spaces Archives - MidMod Midwest

DIY Landscaping Advice for Your Mid-Century Yard with Ginkgo Leaf Studio

25 min readDo need need some advice to get started on your DIY landscaping project? This week Jim Drzewiecki is back with his best tips for DIY landscape designers.

I get asked about landscaping a lot and I always turn to our favorite mid-century landscaping expert, Jim Drzewiecki. Jim is an APLD, award-winning principal designer and the founder and owner of Ginkgo Leaf Studio where he and Hannah Paulson design beautiful landscapes for all kind of homes.

Now, not everyone can afford to hire a landscape designer for their project. Others just love gardening and planning for their own yard. And Ginkgo Leaf Studio usually has a waiting list.

So, this week Jim is back with his best tips for DIY landscape designers.

If you tune into the episode you’ll hear him start off with a great idea that I wanted to write down and then start putting into my own designs, immediately!

Expand your MCM house with an Outdoor Room

37 min readOutdoor rooms are spaces around your house where you could be extending your enjoyable living areas, sometimes with just a few simple tweaks.

With spring around the corner, it might be time to spend a little more time in- and on – your yard. Let’s make it COUNT! You can easily feed two (or more) birds with one scone when you create an outdoor room – a space designed to expand your living area without necessarily adding any more solid wall or roof!

Make an outside space you want to spend time in that ALSO fixes design or lifestyle challenges you’ve been having in other spaces. Done right, an upgrade to your yard can be an upgrade to your house, too!