I’ve been researching other urban garden ideas from various landscape architects for inspiration and have come across some great stuff. Here are some spaces I am really loving and trying to find the common denominator in:

from Brook Landscape:

I love this yard, and realized that when I looked at Door Sixteen’s post the other day, that this is the same garden she posted but from a different angle:

From Chicago Gardens:

I love these solar lights in this Pocket Park posted on Mloco a few years ago:

A Cup of Joe posted this lovely garden:

An old favorite belonging to designers Carin Goldberg and Jim Biber:

I’m drooling over all the photos from this townhouse garden round-up on Remodelista. Here are several that really stand out:

And then a ton of inspiration sets on flickr for outdoor rooms. Here’s a good one:

I think what I learned from this collection of photos is that I love modular garden designs with large spaces of green and simple color pooping around the space. Once our garden is sorted out in the next several weeks, I’ll post some photos!

The bathroom was originally designed by Jagoda’s Architecture. With just a few clicks so far, I am really liking their aesthetic—very bright and clean.