visual affects

Working with great clients in their tiny backyard, Tanr Ross faced a choice: Erase items from their wish list, or find creative ways to include everything. Here's how he pulled it all together -- and ended up making a compact space seem a good bit larger than it really is.

Pushing Limits

When it happens this way, it's truly special. The clients had seen my work and had been so impressed that they said they didn't want to "sway" me in one direction or another by offering their own design ideas and suggestions. Almost as important, they had the wherewithal to set me loose in pursuit of what I thought should be done throughout the entire space - everything from the watershapes and the outdoor kitchen to the plants and furnishings and small decorative details. As I discovered and they already