LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
& GARDEN DESIGN
KP Design is committed to creating unique, beautiful outdoor spaces for the everyday enjoyment of nature, with an emphasis on cost effectiveness, high quality, and environmental responsibility. KP Design works with the homeowner every step of the way to ensure complete satisfaction. KP Design forms a partnership with the homeowner during all project phases:
Initial on-site consultation.
Master Plan, with sketches, photos, and ideas for patios, planting, outdoor furniture, window boxes, and containers.
Bidding and Construction. For small-scale projects, KP Design offers in-house planting installation, allowing for a seamless experience. For larger projects, KP Design works closely with the homeowner-approved landscape contractor for the duration of the bidding and construction phases, with an attentive eye on quality, budget, and time.
Additional Services, including color renderings and illustrations, garden consultations, invasive plant management plans, and historic landscape management plans.
No matter what the size or scope of the project, KP Design strives to provide exceptional customer service throughout the design and installation process.
Proudly serving Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, and Jamestown, RI since 2008
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Historic Newport Home
Tasked with updating the landscaping at this historic oceanfront home while being mindful of CRMC restraints, KP Design nestled a pool with integral spa into a space by the guest house. The surrounding bluestone patio features comfortable brick seatwalls, a built-in grill and dining area, and space for enjoying the expansive ocean views. Nearby, a private putting green offers space to play and relax. The plantings and numerous containers were designed to withstand the strong winds and harsh salt spray of the site, while providing ample summer color. Two beautifully planted rain gardens work to collect rainwater and allow it to seep back into the ground without running off. New gates and piers provide privacy and security. KP Design currently maintains the gardens as well.
General Contractor: Horan Building Company
Landscape Contractor: Schumacher
Pool Contractor: Hendricks Pools
Putting Green: Performance Turf
History on the Point
Located in the Newport's famed Point neighborhood, this historic home needed a new garden that felt like it had always been there while also serving the homeowner's modern needs. With that in mind, KP Design designed the property to include a greenhouse, a shed, a small brick dining patio, a larger brick sitting patio with a corner seatwall, a cobble driveway, fencing and gates, and lush, layered plantings that provide privacy and year-round seasonal interest.
Hardscape by Frank Santos, FS Newport Masonry
Planting by KP Design
Cliff Walk Beauty
For the landscaping surrounding this stunning new construction home on the Cliff Walk, KP Design and Drake Design Studio collaborated to design a swimming pool surrounded by lawn, sweeping bluestone terraces, natural flagstone stepper paths, a cobble-edged peastone driveway and motorcourt, built-in grill, and driveway gates and piers, made from granite salvaged from on site, as well as lush plantings that withstand the intense oceanside conditions while softening and grounding the beautiful brick residence. KP Design currently maintains the gardens as well. More recently, beautiful granite walls were built with stone salvaged from on site, and a privet-wrapped dedicated cutting garden, centered on a lovely custom shed, was added.
Landscape Contractors: R. F. Marzilli & DaPonte’s Landscaping
Pool Contractor: Custom Quality Pools
Architect: A. Tesa
Shed: Hillbrook Collections
Jamestown Pool & Garden
Tasked with designing a new pool with integral spa, KP Design modernized the overgrown garden space within the existing stone walls, contrasting clean bluestone coping and modern lawn surround with lush garden beds and classic masonry. The pool space is at once intimate yet expansive to the large lower lawn and ocean views beyond. KP Design currently maintains the gardens as well.
Landscape Contractor: Grandscapes
Pool Contractor: Hendricks Pools
Bellevue Estate
With over five acres of massive trees and amazing historic grounds, this antebellum mansion underwent a garden renaissance over the course of four years. Working with the existing bones of a formal, axial layout, KP Design created planting designs for and oversaw installation of a perennial and rose border, a shade garden, a children’s garden, a large cutting garden, a grove of magnolia trees, raspberry and blueberry houses, a dedicated vegetable garden with greenhouse, and a moonlight garden with gazebo and summerhouse.
Landscape contractor: DaPonte’s Landscaping
Terrace Garden
The original yard was dwarfed by a large deck and bounded by an unsightly concrete wall. KP Design was hired to design a new outdoor space, featuring a dining area with pergola, an outdoor shower, a built-in gas fire pit, and tons of low-maintenance privacy plantings.
Landscape contractor: GrandScapes
Featured in the 2021 edition of Newport Home Magazine
Bunker Hillside
For a home built on top of a WWII bunker, the steep turf hillsides made for challenging maintenance. KP Design designed and oversaw installation of new hillside plantings to reduce maintenance, improve erosion control, and provide beauty. One side features a full-sun collection of low maintenance shrubs, ornamental grasses and perennials, while the other side showcases low maintenance shade-loving plants.
Landscape contractor: GrandScapes
Beach House
The homeowners wanted a low-maintenance, turf-free pool yard that evoked the serene, relaxed feeling of a day at the beach. KP Design designed and installed the new pool yard plantings.
Colonial Cottage
In small Newport homes with small yards, it’s essential to make every bit of space count. KP Design created a simple patio design that became an outdoor room, an extension of the living space, for the historic cottage.
Landscape contractor: GrandScapes