The Hall Method

1. 01

   Design spaces people naturally want to live in.

   Design outdoor living, not landscaping. Every space should have a purpose.

2. 02

   Create a series of connected outdoor destinations.

   Design a coherent experience, not isolated features — clear hub spaces organize the destinations around them, and the landscape should invite movement.

3. 03

   Soften the hardscape.

   Every hardscape needs planting to settle it into the landscape.

4. 04

   Frame the views.

   Design the view from inside the house first. The daily indoor view is part of the landscape experience.

5. 05

   Layer the planting.

   Design the feeling first, then choose the plants. Experience leads; plant selection supports it.

6. 06

   Light the experience.

7. 07

   Respect California.

   Lush and immersive, with climate-appropriate plant material — naturalness and site-specific design over anything imposed.

8. 08

   Make it look like it was always meant to be there.

   Respect the bones of the property. Reuse the existing trees, stone, and materials worth keeping, and create continuity between old and new.

See the method at work in real before & after transformations, or browse it element by element in the idea book.