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Timeless exterior design for real homes
Color • Landscape • Curb Appeal
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Follow @basaltandcedar for timeless home + garden inspiration 🤍

Part V is here — and with it, something I’ve been quietly building alongside this entire series. 🌿

What started as a conversation about why some gardens feel layered, settled and timeless has turned into The Timeless Landscape Collection — Volume I: Layered Greenery.

I’m genuinely so grateful for the response to this series — every save, share, comment, question and message helped shape what I knew this guide needed to become. And today I finally get to share the complete version with you. 🥹🤍

Inside the 27-page guide, I’m taking you beyond the reels with the full Layered Greenery method, timeless plant palettes for USDA Zones 3–11, companion planting combinations, seasonal guidance, practical layering principles, and a checklist to help you look at your own landscape with a clearer eye.

Because the goal was never simply to add more plants.

It’s to understand what belongs where, what works together, and how to create a garden that feels intentional from the ground up.

The complete Layered Greenery Guide is officially available now. 🤍

The complete 27 page Layered Greenery Guide is now available for $19. Comment GUIDE and I’ll send you the link. 🌿

Thank you for being here — and for making this first volume feel so incredibly special.

A more beautiful everyday.

Lesly 🤍
— Basalt & Cedar

#LayeredGreenery #TimelessLandscape #LandscapeDesign #GardenDesign basaltandcedar EnglishGarden CottageGarden GardenInspiration FoundationPlanting GardenPlanning OutdoorLiving TimelessHome by @basaltandcedar

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Follow @basaltandcedar for Part II of the Layered Greenery Series. 🤍

Timeless curb appeal rarely comes from adding more plants. It comes from creating structure, depth, repetition, and a landscape that feels connected to the home.

Layering evergreens, flowering shrubs, grasses, and groundcover at varied heights gives a garden that settled, established feeling—the kind that looks as though it has always belonged there.

Beautiful landscapes aren’t filled. They’re composed.

#LayeredGreenery #LandscapeDesign #CurbAppeal #TimelessHomes #BasaltAndCedar by @basaltandcedar

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The most timeless exterior colors are rarely easy to name.

Not quite green.
Not quite gray.
Not quite brown.

They’re softened by the landscape and borrowed from stone, bark, moss, cedar, and shadow—creating a home that feels grounded, collected, and quietly timeless.

I created the Moss & Mineral Exterior Palette with six nuanced paint colors, natural cedar, and stone inspiration.

Comment MINERAL and I’ll send the complete palette directly to your DMs. 🤍

#TimelessHomes #ExteriorDesign #ExteriorPaintColors #CurbAppeal #BasaltAndCedar by @basaltandcedar

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Stay awhile and follow @basaltandcedar for timeless homes and curb appeal inspiration.

Things We Should Bring Back | Episode 01 🌳

Tree-lined streets. Sidewalks beneath a canopy of old trees. Neighborhoods that grow more beautiful with every passing generation.

Some of the most beautiful places weren’t built overnight. They were planted decades ago.

Let’s bring back the kind of neighborhoods future generations will fall in love with, too.

What would you bring back?

Save this little reminder of what makes a neighborhood feel like home. 🤍

#ThingsWeShouldBringBack #TreeLinedStreets #TimelessNeighborhoods #TraditionalArchitecture #BasaltAndCedar by @basaltandcedar

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Save and follow @basaltandcedar for timeless homes and curb appeal.

The most overlooked part of curb appeal? The driveway.

There’s something so charming about a thoughtfully designed approach to a home.

Weathered brick, cobblestone aprons, gravel paths, beautiful stone borders, and gates softened by mature greenery.

It’s not about grandeur. It’s about creating a sense of arrival—one that feels timeless, welcoming, and as though it’s always belonged.

Sometimes the simplest details make the most lasting impression.

🤍 Save for your curb appeal plans.

Tell me, which would you choose for your own home—brick, gravel, or cobblestone?

#BasaltAndCedar #CurbAppeal #DrivewayDesign #TraditionalHome #ExteriorDesign TimelessDesign CottageStyle LandscapeDesign by @basaltandcedar

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🤍 I’ve curated a collection of classic and timeless wallpapers, including beautiful botanicals, delicate florals, and traditional prints.

Shop the collection through the link in my Stories or SHOP Highlight and save for your next wallpaper project.

Follow @basaltandcedar for timeless interiors, thoughtful design inspiration, and ideas for creating a home that feels beautifully collected.

The art of wallpaper is about more than choosing a beautiful pattern. It’s about finding one that feels at home within your space.

Consider the scale of the pattern, the architecture of your home, and how the colors relate to your millwork and furnishings. Even natural light plays a role in how wallpaper looks and ages over time.

Whether you gravitate toward delicate block prints, romantic florals, or large-scale botanicals, the most beautiful interiors are the ones where every detail feels thoughtfully considered.

Save this for your next wallpaper project. And tell me, are you drawn to subtle patterns or bold, enveloping botanicals?

#WallpaperInspiration #TimelessInteriors #TraditionalInteriors #InteriorDesignTips #BasaltAndCedar

Credit: Beautuful hydrangea wall paper 🩵 @melissadaytonart image 5 by @basaltandcedar

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I don’t want a perfect garden.

I want one that feels as though it has always been there. Moss finding its way between the stones. Paths softened at the edges. Layers of green beneath an old canopy. Flowers allowed to lean and wander.

A garden that feels collected over time rather than completed all at once.

Maybe that’s the beauty of a garden—it’s never really finished. It simply becomes.

Save this for the garden you’re dreaming of, and share it with a friend who would happily disappear down this path with you. 🤍

#GardenDesign #WoodlandGarden #GardenInspiration #LandscapeDesign #TimelessGarden by @basaltandcedar

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Some homes feel elevated without being grand.

It’s rarely about adding more. It’s restraint. A limited material palette. Landscaping planted with intention. Details that feel like they’ve always belonged to the architecture.

Nothing competing for attention. Everything working together.

Because timeless homes aren’t defined by how much they have—but by how thoughtfully they’re composed.

Follow @basaltandcedar for timeless homes, thoughtful exteriors, layered landscapes, and the details that make a home feel unforgettable. 🤎

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A glimpse inside a Basalt & Cedar consultation.

Every home begins with its own architecture, setting and sense of place. From there, we refine the details—creating a thoughtful exterior direction, a restrained planting palette, and a landscape that feels as though it has always belonged.

From the first concept to planting selections, spatial planning and final renderings, every detail is considered as part of the whole.

Now accepting Limited Exterior + Landscape Consultations.
Comment CONSULT and I’ll send you the details. 🤍

#BasaltAndCedar #LandscapeDesign #ExteriorDesign #CurbAppeal #TimelessHomes by @basaltandcedar

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Follow @basaltandcedar for thoughtful homes and the quiet beauty of everyday living.

Earlier sunsets mean lamp o’clock comes a little sooner—and the kitchen feels all the cozier for it. A few flowers, a warm light, and nowhere else I need to be.

#BasaltAndCedar #CozyHome #KitchenDetails #EverydayBeauty #HomeInspiration by @basaltandcedar

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Follow @basaltandcedar along for homes that feel rooted in the season.

Autumn’s welcome begins long before the front door.

Weathered blooms, evergreen structure, a few gathered pumpkins—and the colors of the garden carried indoors through branches, warm lamplight, and familiar textures.

A home feels most inviting when every detail belongs.

#BasaltAndCedar #FallHome #FallEntryway #CurbAppeal #LandscapeDesign Timeless Homes Seasonal Home Garden Inspiration by @basaltandcedar

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MOSS & MINERAL · PART II

The unexpected greens that ground a home.

Not every green needs to feel green. Some settle into the landscape like stone, moss or weathered wood—shifting with the architecture, the light and the materials around them.

Because it’s less about choosing a green, and more about how color, architecture and natural materials work together to create a home that feels rooted in its surroundings.

Stone. Cedar. Copper. Weathered materials.
Quiet colors that feel as though they’ve always belonged.

Comment MOSS and I’ll send you the curated Part II palette. 🌿

Save this for your future exterior project + follow @basaltandcedar for timeless homes, curated palettes and elevated living.

#MossAndMineral #ExteriorColorPalette #ExteriorPaintColors #GreenExterior #basaltandcedar by @basaltandcedar

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