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We Are Houston’s Premier Landscape Installation & Design Company.

Since 1987, Exterior Worlds has specialized in high-end landscape design, development, implementation and landscape maintenance. By working hard to improve our clients’ quality of life, we have become recognized as one of Houston’s finest and most creative landscape firms. Our firm focuses on a variety of design elements and construction techniques, all of which are geared to enhance the beauty of the property while inspiring thought, creativity and enjoyment. Our unique and memorable landscapes can be seen in Memorial Villages, River Oaks, Piney Point Village, Bunker Hill Village, Hunter Creek Village, Hedwig Village, West University, Tanglewood and Bellaire.

In the initial consultation, the Exterior Worlds’ staff works diligently to help clients define the scope of work, phasing, overall project coordination and budget. The next phase may include conceptual design, design development and final cost proposals. In this phase and during the installation, Exterior Worlds serves as general contractor and may subcontract related installation work such as drainage systems, outdoor water fountains and luxury swimming pools, outdoor kitchens or landscape lighting. Finally, Exterior World’s landscape services provide ongoing maintenance and yard care. Refer to our archive of articles for more details on landscape maintenance services, plantings, tree preservation and related landscape topics.

As professionals in our field, we believe good relationships with our clients are as important as the services we deliver. Integrity, in our client relations and in our corporate services, is one of the cornerstones of our firm.

Robert Irwin, the landscape architect of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, said: “…maybe the world is an art form [and] the gardening of our universe” reveals our participation in that work of art.

For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds has specialized in servicing many of Houston’s fine neighborhoods.

Plants and Shrubs for Summer Kitchen Design

October 20, 2015 in Outdoor Kitchen

An outdoor building as complex as a summer kitchen can easily rival a custom indoor kitchen. There are few exceptions to this rule. With such an important investment on the line, does it not make sense to choose the very best plants and shrubs to tie the luxury of the manmade to the beauty of the natural? There is more at stake here than choosing bushes and flowers that appear

How to Hold a Birthday Party in your Outdoor Kitchen

October 20, 2015 in Outdoor Kitchen

Your Author Jeff Halperoutdoor kitchen can be the ideal place to hold a birthday party for someone you love. This is because it is much more than a place to cook food. It is a sophisticated outdoor room with a fully functioning culinary facility, a special dining area, and its own built-in living room complete with furnishings and audio-visual entertainment systems. The first thing you need to realize in planning

Swimming Pool Removal

October 20, 2015 in Pool Renovation

Swimming pool removal is most often needed when your pool no longer fits your new vision for your landscape or your yard is too small for a pool and growing children. You may want more yard space or a home sport court for the kids instead. Or, you may simply no longer want a pool at all. In other instances, though, the pool simply is the wrong size and shape

Backyard Kitchens

October 20, 2015 in Outdoor Kitchen

Backyard kitchens range from the simple to the ultra luxurious. Some are basically covered patios with appliances and seating areas. Others are fully furnished outdoor rooms with living room furniture, tables, and entertainment media. As tempting as it may be to invest in the most opulent building imaginable, consider first that the structure will be an integral part of your Houston landscaping plan. Along with your house, your swimming pool,

Swimming Pool Remodeling

October 20, 2015 in Pool Renovation

Swimming pool remodeling is often done as part of a larger landscaping plan. Many times people purchase a home that already has a pool built many years before. Normally such a pool was built many years before by a pool contractor hired directly by the homeowner. The intention at that time was to create a pool whose function and form reflected the immediate interests of the homeowner when it came

Backyards With Pools

October 20, 2015 in Pool Renovation

Backyards with pools are distinguished by a central hub of entertainment that draws people with many different interests. While everyone may not want to get in the water, most people will find something to enjoy in the pool area. Some will want to sit on outdoor furniture and relax while they watch their friends swim and play in the water. Others will want to mingle on the patio for drinks

What Makes Pool House Designs by Exterior Worlds so Unique?

October 20, 2015 in Pool Renovation

You are not limited by the type of pool that you have. Many Houstonians wonder if their swimming pool is large enough to justify an investment in a pool house. In reality, the size of the pool itself has little bearing on whether or not you can have a house built beside it or not. Naturally, a larger pool will look more aesthetically harmonized with a larger structure, but never

Houston Pool Design

October 20, 2015 in Swimming Pools

When it comes to your swimming pool design, varied geometries, materials and plantings can be used to create the style that suits you—from the most dramatic play of water to the most fun playing in the water. Usually designed by a landscape architect who manages the construction and oversees all the details and nuances, swimming pools come in all shapes and sizes. A water work of art, a cocktail

Pool Landscaping

October 20, 2015 in Swimming Pools

Houston pool landscaping begins, obviously, with the pool. Within a landscape design plan, a swimming pool is the biggest, and often the most impressive, hardscape. Equal parts lifestyle, enjoyment and elegance, a swimming pool is the choice of a homeowner whose goal is to maximize leisure time and to create a backyard retreat or family fun center. Houston Pool Landscaping: Questions to Answer • What add-ons do you want? These options

Custom Swimming Pools

October 20, 2015 in Swimming Pools

Exterior Worlds defines the term “custom swimming pool” in a slightly different manner than other companies do. In our definition, a custom swimming pool is a pool that is designed specifically to fit the landscape, the home, and the people for whom it is built. In all forthrightness to all who consider our services, this also means a greater financial investment than one would make by going directly to a

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