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Best Of Houzz 2015 Award

Eileen D. Obermiller, Principal Landscape Architect at  Dappled Earth –designs to nurture life!  Receives Best Of Houzz 2015 Award

Over 25 Million Monthly Unique Users Rated Top-Rated Home Building,  Remodeling and Design Professionals in the United States and Around the World  Bend, Oregon January 19, 2015 –Eileen D. Obermiller, Principal Landscape Architect of Dappled Earth –designs to nurture life! has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for Customer Satisfaction by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. This Landscape Architecture firm was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 500,000 active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.  The Best Of Houzz award is given in two categories: Design and Customer Satisfaction. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 25 million monthly users on Houzz, known as “Houzzers.” Customer Satisfaction honors are determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2014. Winners will receive a “Best Of Houzz 2015” badge on their profiles, helping Houzz users around the world who discover and love a professional’s work to learn even more about that business’ popularity and satisfaction rating among their peers in the Houzz community.    “Dappled Earth”  evokes an image of the patterns we place on the earth.  Consider a dappled shade pattern that moves across the ground through the day.  Never static. The pattern moves and changes; darkens and lightens.  Now consider the patterns we place on the earth when we build homes, communities, and make alterations as simple as planting trees. These patterns too are not stagnant.  They change and evolve with our values and our whims.  As a educated and experienced landscape architects we design nurturing landscape for our families, our communities, and our planet.  Move with us beyond sustainability and into landscapes that nurture life.”  “Houzz provides homeowners with a 360 degree view of home building, remodeling and design industry professionals, empowering them to engage the right people and products for their project,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing for Houzz. “We’re delighted to recognize Eileen D. Obermiller, Landscape Architect among our “Best Of” professionals as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.”  Follow Dappled Earth on Houzz http://www.houzz.com/pro/eileen-obermiller/dappled-earth-llc or at DappledEarth.com  About Eileen D. Obermiller, RLA #381 Eileen has been a licensed landscape architect since 1997, working in central and eastern Oregon since 1993. She has designed memory gardens, parks, streetscapes, residential & commercial properties, garden structures such as arbor and pergolas, water features and more. She specializes in properties east of the Cascade Mountain range.   Services Provided Dappled Earth provides landscape and site design services for residential, commercial, resort, community, park, and government properties. Design services include on your property consultation, concept plans, full landscape design plans, and management.  Areas Served Central Oregon and areas east of the Cascade Mountain Range.  About Houzz Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish – online or from a mobile device. From decorating a room to building a custom home, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin and Sydney. For more information, visit www.houzz.com

Eileen D. Obermiller, Principal Landscape Architect at Dappled Earth –designs to nurture life! Receives Best Of Houzz 2015 Award

Eileen D. Obermiller,

Principal Landscape Architect at
Dappled Earth –designs to nurture life!
Receives Best Of Houzz 2015 Award

Over 25 Million Monthly Unique Users Rated Top-Rated Home Building,
Remodeling and Design Professionals in the United States and Around the World

Bend, Oregon January 19, 2015 –Eileen D. Obermiller, Principal Landscape Architect of Dappled Earth –designs to nurture life! has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for Customer Satisfaction by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. This Landscape Architecture firm was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 500,000 active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.

The Best Of Houzz award is given in two categories: Design and Customer Satisfaction. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 25 million monthly users on Houzz, known as “Houzzers.” Customer Satisfaction honors are determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2014. Winners will receive a “Best Of Houzz 2015” badge on their profiles, helping Houzz users around the world who discover and love a professional’s work to learn even more about that business’ popularity and satisfaction rating among their peers in the Houzz community.

“Dappled Earth” evokes an image of the patterns we place on the earth. Consider a dappled shade pattern that moves across the ground through the day. Never static. The pattern moves and changes; darkens and lightens. Now consider the patterns we place on the earth when we build homes, communities, and make alterations as simple as planting trees. These patterns too are not stagnant. They change and evolve with our values and our whims. As a educated and experienced landscape architects we design nurturing landscape for our families, our communities, and our planet. Move with us beyond sustainability and into landscapes that nurture life.”

“Houzz provides homeowners with a 360 degree view of home building, remodeling and design industry professionals, empowering them to engage the right people and products for their project,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing for Houzz. “We’re delighted to recognize Eileen D. Obermiller, Landscape Architect among our “Best Of” professionals as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.”

Follow Dappled Earth on Houzz http://www.houzz.com/pro/eileen-obermiller/dappled-earth-llc or at DappledEarth.com

About Eileen D. Obermiller, RLA #381
Eileen has been a licensed landscape architect since 1997, working in central and eastern Oregon since 1993. She has designed memory gardens, parks, streetscapes, residential & commercial properties, garden structures such as arbor and pergolas, water features and more. She specializes in properties east of the Cascade Mountain range.

Services Provided
Dappled Earth provides landscape and site design services for residential, commercial, resort, community, park, and government properties. Design services include on your property consultation, concept plans, full landscape design plans, and management.

Areas Served
Central Oregon and areas east of the Cascade Mountain Range.

About Houzz
Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish – online or from a mobile device. From decorating a room to building a custom home, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin and Sydney. For more information, visit www.houzz.com

What is the difference between a landscape architect, landscape contractor, landscape designer, garden designer, and master gardener?

Landscape Architects (LA)  are required to be licensed in Oregon and many other state to protect health, safety, and welfare. Significant and costly problems arise when landscapes are designed and/or  installed poorly or incorrectly.  Besides plants dying, flooding, erosion, walls tipping, and decks collapsing are typical failures. Many failures can harm people. Practicing landscape architecture or using the title “landscape architect” , ‘”landscape architect designer, or similar without a LA license is illegal in Oregon.

Landscape architects design and manage any project concerning the design and use of outdoor space and the land. The scope of the profession includes site planning, town or urban planning, park and recreation planning, regional planning, garden design and historic preservation.

Landscape and garden designers are not licensed, nor are there any standards associated with these titles.  They are therefore limited by law to making plans or drawings for the selection, placement, or use of plants when the execution of such plans or drawings will not affect the public health, safety, and welfare. Generally, that limits designers to designing simple planting plans that do not require changes to the ground surface or design of structures.

Landscape Contractors (LC) are required to be licensed in Oregon and many other states to protect health, safety, and welfare.  They are licensed to install plants, patios, walls (with height limitations), decks, irrigation. outdoor lighting,  and similar landscape items.  A good LC is highly skilled in all aspects of landscape installation.  LC contractors install landscape designs developed by landscape architects.

Horticulturists are trained in the science of growing and producing plants. Many horticulturists become nurserymen or work in garden centers.  They have extensive knowledge in plant health, pests, diseases, growing conditions, and most concerns of growing and maintaining healthy plants.

Master Gardeners are individual volunteers who have gone through 40  hours of horticultural training through a college program.  They offer advice and direction regarding many aspects of plant health, and collaborate with other professionals to answer homeowner’s landscape and gardening questions. They recertify with the college extension office annually.