My Garden and Her Flowers
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Projects I design or drafted when working with Blue Door Garden Design Inc.
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Projects I designed at MassArt and Post-Grad architectural opportunities.
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Furniture design projects I created my senior year at MassArt, as well as my own observational drawings!
Landscape Design
Monterey County, CA
Blue Door Garden Design, Inc.
2024-2025
Design Sets
Designed by Blue Door Garden Design and Drafted By Blossom
Client Projects 2025
Clients in Pacific Grove reached out to Blue Door Garden Design Inc. to address landscape design ideas for the entire property. I was able to assist this project by drafting out a seven-page drawing set that included an Erosion Control plan-addressing protocols for constructing in the raining season. These drawings were reviewed by the city of PG.
Clients in Pacific Grove that needed landscape design help with addressing the back portion of their property. With Blue Door Garden Design, I had the opportunity to draft another seven-page landscape drawing set. This set included a Detail page that outlined constructing two fences, two trellises, and an outdoor kitchen cabinet.
Conceptual Design Drawings
Designed and Drafted by Blossom
Client Projects 2024 & 2025
In Salinas, the clients wanted a conceptual drawing that kept several areas of activities into consideration. These zones included a kid-friendly meadow, a private spa to isolate the bath, shower, sauna and hot tub, a fruit orchard, as well as a gardening nook, highlighted by a greenhouse. In order to allow these areas to have a consistent flow, I incorporated an organically shaped decomposed granite walkway that would gradually introduce one space into the next. Off of the back patio, I placed a coastal live oak tree with dispersed grasses and minimal seating to balance active and high trafficked areas. I also included privacy screening via large mature trees on both the Eastern and Western perimeters, to keep the property as a whole and it’s views, unobstructed of neighboring homes.
In Pacific Grove, the clients wanted a complete makeover of the open space between the garage, guest house and behind the main house. In order to make this space feel intentional and provoke interaction, I incorporated several pockets of garden beds with a multi-sized paver that organized the transitions throughout the back property. I added a fenced-in storage area to house the recycling and trash bins, and a second fence running parallel to the shed -intentionally separate the driveway from the property. To remove cars from the line of sight from the main house but keep the driveway accessible, and incorporated a gate and arbor to highlight a clear entry. I also placed a rounded outdoor dining table to mirror the curved and organic pathways and garden spaces. Next to the table is an outdoor kitchenette to intrigue the residents to have BBQ’s or cocktail hour outdoors, and to have the option of cooking and preparing meals on the conveniently tuckaway kitchenette. The final touches to the conceptual drawing were bird baths and water fountains that added auditory and visual stimulation- making the space all the more inviting but tranquil.
Hand-Drawn Illustrations
Designed by Blue Door Garden Design and Drawn by Blossom
Client Projects 2024 & 2025
For this project, the clients wanted a secluded spa zone that connected to the back deck. A hand-drawing was requested to illustrate how the suggested steel privacy screen could act as a seamless buffer when transitioning from one area to the two next.
Illustrated on printer-paper with graphite.
A hand-drawing to illustrate to the client how the selected plant material would look, once grown and matured. When including trees in the pallet, it’s helpful to show just how large they will eventually grow to. Including tree’s into this design was intended to act as a privacy screening for both the bedroom and living room windows.
Home illustrated on printer-paper- overlayed with plant material on translucent paper with graphite.
Architectural Design
Residential Remodel
Hanover, MA
Designed by GPS and Drafted by Blossom
Client Project 2024 & 2025
The client had asked me to draft a schematic design set that included floor plans, elevations, sections, axonometric perspectives and details of the construction. This 3-bedroom 2-bathroom home was in need of expanding to accommodate their growing family.
The project at hand was to draft an addition above the existing garage, to create a primary bedroom with a private bath and closet. We added a hallway to the second floor in order to provide a clear avenue to the new primary. In order to fit the new laundry room, we downsized the original primary, but kept it spacious enough to transform it into the new baby’s bedroom. The first floor underwent some additions as well, including an extension off of the west wall of the garage creating more space for more than one car to enter, and a new porch off the front of the home, directing you to the new front door.
Co-op Farmer’s Marketplace
Lakeville, MA
MassArt 2024
For my senior year thesis, I set out to design a large scaled co-op farmers marketplace. The design I came up with was simple, but had several components woven inside and outside of the marketplace to support a regenerative and year round co-op. Illustrated on the site map, the main design was centered at the kidney bean shaped market stalls (1), where vendors could sell their locally made products. The curved marketspace wrapped around an spacious outdoor tented gathering and dining area (1A), with lots of room to seat folks and families by the dozens. Continue from the outdoor dining are is a kids daycare and play space. Tucked into the seams of where the vending space meets the outdoor gathering area is the kitchen and food prep space. Big enough to harvest produce year round, the kitchen is meant to feed the community, highlight the produce grown year round on the site, and sell fresh food to families and individuals alike. On the South West corner is a walkway that spit you out to the greenhouses and garden beds (9-10), conveniently in path to the indoor kitchen. Off to the North East corner of the market introduces the restrooms and an indoor dining and community gathering space, with an overhead sloped green pasture meant to provide an overlook of the property and a decent hill for kids to play on and roll down (1B).
Eventually the entire property became it’s own self sustaining system, with several greenhouses and acres of gardening space to grow food year-round. I also design an office space, an oxen pasture intended to till the growing zones, a hay pasture to feed the working oxen, bee hives in the pollinator gardens, an interactive area to drop off of pick up compost, and lots of hiking paths and trails wrapping in and around the property for locals and non-locals to explore the premise.
House in the Woods
Rural Massachusetts
MassArt 2024
This project studied an abandoned home located in the dense woods in Massachusetts. This building is very unique, as the structural support of the building is all exposed on the exterior- essentially appearing inside out, this is something you don’t typically see in a traditional residential build. For this project I wanted to keep the intimate and quirky feel. It’s a small yet tall structure- and I wanted to utilize the different levels of the building to my advantage and create separate zones and for these floor to serve it’s own purpose. With the skeleton of the structure wrapping the exterior- this unique look takes on the appearance of a built-in trellis- which adds even more romantic appeal to the facade.
For the House in the Woods, I designed a Farm-to-Table restaurant, supported by an additional home on the property to house workers and those making the experience possible. On the property is a greenhouse to grow the produce for the restaurant on-site, year round. I wanted this gem of a remotely located building to stay small-scaled, and only take on small-scaled dinner gatherings. The kitchen and prep area I placed on the first floor, conveniently close by to the seasonal vegetable garden beds and the greenhouse. From the ground level is a quick elevator ride up, intended for a smooth transmission of moving dishes in and out of the dining room located on the very top floor. Guests are greeted at the parking lot with a long and romantic sloped brick walkway, taking the guest directly to the second floor for guest check-in and the restroom. The second floor is also accessible via a small set of stairs from the ground level. The deck is designed for guest to mingle before dinner begins, as they overlooking the gardens below and the ambiance of the forest all around. The final destination is the third floor, accessible by staircase continuing up from the second floor deck, and the exterior elevator. This dining space seats a limited number of guests, all seated intentionally at the same dining table, where the-farm-to-table experience would begin.
Reclaiming Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury, MA
MassArt 2023
Blue Hill Avenue is road in Boston that is known for it’s endless shops, buildings crowding one another, apartment dwellings, and much more. The exercise was to find ways to reclaim the chaos that inhabits the street, and incorporate a community space that would offers dwellings, areas to support physical activity, and provide a moment where locals can rest- all on one of the most populated street in Boston.
I designed a large solar power generated apartment building, a cafe and eatery economically accessible to all with an attached rooftop garden, a gymnasium and yoga studio, an auditorium for local gatherings, and an office building with plenty of room for a business and their team to work out of.
Residential Drawing Study
Onset, MA
MassArt 2023
For this drawing study, I found myself a relatively-complex façade on a residential home, and was tasked to draw different perspectives. Here, I learned lots of tips and techniques on controlling the line-weight of a hand drawing to illustrate a 2-dimensional elevation drawing, vs the 3rd dimension, exploring a 3- point perspective illustration.
Jamaica Pond Recreation Center
Jamaica Plain, MA
Honorably Mentioned Topographic Model
MassArt 2022
This topographic model maps a public recreation area found in Jamaica Plain, MA. For the project, I was assigned to make a small topographic model before starting the design process. Hand-cut and glued one layer at a time, my model was honorably mentioned that semester for the clean cut results I produced.
Minimum Dwelling Study
Honorably Mentioned Structural Model
MassArt 2022
One of my first architectural design projects at MassArt, we were tasked to design a an entire dwelling within the confines of 16 ft by 16 ft. There were no perimeters of how high we could build, so I readily took advantage of including a spiral staircase that led you up to the bathroom.
This model was honorably mentioned for the creative materials I repurposed for the model: The sandpaper wall, popsicle stick treads and paper straw staircase, the marbled kitchen counter and radio made of bee’s wax, and the clay figures I sculpted for the bathroom appliances, couch, pillows, and kitchen sink.
Furniture Design
MassArt 2023 & 2024
In my two-semester long furniture class, I had the pleasure of designing and crafting a few different pieces. The first, a donation to the Irving MA Library, was a kid-sized stepping stool. Cut from a raw slab of red cedar I made the steps, and the shortened treads of white maple.
The next project was a hand build, eliminating all power tools in the making. I made a 5 sided box with splint- miter joints, and a separate sliding lid. Painted red with old-fashioned Milk Paint, I made the box out of poplar wood, with a smooth and oil stained birchwood lid.
The final project was to build a furniture piece of our choosing. I decided to design a sea-creature rocking animal, and eventually came up with the rocking shark. An animal that has been notoriously painted as a scary and killer monster of our oceans, I wanted to give sharks as a whole, a better representation, as they are an essential being of the ocean’s biodiversity. The body of the shark and the bicycle-inspired seat were constructed out of poplar wood, and the rocking components, both the wave and the vertical panels were cut from white maple. The eyes of the shark as well as the kelp and the scallop shell illustrations were all etched by hand with a wood-burner.
Junipers, Willow, Redwood & Coastal Live Oak
2025-2026
Personal Observations & Studies
Since volunteering with Friends of Carmel Forest, I have started my own series of tree portraits. With my passion for the outdoors, learning about plant material of all kinds, and admiring trees as unique structures made from mother Earth, has all kept my drawing book relatively busy.
