Writing Sample: Real Estate Description
Living in this Plum Beach move-in ready home takes seaside life to another level. With water & bridge views, you'll get your “vitamin SEA” all day long. Take your entertaining outside with large balcony and two decks. Gather your Adirondack chairs around the rustic backyard fireplace surrounded by established gardens & mature trees. Spacious living room with stone fireplace (built from Rhode Island beach stones) and basement wood stove will keep you warm and cozy. The eat-in kitchen boasts granite countertops, stainless appliances, and a walnut butcher block island, perfect for a morning cup of coffee or entertaining. The finished walkout basement offers mudroom entrance, laundry room, and generous living area. A first floor bedroom, bath, and office/bonus room has flexible options. The second level houses an en suite master bedroom with a claw-foot tub, two bedrooms and an additional full bath. With proximity to Route 1 and Jamestown Bridge, Newport and Narragansett are minutes away, which offers the ultimate location for a day of fun in the sun or a night on the town. Named as Providence Journal's Neighborhood of the Week, a quick walk to Plum Beach is a great way to start the day, or take in a game of tennis at one of the neighborhood courts and cool off in your new home's private outdoor shower. Plum Beach homeowners have the ability to join Plum Beach Club, which affords boating, swimming, kids' activities, snack bar, tennis lessons and more.
Writing Sample: Landscape Designer Website Copy
Want more time with your family or maybe longer beach days? Dana Designs organic landscaping for Rhode Island coastlines saves you time, resources, and even the environment! Dana Designs’ organic landscape practices and lawn maintenance ensures that your soil is healthy and your lawn has a strong root foundation and is ready to nourish any plants, trees, flowers or food gardens you cultivate. We offer landscape design, natural soil amendment, mulching, expert pruning, natural fertilization, organic pest and weed control, and more.
INVASIVE INSECTS & PLANTS
Do you know which insects are good for your Rhode Island coastal lawn and garden? Dana Designs holistically looks at your project and takes all living things and creatures into consideration when planning your organic coastal landscape. For instance, many see ants as a nuisance, but they are a vital part of your local ecosystem and play an important role in removing and recycling beneficial nutrients in dead material, including both plants and animals. If you have insects in your lawn that have multiplied beyond your tolerance level, Dana Designs can investigate and come up with the best plan to naturally control the contributing factors, whether by modifying the habitat, implementing biological control methods, or using organic pesticides.
Dana Designs takes the same holistic approach when it comes to invasive plants. There is a difference between a troublesome weed, which is basically a plant growing where you don’t want it to, and a plant that is wreaking havoc on the health and habitat of your landscape. Dana Designs uses expert knowledge to organically attack your weed or invasive plant problem. By studying where, when ,and how these plants grow, adjustments can be made to the landscape practices, like watering, aeration, and mowing, to make your lawn more favorable to the plants you want and less desirable to the plants you don’t.
WATER CONSERVATION
Rhode Island coastal homeowners know that seaside landscaping and gardening can be tough, especially if you want to protect the ocean and watershed for dangerous fertilizers and chemicals.. Dana Designs creates sustainable landscapes that require little to no watering by developing an ecosystem to take advantage of your lawn’s soil type. Dana Designs incorporates organic compost and mulch to help with water retention and reduce the need for watering. Not only does this support a sustainable landscape, it also saves you both time and money.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
While landscaping is an important part of making your house a home, keep in mind that many landscaping activities impact the environment and climate change. By using petroleum to power equipment, landscapers generate toxins that pollute the air, soil and water. Add to that the use of synthetic fertilizers and using non-native plants, and you’ve increased your carbon footprint even more. The less frequent equipment is used, the better for the environment.
As the leader in organic coastal landscaping, Dana Designs ensures that your lawn supports, rather than interferes with, environmental conservation. From using native plants, pervious surfaces and lots of perennials, trees and shrubs, Dana Designs works with Mother Nature to achieve a healthy, sustainable landscape. For example, Dana Designs knows the importance of what types of trees to use and where to plant them. Evergreens planted on the north side of your home provide protection from the cold north winds and reduce your heating costs. Deciduous trees on the south side offer shade and reduce cooling costs during the summer.
PRUNING
Step away from the pruning shears before you make a mistake. Dana Designs knows just what and where to trim! Pruning improves the health and beauty of shrubs, trees and bushes by preserving the best branches and removing damaged or unhealthy limbs before they become an entry point for disease or create a risk for storm damage. Proper pruning removes branches and plant parts that are of little use to the plant and redirects the plant’s resources to its vital, growing parts. Proper pruning produces more flower and fruit as well as develops stronger, healthier limbs.
ORGANIC FERTILIZER & LANDSCAPE COMPOSTING
Organic fertilizers contain all natural ingredients and no synthetic materials. Soils with a five percent organic matter content will not need any additional fertilizer, so by using environmentally-friendly landscaping practices, Dana Designs ensures the optimal health of your seaside lawn and garden. With the holistic approach of using organic fertilization, your lawn’s soil is healthy and supports strong roots, stems and leaves. In turn, your healthy plants are also disease resistant.
Just about all the organic material from your landscaping can be composted and returned to your lawns and plantings to create richer soil. Composted leaves and grass improve the structure and texture of the soil and add vital nutrients for both flower and vegetable gardens.
Dana Designs believes that using organic compost is the best for the health of your lawn and garden. If you don’t have time to make your own with clippings, leaves and kitchen scraps, let Dana Designs take care of the dirty work for you. Quality compost, with a nearly perfect pH and balance of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen, not only improves the health of your lawn, shrubs, ornamental grasses, trees and plants, but it also reduces wastewater runoff and increases nutrient retention.
Organic mulch made from natural resources such as decomposed leaves, compost, seaweed or other decomposed plant matter, creates an attractive finish to any landscape design. In addition, mulch is vital to plant health as it contributes nutrients to the soil, retains moisture, controls erosion, moderates soil temperature and suppresses weed growth.
SOIL ANALYSIS
Every landscape has its own unique properties that must be considered in creating a sustainable, organic lawn and garden, and the main component is the soil. The first step in working on your landscape is to test the soil for levels of vital minerals, nutrients, organic matter and other components so that any imbalances can be corrected before planting.
By providing your lawn with robust, healthy soil packed with nutrients, you support not only your lawn but also the elements that make up a hearty environment for nature’s aerators and decomposers: earthworms, fungi, bacteria, insects and other beneficial organisms. These vital members make up a “soil food web,” and a healthy web supports your lawn and garden by protecting its roots, providing nutrients extracted from the soil and preventing disease. Healthy living soil not only benefits your turf, but also the trees and shrubs throughout your landscape.
Dana Designs will keep your soil food web strong by developing a thriving microbial community. Instead of using harsh, harmful chemicals and fertilizers, our organic landscaping practices support healthy plants by monitoring your soil and checking for a balance of nutrients, pH, and organic matter. We will take samples of your lawn for analysis to provide us with a benchmark for soil treatment. Healthy soil, unlike chemical-laden fertilizer, is beneficial for the plants’ health not to artificially stimulate growth. Unnecessary treatment can be just as harmful as undertreating. With this extensive research, we ensure that your lawn, shrubs, trees and plants get just want they need—not too much or too little.
Dana Designs takes your soil’s characters, as well as your plant needs, into consideration when designing your luscious lawn and garden. The most sustainable, environmentally-friendly practices incorporate native plants that thrive in your home’s unique habitat, which is comprised of soil type, sun exposure, moisture accumulation, and temperature fluctuations.
INVASIVE INSECTS & PLANTS
Do you know which insects are good for your Rhode Island coastal lawn and garden? Dana Designs holistically looks at your project and takes all living things and creatures into consideration when planning your organic coastal landscape. For instance, many see ants as a nuisance, but they are a vital part of your local ecosystem and play an important role in removing and recycling beneficial nutrients in dead material, including both plants and animals. If you have insects in your lawn that have multiplied beyond your tolerance level, Dana Designs can investigate and come up with the best plan to naturally control the contributing factors, whether by modifying the habitat, implementing biological control methods, or using organic pesticides.
Dana Designs takes the same holistic approach when it comes to invasive plants. There is a difference between a troublesome weed, which is basically a plant growing where you don’t want it to, and a plant that is wreaking havoc on the health and habitat of your landscape. Dana Designs uses expert knowledge to organically attack your weed or invasive plant problem. By studying where, when ,and how these plants grow, adjustments can be made to the landscape practices, like watering, aeration, and mowing, to make your lawn more favorable to the plants you want and less desirable to the plants you don’t.
WATER CONSERVATION
Rhode Island coastal homeowners know that seaside landscaping and gardening can be tough, especially if you want to protect the ocean and watershed for dangerous fertilizers and chemicals.. Dana Designs creates sustainable landscapes that require little to no watering by developing an ecosystem to take advantage of your lawn’s soil type. Dana Designs incorporates organic compost and mulch to help with water retention and reduce the need for watering. Not only does this support a sustainable landscape, it also saves you both time and money.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
While landscaping is an important part of making your house a home, keep in mind that many landscaping activities impact the environment and climate change. By using petroleum to power equipment, landscapers generate toxins that pollute the air, soil and water. Add to that the use of synthetic fertilizers and using non-native plants, and you’ve increased your carbon footprint even more. The less frequent equipment is used, the better for the environment.
As the leader in organic coastal landscaping, Dana Designs ensures that your lawn supports, rather than interferes with, environmental conservation. From using native plants, pervious surfaces and lots of perennials, trees and shrubs, Dana Designs works with Mother Nature to achieve a healthy, sustainable landscape. For example, Dana Designs knows the importance of what types of trees to use and where to plant them. Evergreens planted on the north side of your home provide protection from the cold north winds and reduce your heating costs. Deciduous trees on the south side offer shade and reduce cooling costs during the summer.
PRUNING
Step away from the pruning shears before you make a mistake. Dana Designs knows just what and where to trim! Pruning improves the health and beauty of shrubs, trees and bushes by preserving the best branches and removing damaged or unhealthy limbs before they become an entry point for disease or create a risk for storm damage. Proper pruning removes branches and plant parts that are of little use to the plant and redirects the plant’s resources to its vital, growing parts. Proper pruning produces more flower and fruit as well as develops stronger, healthier limbs.
ORGANIC FERTILIZER & LANDSCAPE COMPOSTING
Organic fertilizers contain all natural ingredients and no synthetic materials. Soils with a five percent organic matter content will not need any additional fertilizer, so by using environmentally-friendly landscaping practices, Dana Designs ensures the optimal health of your seaside lawn and garden. With the holistic approach of using organic fertilization, your lawn’s soil is healthy and supports strong roots, stems and leaves. In turn, your healthy plants are also disease resistant.
Just about all the organic material from your landscaping can be composted and returned to your lawns and plantings to create richer soil. Composted leaves and grass improve the structure and texture of the soil and add vital nutrients for both flower and vegetable gardens.
Dana Designs believes that using organic compost is the best for the health of your lawn and garden. If you don’t have time to make your own with clippings, leaves and kitchen scraps, let Dana Designs take care of the dirty work for you. Quality compost, with a nearly perfect pH and balance of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen, not only improves the health of your lawn, shrubs, ornamental grasses, trees and plants, but it also reduces wastewater runoff and increases nutrient retention.
Organic mulch made from natural resources such as decomposed leaves, compost, seaweed or other decomposed plant matter, creates an attractive finish to any landscape design. In addition, mulch is vital to plant health as it contributes nutrients to the soil, retains moisture, controls erosion, moderates soil temperature and suppresses weed growth.
SOIL ANALYSIS
Every landscape has its own unique properties that must be considered in creating a sustainable, organic lawn and garden, and the main component is the soil. The first step in working on your landscape is to test the soil for levels of vital minerals, nutrients, organic matter and other components so that any imbalances can be corrected before planting.
By providing your lawn with robust, healthy soil packed with nutrients, you support not only your lawn but also the elements that make up a hearty environment for nature’s aerators and decomposers: earthworms, fungi, bacteria, insects and other beneficial organisms. These vital members make up a “soil food web,” and a healthy web supports your lawn and garden by protecting its roots, providing nutrients extracted from the soil and preventing disease. Healthy living soil not only benefits your turf, but also the trees and shrubs throughout your landscape.
Dana Designs will keep your soil food web strong by developing a thriving microbial community. Instead of using harsh, harmful chemicals and fertilizers, our organic landscaping practices support healthy plants by monitoring your soil and checking for a balance of nutrients, pH, and organic matter. We will take samples of your lawn for analysis to provide us with a benchmark for soil treatment. Healthy soil, unlike chemical-laden fertilizer, is beneficial for the plants’ health not to artificially stimulate growth. Unnecessary treatment can be just as harmful as undertreating. With this extensive research, we ensure that your lawn, shrubs, trees and plants get just want they need—not too much or too little.
Dana Designs takes your soil’s characters, as well as your plant needs, into consideration when designing your luscious lawn and garden. The most sustainable, environmentally-friendly practices incorporate native plants that thrive in your home’s unique habitat, which is comprised of soil type, sun exposure, moisture accumulation, and temperature fluctuations.
