The complication was that the entry is a roof. People work directly underneath it at the garden level, so before we could think about how the entrance looked, we had to be sure it would keep water out of the rooms below. That work took most of the budget and none of it is visible. The planter beds that had sat empty for years came out and stayed out.

Above that, the moves were small. The walk comes up to meet the city sidewalk so the two read as one surface. We created softer ground underfoot, and the light kept low and close to the path. We kept the railing and the skylight and repainted what we kept.