There's no set formula. She asks about favorite colors and plants. Generally, she says, the colors in the outdoor landscape mirror the colors inside the house. When she is satisfied that she understands the site as well as the client's needs and budget, LeBlanc retreats to her airy second-floor home office to create a plan. I think about textures.
Color is only a small portion of a good design because plants only bloom for two or three weeks.
When she develops a plan that she believes is appropriate to the site, she presents it to the client for approval. LeBlanc tries to work closely with architects when she is designing for a newly constructed house. At Seaside, architect Vladimir Janovsky appreciates LeBlanc's design philosophy. We see things very similarly. The building, the architecture, is part of the whole environment.