The firm was founded by landscape designer and licensed landscape contractor Margaret Grace. Grace Design Associates’ projects range from small residential gardens to large estates and major commercial installations throughout the southwestern United States.

Their forte is distinctive design, executed with the values of old world craftsmanship. Every garden is custom-designed and custom-built. For each project, be it large or small, all materials — including plants, rocks, furniture and pottery — are hand-selected by the firm’s designers from the top growers and suppliers in the southwest. The result is a one-of-a-kind garden perfectly suited to the client’s needs and aesthetic.

Grace Design Associates has been featured on HGTV’s hit show, “Landscapers’ Challenge,” and the firm’s work has also appeared in several Southern California and in several national publications, including Traditional Home, Better Homes and Gardens, Garden Ideas and Ventura Life & Style. The firm won The Santa Barbara Contractors Association Builder of the Year for Best Landscape and Hardscape award four years in a row, in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Past residential landscape projects won the Montecito Beautiful Award and two categories of the Santa Barbara Beautiful Award. The most recent award is the 2009 International Landscape Designer Of The Year Award from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

Grace Design Associates’ gardens have been featured on the prestigious Ojai Valley Garden Tour, Garden Lane Tours, and the Parade of Green Building, in addition to numerous other private garden tours in the Santa Barbara area.

 Margaret (Margie) Grace, owner of the award-winning, California-headquartered Grace Design Associates, is a landscape designer and a licensed landscape contractor. An avid traveler and perpetual student of the world’s gardens, she has made her own garden in Spain, Australia and New Zealand over the past two decades, prior to settling in Santa Barbara. She prides herself on bringing the values of old world craftsmanship and a sophisticated design sense to her work on gardens, both large and small, residential and commercial.

Grace Design Associates, Inc.

 Photography Courtesy of  Holly Lepere

Visit Grace Design website: www.gracedesignassociates.com