PROJECT HIGHLIGHT:  As with many of my new home projects, my favorite challenge was devising a site plan solution to a unique directive. Inspired by a Palm Beach garden tour, the homeowner requested an outdoor loggia that would be open to the view on one side and open to a walled garden on its opposite side. This meant a garden, ideally private, on the street side of the house. Struggling to protect this garden from front door traffic, I borrowed a trick sometimes found in homes with front and rear views: I took the sideyard- which in half-acre lots is often a muddy path lined with air conditioner units- and gave it an intimate entry garden with the “front” door.