ANNA BOESCHENSTEIN
As the owner and founding principal of Grounded, Anna Boeschenstein combines 20-years of work experience with an affinity for art and design. Anna started Grounded to pursue the finely-crafted details that appeal to her aesthetic background in art, art history and biology. She loves working closely with her clients, uncovering their tastes and realizing their desires in transformative site design.
Anna received her master's degree in landscape architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her bachelor of art in visual arts from Brown University. Anna worked with both landscape and architecture firms in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Aspen, Colorado and Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work focuses primarily on residential and farm sites, and she enjoys taking designs from master planning through construction oversight. Anna is a licensed landscape architect in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Anna's work has been featured in magazines including Dwell, Metropolitan Home, Luxe, Colorado Home and Lifestyles, Abode and has been included as a chapter in the book Wooden Landscapes. In 2017, the Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects granted the Award of Honor to Grounded LLC in Residential Design for the project Bridge House: Spanning Generations.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys getting her hands dirty with her husband Jesse and their two kids on a small farm in Esmont, Virginia. They share the household (and mud) with three dogs, three horses, two cats, 10,000 bees and a solo guinea hen.
Gabrielle sabri
Gabby joined Grounded LLC after several years in the Southwest and is excited to get to know her new Piedmont home. She comes most recently from Tucson, Arizona, where she completed her Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. She then worked at a large corporate-focused landscape architecture firm as a project manager before relocating to the east coast to be closer to family. She enjoyed living in the desert but missed ferns, mosses and shifting seasons.
Gabby especially appreciates designing with native plants. She also feels strongly about designing for alternative modes of transportation and is an enthusiastic pedestrian or bicycle commuter whenever possible.
Gabby was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar from 2012-2014 and has an undergraduate degree in Earth Science from Wesleyan University. She enjoys hiking with her husband, Brian, spending time with her horse, Calvin, and trying out different breweries and vineyards around town.
Services
Grounded offers services ranging from hourly site consultation and conceptual sketches to full-service master planning, construction document packages and project construction oversight.