Beautiful Bones and Purple Stones is a Landscape Design and Build firm located in Portland, Oregon. We bring together the expertise of an educated landscape designer and an experienced landscape contractor. The advantage that this brings to the client are many. Most landscape designers are very knowledgeable about plants, have a good design sense, and hopefully are people persons. This is fine if what you want is someone to create a perennial border or fill the pots on your front steps. What they are missing is a first hand knowledge of how specific landscape elements are actually constructed, such as walls and decks, and the variety of materials that can be used.
Christopher Tinkham, owner and principal, holds a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and is a 1998 graduate of the Radcliffe Seminars graduate program in Landscape Design where he was taught by Landscape Architects, Nurserymen, Horticultural experts and Landscape Historians. He has also been working as a landscape contractor since 1994. This combination of experience and education allows him to create landscapes that are both artistic and functional, designed with the specific style and needs of each individual client in mind.