When a Bainbridge Island client approached her about working on the home they were building to reflect their lifelong passion for art and environmental sustainability, Hoda Sheikh, founder and owner of Lotus landscapes & Arboriculture, took up the challenge of creating a landscape and outdoor living space that could live up to the legacy. Where many designers might have planted an expanse of lawn, and paved over areas, or dug up indigenous plants, Hoda looked at the property not as a blank canvas, but one where the natural landscape had already begun to paint the picture.