Bramm started sketching his ideas when he was 16 years old while working as a laborer for his high school buddy who owned a landscape construction company. For years he designed and built large, high-end projects, and found a natural ability to visualize spaces, and enjoyed the hard-working and rewarding process of construction and site development.   

Bramm met his wife Amie while they were both earning their undergraduate degrees together in Landscape Architecture. After graduation, Bramm went to work for an Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture firm outside of NYC, and Amie became the lead designer for a large, high-end design / build company working for numerous celebrities and New York City sports-team athletes. Designing professionally in that location, and for that clientele, was very inspiring and an awesome experience they won’t soon forget. However, after several years, they longed for more open space and a quiet life to raise a family, and returned to Appalachia to be closer to Amie’s family and farm where she was raised.

Bramm and Amie started their business in the summer of 2007, where he manages the design studio and Amie and her family run the commercial installation and residential design / build enterprises of their landscape business. Amie also runs her families’ third generation ice cream shop, which is loved by all in their community.

Soon after, Bramm earned his master’s degree, and became a licensed Landscape Architect. He also started teaching professional practice at the college level in the school of business, ran the university’s large farming operation, and eventually became director of the Agriculture program and Professor of Sustainable Agriculture where he manages over 800 acres of diverse farmland in the beautiful rolling hills of West Virginia.

Though their landscape business continues to grow within their region, Bramm travels and designs custom residential and commercial spaces, downtown revitalization projects, university campuses, non-profit developments, and many large and small farms all over the country. Bramm recently earned his Permaculture Design Certificate through Oregon State University and finds himself designing and working with many farmers on how to improve their land, their production systems, and their profitability.

Bramm is natural designer. When asked what separates good design from great design, he will be happy to tell you. “Good design applies practical solutions with aesthetic interest, but great design is based on how well the designer can visualize the actual physical experience of the users in the new space. Good designers may design what looks good on paper using a foundational palette and framework, but great designers can see and create the space in
their mind before it’s ever sketched on paper.”

Bramm and Amie have four daughters - they love family-4-wheeler rides on the farm, eating ice cream and making woodfired pizza at home :)