Our idea was to run a family business opening a guest house and restaurant complex "Mucenieki" in Allazi, beautiful Sigulda region of Latvia. At the moment we have a large family house which is under construction and only partially inhabited. The building dates back to beginning of 20th century and has experienced lots of history including serving as a local parish house, prison, school. The area around the house is about 1 ha and we thought we would like to create something special out of the space and the building itself, yet still containing the spirit of Family as well as adding value for it to serve as a local family business. . . In August 2018 we approached company “Landeco” who created a wonderful and very structured business plan for us. Not only did they instantly understand our willingness to contain the spirit of the Family and historic value of the property, but they offered fantastic ideas and design based on eco minded values. . . The whole complex was designed taking into account the surrounding nature (Latvia’s biggest national park is just 10 km away) and also it was designed with respect of the Latvian Ethnographic traditional values (Symbols of sun, God, morning star, amber, happiness) . . Some of the planning and design of the complex included : . . Restaurant complex “Mucenieku krogs” with bar, outside grill, picnic and dancing area ,huge traditional fireplace, bread oven, tennis courts, Eco tourism facilities including mini Zoo for smaller guests, pony/horse stall with potential to create a therapy sessions for children with special needs, children’s play area. . . Interestingly, the garden area was designed based on Latvian Ethnographic symbol of tree of Austra. The plants, vegetables, fruit trees would be all organically sourced and grown creating an ecologically sustainable environment with idea to care for our beautiful planet. . . Our family dream for a long time was to run a guest house and “Landeco” offered excellent idea how to transform the existing building into a partially functioning guest house and potentially build another small complex with self serviced apartments. . . We can not Thank enough “Landeco” for taking this project on board, offering such wonderful and ecologically sustainable solutions and adding value designing the whole complex in a unique Ethnographic style! . . We wish you all the best in future and would recommend “Landeco” for anyone willing to create a business and landscape design projects.