My wife is from Holland and so many homes in Holland have beautiful small landscape gardens with Japanese maples being a major player to add depth and contrast to other plants. Overall they fit in so well without being overbearing and obstructive around other plants.
Although we have a much larger property here in BC, we incorporate many small landscape applications thru out the garden. We do our daily "garden tour" with our dog to check on all the changes and colors developments, great fun!
So nice to see gardens thru out North America as well adding these beautiful trees to their landscapes