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This design focuses on the clients love of gardening. Based on a Victorian plant hunters botanical theme, the planting is all about foliage. To set the plants off to their best the garden boundaries are clad with a contemporary horizontal softwood timber slats and painted black. The lower section of the garden adjoining the house was restructured to create a larger more useable area, with a curved retaining wall across the garden. To the left of this is a seating area comprising fibreglass planters with a built-in hardwood timber bench. To the right is a Victorian inspired mini greenhouse. New curved steps were constructed opposite the back door. These steps are wide and shallow to enable easy access to the upper garden.

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Brief

The client had lived in the house for a number of years and had refurbished the interior to a high standard. The garden had little to offer in terms of interest, containing just a ramshackle shed and some overgrown grass. The existing hard surface was compromising the damp proof coursing, so needed to be removed in order that the new finished height was compliant with building regulations. The client likes natural materials, with orange as an accent colour. Description “The garden was split into three distinct areas with separate purposes in mind. The first section, adjoining the house, featured a patio laid with mint fossil sandstone in a random pattern. To the right hand side of the patio is a seating/dining area featuring a railway sleeper table and chairs, plus a railway sleeper bench backed by an orange painted wedge-shaped rendered raised bed. This seating area was framed by a feature wall constructed from upright railway sleepers stained variously with three different block colours. Large black slate slabs lead down the sideway to the door at the end. A single railway sleeper step, running diagonally across the space, leads to the central section of the garden. This section is constructed on a diagonal to the garden side boundaries and features a timber pergola adorned with coloured aluminium chain curtains to create an enclosed, semi-private space. A trio of tall tapered planers containing architectural box balls were placed along the edge of the railway sleeper step, to the left of the pergola, to further screen the rest of the garden from the area adjoining the house. Flooring beneath the pergola features Angelim hardwood decking constructed in a diamond pattern. This area also benefits from a bike store installed in a planting bed to the right of the pergola. A black slate path in staggered zig-zag shape leads from the pergola down the garden to an area of Indian sandstone at the rear of the space. This sandstone paving borders a series of railway sleeper platforms of various heights, backed by a second vertical railway sleeper wall constructed to retain the existing raised planting section at the very back of the garden. The planting scheme follows a black and white theme, including sambucas, phormiums and heuchera, with the occasional orange flora as an accent.

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Brief

The clients bought the property from new and had lived at the house for several years. Whilst they had made the interior just as they wanted it, the garden was as it was when the property was built, with some tired lawn and a concrete slab patio that did not provide an appealing environment in which to entertain or relax. The garden is quite shaded and overshadowed by a large brick wall along the back boundary which is part of a car park beyond. The slope also made the garden difficult to use. Description The design aimed to provide a low maintenance extension of the fresh and breezy style of the interior of this family home. The area level with and adjoining the house was paved with light grey sandstone to give enough space for the client to bring their large dining room table out into the garden when they wish to entertain. The remainder of the space was floored with softwood decking, raised at one end to combat the slope and unite the garden as a continuous level surface. A slate tile edging separates the sandstone and decked areas. An ‘L’ shaped flush bed containing 4 box balls and a stainless steel water sphere creates a focal point from the house through the double patio doors. The decked area was enclosed by a softwood timber pergola. This was half-roofed with timber joists onto which blue Perspex panels were fixed. Suspended from the pergola frame is the main feature of the garden – a large, deep, timber swing seat ready for the client to dress with an array of cushions, mattresses and throws. Aluminium chain curtains hang down either side of the pergola structure to add definition and help to create the illusion of ‘a room in the garden’, a theme re-enforced by three globe lights hanging from the pergola cross beam. Along the left side of the back wall three 90cm high illuminated planters featuring box balls add day- and night-time interest to the space. This was mirrored on the right side of the back boundary with three non-illuminated white fibreglass planters. The left hand planters were framed by three 3 outdoor canvas fixed to the wall (200cm x 40cm), whilst the right hand planters benefit from a backdrop of backlit blue Perspex panels.

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