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Tag Archives: garden design
Feature Spotlight – Integrated Seats
We try to put integrated seating in lots of our designs. Just for that time when the sun comes out, the kettle has boiled and you want to go and enjoy your garden.
Seats and benches can be integrated into all sorts of areas in the garden. We also use them to create focal points within designs. Here are a few different examples we’ve done recently.
Floating Slate Bench
Integrated Seat made from reclaimed flagstone
Slate Bench Detail
Long Integrated Bench under-planted with ferns
Painting with Design
Playing with some new technology as always. Here is one of our recent designs shown in a more traditional form.
New Design – Sloping Circle Front
The success of the redesign of their back garden and the arrival of a large motor-home spurred this client to commission us to redesign their front garden. The brief was to create a modern and clean design for the front garden, keeping as much as possible of the mature plants while increasing the access and parking capacity.
Watch the design video below or see more details of this design on it’s page here
Feature Spotlight – Slate Water Wall
This modern water feature worked in all circumstances. Made from quartzitic slate tiles that sparkle in the sun it is attractive when turned off. It comes alive when switched on, the water gently cascades over the surface of the tiles.
To add a further dimension the feature is lit at night. The pump and lighting are on separate circuits so you can choose to only hear it, only see it or both.
The water reservoir is hidden and so the feature is completely safe for children.
To see the garden that features this water cascade click here
Watch the video below to see the feature in action
Modern Materials Design
Here’s a modern suburban garden design that we created in 2013. We used a mixed of traditional and modern materials to create a crisp and simple design that made the most of the L shaped space.
To see more on this design check out it’s page here
Below is the video showing the design in 3D and photos of the finished garden
New Year, New Tech! – Photo Realism in Garden Design
View from the Pond
New for 2013 we are going to be introducing photo realistic rendering for our garden design projects to truly communicate the potential of our designs. Here are some examples for a design that we are building this year.
We’ve been designing in 3D for nearly 10 years now and the quality of today’s software is light years from when we started out. Look out for more new images soon but to wet your appetite here are two more – click on the pictures for larger versions.
Contrasting Materials
Bench to Patio
New Design – Peaceful Courtyard 1
This is a design for a courtyard garden in Cardiff. Click on the picture above to launch the presentation video.
New Design – Crescent Layers
This garden swept around two sides of a house in St Mellons, Cardiff. A new conservatory had been added to the house and the client wanted a total reworking of the garden. We designed a sequence of crescent shaped curved layers to provide a set of flowing forms around the house.
A patio sighted for the late afternoon and early evening sunshine was raised to catch the last rays of the sun and adjacent was a small wildlife pond with an integrated and lit cascade.
The full page for this garden can be found on our Design Gallery
If you would like our help with your garden then please Contact Us
New Design – Peaceful Retirement
Here’s the first of the new designs that we completed in 2011. This garden for a couple approaching retirement reworked the space after a new conservatory was added to the house. Using aged natural stone materials to blend with the architecture of the house and surrounding conservation area the design provided a relaxing, low maintenance space.
The full page of the design can be found on our Design Gallery
If you think that we could help you with your garden then please Contact Us