Garden Blogs

This back garden was like any other in the street – lots of lawn, and planting along the fenceline. It was in for a shock! We formed a diagonal grid in the design to create a feeling of openness and give the impression of size. Limestone and slate flagstones formed the new surfaces, and [...]

When I first visited this front garden it was level, but very open to the street. The clients wanted a new design for the front entrance to their house. We formed curved steel mesh screens which we filled with waves of sandstone and Mary River pebbles. The screens not only gave them some privacy, [...]

The clients called this garden a 'blank canvas' and they allowed me to create a new space for them that was aesthetic as well as practical. We agreed on a modern design that would encompass the pool area. Cor-ten steel screens, split-level hardwood decks and large boulders were used to structure. Amongst the boulders, [...]

This property is on Australia’s Sunshine Coast and is set between the canals and the ocean. The brief was for a complete redesign, the clients desiring a more contemporary space to complement the recently completed makeover of their home. The pictures here show the side entrance, one of the three areas that we transformed. [...]