PROJECTS
The slideshows below are example projects I have completed, illustrating the development process I have undertaken in collaboration with my clients.
PROJECT 1 - POOL ROOM
The customer required a space for a pool table, to be separate from the house. We came up with this design of an outdoor garden room. With electrics, double glazed windows and door and fully insulated walls, floor and ceiling, all clad using tongue and groove Cedar boards. Plaster walls and laminate flooring finish the inside.
PROJECT 2 - SEATING AND EATING AREA
What to do with a pile of walling stone? The customer had an old stone wall knocked down and wanted to create a seating and dining area utilising the stone available. We built dry stone walls to match the boundary, creating a private seating area. We then installed a pizza oven beneath a pantiled roof, to protect the oven from the elements. We completed the area with a pergola to create shade and structure and enable climbing plants to complete the look.
PROJECT 3 - FOLLY WALL
The customer wanted to separate a lawn area from a vegetable patch but didn’t want the more popular fence or hedge. We built a wall to resemble the remains of a folly, inserting a gothic arch window. A pair of wrought iron gates completed the look and provides access to the vegetable garden and shed.
PROJECT 4 - STEPS & FLOWERBEDS
The customer didn’t want a slope from their top patio onto the lawn, so we created these shallow steps with flowerbeds either side, making it feel part of the larger garden. The steps and patio were built using Yorkshire stone flags and original Victorian bricks.
PROJECT 5 - LARGE PATIO, DECK & WALLING
It was an awkward garden with a steep slope to the bottom part of the garden. The customer wanted a larger patio/seating area and easier access to the bottom of the garden. We built a stone wall with brick pillars to support the new Yorkshire stone patio, then extended the patio further by creating a raised decked area using large wooden posts for support and adding timber railings around it. This then created space underneath for a log store and storage. For easier access to the bottom of the garden, we built new steps using stone flags and bricks. The bricks then carried on around creating a new pond with a stone waterfall.
PROJECT 6 - SLOPING GARDEN & TREEHOUSE
The challenge with this space was the garden's slope rendering much of it unusable. I built a retaining wall, used the disused stumps of a removed leylandii to create a children's playhouse, and using gabian baskets, gravel. turf and patios, created defined areas for entertaining, eating and playing.
PROJECT 7 - LEYLANDII TREEHOUSE
The natural shape of these leylandii stumps lent itself to conversion into a children's playhouse using some locally sourced timber for the additional frame, roof tiles and cladding.
