In our last post we were looking a challenging site to say the latest. The garden is divided in two by a block wall and one half is almost a metre below the level of the rest of the garden.
Well we like a design challenge! The clients wanted to maximise the space and so did we. We wanted to give them a garden design that unified the garden on one level and provide a much greater sense of privacy.
We have produced a design that seems to meet all the clients needs and the challenging aspects of the site.
We proposed to unify the garden into one space by removing the dividing wall and building up the right hand side to the same level as the rest of the garden. The dotted line indicates the line of the dividing block wall.
The whole garden will tilt on the line of the outside boundary (to the right). The old sheds will be demolished and replaced by a raised planter bed. Wide steps will lead from both doors to a buff granite patio area.
The planting will include screening trees, mature hedging for the end of the garden for privacy and raised vegetable planters.
A path from the patio will lead down to the bottom of the garden and down to steps to the shed which will be a lower level than the rest of the garden.
As visualisation gave the clients an artistic impression of how the garden will look as it matures. As the house is on quite a height, the dense planting to the right including 2 metre clear stem specimen trees will provide important privacy screen from the adjoining roadway.
The raised planter bed to the left of the dining room doors off the steps will lessen the height difference between the house and the patio level.
A simple to scale cross section of the garden at different points helped the clients see the levels involved.
The clients liked the overall concept design but decided they wanted to include a small side garden as part of the garden as this would also be an entrance for visitors to the garden. Once these issues were agree the clients wanted to proceed straightaway.
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