Posts Tagged ‘Courtyard garden design’

I couldn’t wait any longer to share some of the images I took last week when I was planting the last bits at my Reigate project.

I met my clients, Karima and Simon, almost three years ago and it’s been a long haul to get to this stage with a house renovation project in the middle and a move over to the UK from Egypt.

Jonathan Blackburn is there now finishing the summerhouse and he’s also making some bespoke furniture, a bin store and bike storage so it’s almost there, but not quite.

Rather than wait until it’s all finished, when some of the plants be going over, I thought I’d share the snaps I took whilst I was there.  It obviously needs some time to fill out, but it’s already put on some growth since I carried out the main planting back in early May.

The best thing of all has been to watch how their children love to be outside.  They’ve moved from flat in hot, dusty and not very hospitable Egypt, to having their own garden and a safe place to play with their friends – the simple things in life have won them over.

I can’t wait to see it all finished – it certainly needs some furniture and the wheelie bins hidden, but I may have to wait until next summer to take some more pictures with the summer planting.

The front too is looking good.  The new steps have completely changed the entrance to the house, where before you stepped down almost on top of the front door.  This too needs some time to fill out, but it’s certainly an improvement.

Here’s a reminder of how it used to look…

More pictures to follow when all the amazing timber work is finished!

I’ve just been working on the designs for a client in Richmond who has the tiniest of gardens, just 25m2 to be precise.  Spaces this small can often be more challenging to design because it’s every square inch counts. Read more

Small gardens are often more challenging to design because generally people want to fit in the same list of things they’d want if their garden was half an acre. Read more

You may remember me blogging the concept design for this project a couple of months ago but I thought I’d share the designs again as well as some quick photos I took yesterday after I’d finished planting. Read more

I have recently been working with a client in Bletchingley who has downsized and moved into a small property with a tiny courtyard garden. Read more

I presented the concept design to a client in Walton-on-Thames last week and I am now working on the final drawings so that we can go out to tender for the build phase of the project. Read more

One of the first blog posts I ever wrote featured a courtyard garden I designed for a client in Reigate.  Whilst the build was in full swing my client was swept off her feet and by the end of the project she had accepted a proposal of marriage and decided to sell the house. Read more