Time to start planning a garden design! Help and ideas please? ☺️
Gabby Wong
3 years ago
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Comments (20)I agree with the others about removing the small bushes - as it will open the garden up and let light in. I shared this picture to show how much impact a very narrow border can give. I planted it all white - but I have lovely coloured borders too :) My advice would be to get on with it. This only took 14 months to get this established, and plants/borders can easily be moved! Good luck. Also - a circle around the bottom of your beautiful tree would allow for a great and simple splash of colour, either for spring bulbs and perennials or bedding plants!...See MoreKitchen plan for better garden flow? Help please!
Comments (13)Keiblum's suggestion saves an extension and could be built on. if the play space is no longer needed then that means the room uses can return to living, kitchen and dining. my thoughts run to keeping the doors to the patio bbq area, run the kitchen down that wall (and honestly I don't know how long or how many cabinets that could be), use your Ikea island and see if any you could make use of the under stair area for utility area (something like a European laundry) or maybe the fridge ? The fridge might be better in the cabinet run though. Add another set of doors where the kitchen sink once overlooked the garden and use this area as your dining. You might even find yiu have space for more informal seating. In doing this you will be able to connect your bbq area to the kitchen and find yourself using this area as an outdoor dining room, giving rise to possibilities of further development of this space to use rather than it be a walk through. Another thought is if the layout was swapped as described you might be able to explore gaining more outlook by adding a full length window into the wall between the two sets of doors, or even removing the wall completely and glazing it to become full glass right across the rear wall, but without changing the footprint? Putting in another set of french doors might be the more reasonable option if the kitchen is swapped, but Kieblem's suggestion makes great use of the available materials ....See MoreStarting new build, first time.. help
Comments (1)Generally speaking a chartered surveyor is used for assessing the condition of an existing building. Since many work as valuers it’s hard to imagine that yours has the technical expertise to prepare detailed enough plans for planners and then further plans to go out to tender for builders quotes. Architects would generally understand local planning idiosyncrasies and be able to navigate the planning process and may well be able to project manage the build later. However you might decide to use a designer or a concept planner to explore the creative options to come up with a plan. You could use an architectural technician to deliver technical plans and elevations for planning. You might have a builder in mind and not be going out to tender. And you might not need a project manager if your builder is a full service firm or you might hire a project manager. So architects are not the only route but a chartered surveyor is not the obvious alternative....See MoreGarden Design ideas - please help!
Comments (6)Hiya Yes long narrow gardens can be quite a challenge and overwhelming at first sight. A couple of comments and suggestions that might help. Firstly, to divide a garden up into rooms you don't necessarily want to have complete screenings across the garden as this really hides the rest of the garden from view. It is much better to have areas of planting coming out into the space and use items of hard landscaping like paths to add the suggestion of rooms. I attach a photo where this has been done very well. Each circular area feels like a room, but is partly visible from elsewhere in the garden. This creates journeys and half-seem focal points that add interest and mystery to the garden as a whole and draw you out to explore it. Within each room there are also hidden quiet spots. Secondly, the best place to hide the circular covers is in one of the beds that come out into the lawn, or even just in the lawn itself, particularly if it is just beside a bed. With all the other distractions going on, you will not notice them nearly as much, if at all. Planting wise, I would not plant a big tree near the sewerage system, but most shrubs would be fine, as would a small tree like an Acer or an Amelanchier. Both are lovely trees. The final option would be to hire a local garden designer to do this planning for you, or even just pay them for a 'design consultation'. A number of designers will charge you an hourly rate to walk around your plot and make high-level suggestions and ideas for you to implement yourself. Good luck with your design....See MoreGabby Wong
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