Top view of the front garden. We split the small front garden into fifteen separate beds, divided with different materials, and mulched with different colours of pebbles.
We decked over the existing path to the house with scorched timber, and used black paint to sharpen up the front fence.
Key aims here were to improve privacy inside and out, and to provide outdoor space for living, working and entertaining.
The front garden offers a playful extension of the visual language of the street in the form of a riff on the grid patterns of Mondrian paintings. We toned it down with an urban colour palette of greens and monochrome flowers.
At the rear, a winding path splits the small city garden into different areas, lending the feel of a much larger garden.
This before and after image shows the transformation of the front garden. Black bamboo and a standard olive tree lend the house privacy while still allowing light through.
This mini succulent ‘landscape’ disguises the water filter box outside he house . The bed containing the landscape can be lifted off to replace the water filter, and the box below can be removed for less regular maintenance.
A detail of the bed on the right hand side shows the variety of materials used to separate the beds, each of which highlights the plants contained within.
