By Impressions Landscape Design
A highly detailed design brief with the request for a garden that would totally transform the property from its prior tired state into a beautifully detailed external renovation.
Every square inch of the property outside of the house walls but including them also was considered and planned for as a complete vision. Modern light tones were selected for the canvas to support the garden that would be the house. These were offset by a detail contrast of Black as a reoccurring theme throughout the property. The house and fixture colours were selected to work seamlessly in a modern uplifting theme with refined, architecturally driven material selections made for the project to work in alliance with a vibrant, textured and colourful planting aesthetic.
A large floating concrete bench provides a functional art installation nestled close to the house in an otherwise awkward void. This doubles as a casual gathering area. A Japanese Maple planted within a circular void cut-out in this structure invokes a statement about the contrasts of soft vs hard elements that make up this garden.
Raw burnished concrete provides an uncomplicated modern presentation and the allocation of a successful detail for the pool and all associated paving areas. The design works in an original kidney-shaped pool with polished concrete designed to provide a seamless pool coping extension that would allow for the purest presentation of the tight spaces that were allocated.
The front landscaping was designed with more of an emphasis on the planting and of a pretty garden element. The front needed to be stunning but also not complicated by structural landscaping components.
Ornamental grasses and a pastel flowering range were carefully planned and placed for repeat interest and a point of difference garden. Many of these plantings giving appropriate scale to the garden and property presentation as a whole. The garden is seasonal with strategic planning of flowering times and plant relationships.
The seasonal plantings of the rear provide a response to the raw characteristics of the garden design. As seasons change, the new colours and deterioration of the seasonal vines and grasses were planned to bring a journey of constant evolution to the viewing of the space.
PROJECT DETAILS
Established in 2003, by directors Adam McDonald and Adam Tanko. Impressions Landscape – Design has today become a leading residential landscape design company. We are a complete and vastly comprehensive landscaping services provider, exploring unique and adventurous design aesthetics for esteemed residential gardens. We manage projects from inception to completion and further on from here.
We regard the design of outdoor spaces as both functional and artistic expressions where both elements rely equally on one another. We design for an outdoor lifestyle and enjoy turning challenges into beautiful defining landscaping interpretations.
Our approach carefully honours individual personalities, client requirements and design preferences. With the interest of our clients foremost at our thoughts. We aim to engage with clients in a process that brings discovery and inspires people to connect with their garden in a spirited fulfilling way.
We don’t prescribe to social media trends and refuse to adopt popular cookie-cutter design formulas. Each client, each briefing, each property is unique and so are our designs. We love to be creative and to explore.
Our vision to deliver exceptional gardens that exceed client’s expectations is brought about by our passion and enthusiasm to provide individually unique garden designs that seamlessly flow out from and enhance a range of contrasting architectural styles.