In house garden design

Upminster, Essex, £165k

This garden build was one of our favourite designs. From the outset, the client admitted that she was going to be very hard to please, but the initial concept ideas and design remained exactly the same with minimal amendments.

• Porcelain paving
• Feature pavers
• Timber gazebo
• Outdoor kitchen
• Umbrella Trees
• Planting
• Lighting
• Resin driveway
• Turf
• Stabilising grids and gravel
• Irrigation

The brief was to create a garden build that accommodated the whole family with areas to relax and entertain all year round.

The garden design and garden build included a stunning outdoor kitchen which was completely bespoke to the client. The front of the bar was cladded in the same pavers as the herringbone pathway and the sides were cladded in the beautiful paving that we laid on the floor. The quartz worktop is the show off statement piece and works really well with the rest of the kitchen. The pizza oven, also bespoke, was supplied by @amigoovens.

Included in this garden design are two other patio areas. One for the morning sun and one for the afternoon sun. We also added a firepit area and another seating area made of @Millboard Composite Decking for the children to enjoy outside the outbuilding.

The pathways are stabilising grids and gravel and work really well against the natural colours of the porcelain and pavers.

The planting was more of a challenge due to sun direction and lots of established trees from neighbouring properties and it’s this uniqueness that means that this garden has something for all seasons. The six beautiful Liquid Amber umbrella trees are another statement piece in this garden. These were supplied by @Harrod Outdoors.

Lighting on this project is perfect with subtle uplighters throughout the garden on all of the trees and strip lighting was added to the underside of the bar. The lampshades that have been fitted to the underside of the gazebo looks like something out of a magazine when the sun goes down.

Client comments:

We are so happy with the results in our garden. We genuinely couldn’t recommend the Essex Garden Co. more highly. An outstanding company delivering exceptional work…and just great people too!

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