Norfolk
Garden Designs
The owners had recently renovated the house with the idea of it being their forever home and their remit was to create a big social space so that they could get the most out of seaside living. This garden has a wonderful view of the sea, and they wanted it to work well for entertaining multiple generations – their children, grandchildren and friends – and specifically they wanted a swimming pool.
To balance the large house we added big broad steps leading down to the lawned areas. Around the house the paving was large and smooth making it ideal for barefoot living. We created little covered places to sit in, a vegetable garden to the side with a green house and put in a swimming pool which was then mirrored in the shape of some of the borders.
The owners had recently renovated the house with the idea of it being their forever home and their remit was to create a big social space so that they could get the most out of seaside living. This garden has a wonderful view of the sea, and they wanted it to work well for entertaining multiple generations – their children, grandchildren and friends – and specifically they wanted a swimming pool.
To balance the large house we added big broad steps leading down to the lawned areas. Around the house the paving was large and smooth making it ideal for barefoot living. We created little covered places to sit in, a vegetable garden to the side with a green house and put in a swimming pool which was then mirrored in the shape of some of the borders.
As a way of connecting the house to the landscape we created big, long sight lines, that drifted off into a woodland and a slightly mad jungly area of tree ferns, that formed a second layer to the of existing pines, and acer campestris.
We designed the swimming pool so that it was raised out of the ground and enveloped it in a mass of classic soft perennials so that you can swim and look through the planting.
We also created some more intimate, little break out spaces and used clipped forms to forestall some of the long runs.
Materials were driven by those used in the architecture of the house, so stone and brick along with oak for structures and the boarding on the decks.
It was a fun project and we managed to create quite a few completely different atmospheres.
