If you’ve got a big garden – something like this would be superb!! Summer kitchens were common a hundred years ago since stoves took a long time to heat up and a long time to cool, and in the summer it would make the house unbearably hot – so people often moved outside to cook …
Tag Archive: garden designer
Feb 15
Renfrewshire: Entertainment Decking Garden Design in Howwood
My initial ideas for the garden design were to compliment the shape of the plot – Robert didn’t want the space to be divided up in the manner that it had been previously and wanted to view the whole area from the vantage of the requested deck area. My use of diminishing circles accentuates the length of the garden certainly, but helps to lead the eye down and around the garden and take in the pleasure of the planting.
Feb 15
Great Garden Umbrellas and Parasols
A funky and modern twist on the traditional garden parasol design: these can be used when the garden design is such that a traditional umbrella structured parasol might compromise the overall theme of the space. Coolaroo Shade Sails are bold, brightly colored in square and triangle shapes. It’s remarkable how one lone shade sail can …
Feb 15
Great Hammocks for the Garden
Check out these fantastic stand-alone hammocks as seen on SpotCoolStuff: Hammocks have come a long way since pre-Columbian natives in South America wove together sheets from the bark of a Hamack tree and strung them up between two poles. Hammocks today are stylishly designed, scientifically engineered and, we have to imagine, a whole lot more …
Feb 15
Website Update!!
We received some mixed feedback form our December 2008 website revision with the flash navigation and music uploading. I decided to remove the flash navigation and music altogether and changed the layout slightly to be simpler. We have retained some the great fetures of the old site including our fantastic resources page showcasing all of …









