Tag Archive: gardenimprovements.com

Feb 20

Super Sheds: Coming to Your Backyard Soon : TreeHugger

If you have one, I know you love your shed. You might not think it, know it or say it…but deep down you really cannot do without it! He

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Feb 20

Press Coverage for Nicky and GardenImprovements.com

Margaret's garden lacked any real functionality or user pleasure

You may have been fortunate enough to catch our superstar Designer and Landscaper Nicky Patterson on a live TV makeover last week. Here’s how it all happened!

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Feb 20

New Dwellings for our Feathered Friends

With so many clients wanting new and exciting features in their gardens, the team here at GardenImprovements.com thought these bird feeders are a great idea. Joe Papendick makes these cool sculptural bird feeders out of hand forged steel and other metals.He then applies a chemical to the metal to bring out it’s natural aged patina …

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Feb 20

Great Garden Design Ideas #1

First in a series of blog posts showcasing some of the great ideas out there that hel inspire our garden designs and will inspire you to get design motivated!!

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Feb 20

Indoor Gardens with Lightpot

Indoor plants are nothing new of course but here’s a pretty cool idea I saw at Just Cool Design: The “lightpot” from designers Kfir Schwalb and Orit Magia of Studio Shulab . It uses eco friendly, energy saving LED lighting to grow plants, herbs – any pot adaptable vegetation anywhere in the house. And no …

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Feb 20

Stacks of Eco-Friendly Fun for the Garden

Here at GardenImprovements.com we’re always on the lookout for funky and innovative ways to brighten up and modernise your outdoor living areas. Check out these MELLO stools- glossy, minimalist and funky looking, the bamboo poufs are stackable, come in two sizes and the many bright colours that are typical for Ekobo products.

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Feb 15

East Kilbride: Large Family Garden Design in Jackton

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The geometric shapes we’ve went for in this design really make the most out of the space available to us which is critical to the brief. We had to get a lot in here to keep the kids amused , you know the attention span they have!

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Feb 15

New-Build: Old Problems

Our dumper stuck in the mud (whilst installing drainage!!)

I am always excited by the prospect of these garden designs since the grounds are indeed left as a blank canvas and we, with the clients, can truly indulge on a personalised and bespoke design that will fit well with the client’s lifestyle aspirations and procure the most function possible from their new garden space.

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Feb 15

Lanarkshire: Tailored Driveway Design in Motherwell

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The aim of the design is to reduce the impact of the hard landscaping on the effect of the property – a traditional sandstone semi. Monoblock is certainly far too modern a material to use and the budget ruled out using traditional stone – the driveway area will be at least 110 sq m! The medium choice is the tumbled block which comes in 3 sizes and always looks handsome when installed.

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Feb 15

Modern Trellis Design for the Garden

A fantastic design for a modern garden trellis by Jayme Jenkins as seen at Nest in Style: Using steel wires this trellis is especially useful as an invisible or floating trellis for a modern or contemporary garden design where traditional trellis styles might conflict with the overall concept.  Here you can see the effect and …

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