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Garden Design Issues: An Apprentice’s View

When Nicky informed me that i would be sending off my own design and presentation I was a tad nervous about the outcome to say the least! It didn’t help that the garden I would be designing for was a very strange shape and quite large. When doing practise designs I found it alot easier to come up with ideas for smaller gardens, so this was the first stumbling block!

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Daybeds: Great Garden Furniture

These fantastic garden daybeds certainly inspire us to design gardens to put them in and I’m hoping that by showing them here as demonstrated at FreshHome they might inspire you guys to get us to draft you up some fantastic

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Renfrewshire: Orbital Garden Design in Elderslie

A better look at the primary seating area shows that it can easily accommodate a table and chairs, and with the secondary seating area sufficient enough for a bench there’s no chance of running out of entertaining space!

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Bags of Colour for the Garden

Do you remember those retro beanbags from the 1960’s?  Well, Fatboy, a company started in 1998 by Jukka Setälä in Finland, designs beanbags for the 21st century.  Depending on your mood, Fatboy has 11 different styles and colours to satisfy

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