Category Archives: exterior design

interview with sharon harris

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As one of our experts appearing in-store,  Sharon Harris from ‘Harris Parnell Garden Design’ was kind enough to take a few moments recently and answer a few questions for us… Describe your style. My style varies as our motto is ʻCreating Individual Gardensʼ. We donʼt really have any one particular style and pride ourselves on [...]
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eccentric and playful

Hundertwasser in New Zealand in 1998 - wikipedia.org/
I thought I would give the late, ‘eccentric and playful Viennese artist’ and architect ‘Friedensreich Hundertwasser’ a quick plug. From what I can gather he was an outspoken individual that worked across a variety of design mediums, writing manifestos, designing posters and stamps and traveling to places such as Morroco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia [...]
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the ol’garden shed

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Whether it be a place you store a few of those rusty gardening tools, your workshop retreat or a forever growing storage area, I’m sure we can all agree our humble little backyard dwellings leave much to be desired. But don’t be disheartened, there are many ways to improve this outdoor space!  How about a [...]
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unity, function, simplicity and scale

Donnell Garden - The deck with oaks - By Cara Ruppert - Flickr
I have recently begun reading a great book on the late Thomas Church called ‘Gardens are for People’, first published in 1955. Thomas Church in my eyes is one of the leading Landscape Architects of the past 100 years. He studied at both Berkley and Harvard University and later in the 1930′s started up his [...]
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a Swiss woodie

Tree Museum by Enzo Enea- Photography by Martin Rütschi ©
An open-air tree museum located on 10ha of land near Lake Zurich has just opened it doors. This open-air museum is the brainchild of well know Landscape Architect ‘Enzo Enea’ and showcases an array of trees he has collected over the past 17 years. I personally love to stroll around the MCA or the Art [...]
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new urban solutions

L-A-V-A- Ideal Home
After reading Claudia Perren’s review on the Home – Real and Ideal exhibition in Architecture Australia, I jumped online to the Boutwell Draper Gallery to see the participating nineteen Architects and nineteen Artists and their take on the brief –‘Urban Solutions’. With a variety of inspiring futuristic structures and some really conceptual models, I started [...]
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outdoor curtains?

outdoor curtains
So we’re into outdoor design, no surprises there. We do concrete pavers, bluestone pavers, wall cladding, granite – whatever natural flooring and walling you’re into, I’m sure we can help you. But outdoor curtains? >  What the? We saw these pics over at Yellowtrace [which by the way is a great site if you haven't [...]
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an exterior illusion

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“Deformscape” is a recent project from Thom Faulders, founder of  Faulders Studio, an architecture company from the US. The project is in fact an interesting outdoor pattern that was created in order to bring something fresh to a house in San Francisco. We quote from the designer’s website: “This limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits [...]
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