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Brief: A new extension to the rear of the property required building out into the existing sloping garden. The remaining site needed to be levelled to create terraces for outdoor eating and entertaining, a sunny seating area with summer house, lawns and planting for structure, colour and screening.
The existing site had a 2.5m drop from the rear of the garden to the house and required extensive retaining walls across and to the sides of the garden to create the level areas.
Conditions during the build were difficult with mud, frost, snow and waterlogging prolonging the build.
Design: The main retaining wall was pushed back and offset to allow sufficient space immediately outside the house for a dining terrace. Wide brick and paved steps ascend to a gravel path bisecting the lawn and leading to the upper terrace with its sunny seating area outside the summer house. Planting surrounds the terraces and over time will soften the retaining walls and boundaries to create an attractive and practical garden on several different levels.
