Thank you for your interest in our garden design service

Your detailed brief will enable us to start the design process. The brief comprises the following elements:

1 - Completed design brief
2 - Photos of your garden as it is now
3 - Inspiration photos for your new garden
4 - Specific measurements of your current garden

 
 

The Garden Design process

1. Firstly, the brief stage - the client brief includes the new garden design questionnaire, measurements of your garden, photos of your current garden and images of what you like/ ideas you have for your new garden design. We appreciate that this is a lot of information which takes time to get together but it is essential so that the designer has everything they need to design your new garden perfectly. If you need help with the measuring let us know and we can send someone to your house.

2. Designing - The client brief is passed onto the garden designer who will carefully study all the information to ensure that as well as looking beautiful, your new garden will meet your every need.

3. Your garden layout plan - Your new garden design will be presented as a 2D garden layout plan and you should receive this within 4 weeks from payment. There is an opportunity for one round of tweaks to the design.

 
 

How to measure your garden

Do a simple line drawing of the birds-eye view of your garden showing all features which are to remain (shed/trees/existing patios).
This does not have to be to scale and can be done on graph or plain paper.  We require two sets of measurements from you, so you will need two copies of the line drawing with measurements as follows:

  1. Triangular  
    PLUS
    2. EITHER Linear OR Running

    All measurements to be in metres to 2 decimal places eg 10.34m. If you have coloured pens even better!

 
 

1. Triangular

Triangulation is used as a method of working out the exact position of a shed/tree or fence line. Make sure you always triangulate from the house to the object you want to measure, the house is always the fixed point.

2. Linear

Measurements in BLUE are overall lengths.
Measurements in RED are object measurements (house/shed).
Measurements in GREEN are of the distance of objects (shed/tree) in the garden from a fixed point.

2. Running

Running measurements are used indicate position of features along a vertical surface such as a house or garage wall. Features to include would be windows, doors downpipes, taps, gullies and any other features of interest.

What needs to be included in the survey

Things that are remaining, ignore everything else:

  • House: windows, doors, gullies, downpipes, external taps

  • Boundaries: how high and what/where are they?

  • Outbuildings: doors windows what is the outbuilding? (shed/greenhouse/etc)

  • Access points & features: gates, existing garden features, trees and plants to remain

  • Services to the property and within the garden, manhole covers, cesspits, oil tanks etc.