A beautiful sandstone barn conversion blessed with ample gardens and field with beautiful views of the rolling hills beyond.  The existing garden was sat to lawn and featureless.  This young family were keen to create a dining terrace and a separate relaxed seating terrace, a garden studio, and inner garden for the young children.  The master plan incorporated the wider paddock for creating habitats and children play areas and adventures.

The inner garden scheme is about a contemporary and luxurious dining and seating space immersed in planting to enjoy the views and sun.   This involved significantly extending the existing top terrace, enclosing the top terrace from the neighbours with a new wall which was clad with horizontal timbers.  This terrace included an outdoor kitchen with a contemporary glass balustrade for wind protection.  A planting bed was also part of this top terrace to soften the new wall.  This terrace then led down a few contemporary designed staggered steps to a relaxed seating terrace on the south-facing bank, surrounded by lush planting.   The staggered steps continued to the lawned garden and further down to a newly built lower terrace and retaining wall.

The bank planting is lush with various species of ornamental grasses, perennials with flowers in blue, purples, whites and pinks as well as some multi-stem small trees.