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1. Contemporary Family Garden - Design Vs Practicality

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1. Contemporary Family Garden - Design Vs Practicality (Image 1 of 8)

The trick with a family garden is to create a design that not only looks good but is incredibly practical. After all, a garden needs to cater to the needs of you, your children and your friends. This means a combination of surfaces to deal with the various activities it will be subjected to, not forgetting planting to add interest, shade and perhaps even as a source of food (and learning for the children). How to create this? Ideally, you'd have a big enough space, as in this garden, to fit in everything on your wish list. However, even a smaller space can be made to measure.

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wow...thank u

Posted by sara on 19/10/2009 10:59:09

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hi i love the show

Posted by chris on 25/03/2009 19:00:05

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Please could you give me some advice on rendering. We are planning a side extension to our kitchen, its not going to be a big build however it will make a huge differnce to inside. * 4 meters will be 3 frameless glass windows from ceiling to floor level (2.5 meters high) * there will be 2 pillars either side and a beam going across all in rendered concrete bricks * the roof will be made of 3 panels of frameless glass which will be in line with the window panels, either side again concrete blocks going up to the upstairs bedroom window(quite a steep angle) * Our architects have designed a hidden box for the guttering (as we do not want any guttering on show) * the concrete blocks will be rendered and painted a butter milk colour (our garden has a contemporary ibiza style feel, so the extension will hopefully match those elements) Our query is we want a simple sleek look to the extension and we have been told by our architect that the rendering will require some type of "copping", to protect the rendering and concrete, which we appreicate, however we feel this will totally ruin the look we are after, do you have any other ideas or advice on this matter. Thank you * *

Posted by Marie Jackson on 18/02/2009 21:32:52

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