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A patio that looks bigger than it is ...

What is needed?

When you build a conservatory into your established garden the balance can so easily be wrecked.  The patio usually gets lost, the circulation routes change and the investment in the conservatory remains to be returned.  You need to get the balance back. In this instance only a small part of the original patio is left - storing the slabs that were taken up when the new conservatory was built.  The quadrant pebbled area is now disproportionately large, the stored slabs pinch the space horribly and there is no comfortable way into the grassed garden.  The loss of balance is acute and a restoring redesign is desperately needed.

The view  from the kitchen window is cluttered and unattractive. The slabs are large (600x900) and, as can be seen, laid square to the building. At the request of the client the slabs are to be reused in the project.

What is to be proposed?

The floor tiles used in the new conservatory were laid on the diagonal, and so to help connect the inside and outside spaces the reused concrete slabs will be also laid diagonally. This will visually broaden the patio and will define the edge of the extended patio.  This pushes into the rising lawn and will thus offer the chance of a neat retaining wall with a lovely split level water feature. The view from the kitchen will be opened up and the space will be dressed out by the client with pots and furniture.

What was done?

5 days of friendly December weather transformed the tight space into a comfortable area that, come the spring, will become set around with planted pots that flows with the conservatory into and around the garden. The water feature will be set off by a backdrop of small shrubs in the new flower beds that will form a low separating boundary beyond which the garden will beckon you to explore via the new steps.
The balance is back !	Simon and Melv promise each other a pint after another rewarding collaboration.

Happy Clients?
"Very happy, thank you - the water feature is really nice and we're looking forward to planting the beds in the spring and achieving the vision of your design."

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