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A Bushy Family Home That Brings The Outdoors In

How do you design a house that’s not about a house at all? In fact, one that’s all about what’s around the house? The owners of a run-down weatherboard cottage on a 5-acre plot of semi-rural land in Whitebridge, New South Wales engaged Anthrosite to find out exactly how it could be done.

Bordering a conservation area and secluded beach on one side, and a highway on the other, the site itself posed significant challenges to building a relaxing family home. The new house needed to shelter its inhabitants from the noise of traffic AND frame the beautiful natural aspect beyond. A clean materials palette, clever orientation and ingenious layout devised around an outdoor room ticked all the boxes!

'Rosy Posy' Smoothie – The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog.

Well known nutritionist and author Lola Berry is back today with another super tasty and ridiculously easy smoothie recipe from her new book, Lola Berry’s Little Book of Smoothies & Juices.

Lola’s ‘Rosy Posy’ smoothie combines strawberries with rosewater and fresh vanilla for a supremely sweet and deliciously perfumed treat!

 

A Sophisticated Japanese + Danish Inspired Melbourne Garden

There comes a time in most family homes where the outdoor play equipment is outgrown, and the surrounding garden is in need of a little TLC. It was at this familiar stage that Kate Seddon Landscape Design was brought on to design a Hawthorn garden for a growing family and their now young adult children.

Kate’s design sees a disused trampoline and spa replaced with a sophisticated planting and material scheme, inspired by both Japanese and Danish gardens. This lush and inviting outdoor area is now a seasonally changing retreat for the owners, representing a new phase in their family’s life.

The Best Landscape Design Projects of the TDF Awards Revealed

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Mud Office – New Street, Brighton

Mud Office have created this generous private residential garden in Melbourne’s bayside, designed to accommodate a kids play space, kitchen garden, and characteristic Brighton icon – the Canary Island Palm. The elegance of the home is reflected in the generous, dramatic landscaping, that incorporates a bluestone cobbled driveway, club house, weeping elm and bespoke copper tap for water play. Garden beds provide links between different zones, including a kitchen garden that runs along the northern side of the home.

Clapham Landscape Architecture – The Enchanted Garden

Landscape architecture as an invitational gesture – this garden by Clapham Landscape Architecture welcomes visitors to the Yarra Bend development by following the curve of the river, and creating a lush secluded environment. Pedestrians and cyclists enter the new precinct in Alphington to a site of native flora and fauna. The sounds of the local river are played throughout the site to enhance the sensory experience.

Mud Office, New Street BrightonPhoto – Shannon McGrath.


Clapham Landscape Architecture, The Enchanted Garden. Photo – Alex Reinders.

 


Phillip Withers Landscape Design, Portsea Garden. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.


Kate Seddon Landscape, Pavilion Courtyard. Photo – Rob Blackburn Photography.


Mud Office, Waterdale Road. Photo – Erik Holt.


Alexandra Farrington & Alfalfa Landscape Architecture + Design, East Pilbara Arts Centre. Photo – Rob Frith.


Rush Wright Architects, Victoria Comprehensive Cancer Council. Photo – Michael Wright.


Openwork & MUIR Architecture, Doubleground. Photo – Peter Bennetts.


Lisa Ellis Gardens, The Eastern Terrace. Photo – Erik Holt.


Elizabeth Prater, The Sir George. Photo – Rachael Lenehan.

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