Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Our Landscaping Story 167Aug 22, 2011 8:01 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Our Landscaping Story 169Aug 22, 2011 8:25 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Our Landscaping Story 171Aug 22, 2011 8:55 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Our Landscaping Story 173Aug 22, 2011 9:15 pm Eager everything looks great! Well done. With your deck how wide are your boards if you don't mind me asking-they look a bit wider than the norm. We are planning on having the wider boards for our deck. Re: Our Landscaping Story 174Aug 22, 2011 9:40 pm Thanks mate! Decking boards are Merbau, 140mm wide. Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 176Aug 24, 2011 10:41 am Looks great - very jealous ... I'd love a deck but don't think we'll be having one For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Our Landscaping Story 177Aug 24, 2011 5:24 pm Eager Thanks mate! Decking boards are Merbau, 140mm wide. Sweet we are getting the same width too. Re: Our Landscaping Story 178Aug 28, 2011 8:22 pm I've now finished putting the LinkEdge permanently in place. Everything inside of it will be lawn, everything outside of it will be either pebbles or paved path or garden covered in the same pebbles anyway! I also took the easy way out to raise the area where the bins sit by plonking down pavers on top of what was already there (in very wet weather it used to flood there). This has now given me a datum for the rest of that portion of the yard regarding soil and path levels etc. I now have to dig out the grassed area between the Linkedge and the gates; that area will be just pebbles soon - it was difficult to maintain an even slope there with pavers because of the required clearance for the gates to open and the fall of the land and I ended up with steps and it looked sh!th0use - and I have already removed some of the pavers that were there to use under the bins. Pics! LinkEdge in and rougfhly backfilled. The kennel will also be modified with a new pitched roof to give more clearance past it: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bins sitting high and mighty, and some pavers removed. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Next, the aforementioned ground will be dug out to make way for pebbles, a frame put up next to the bins for screening to go on which will continue along the fence to the deck (I'm thinking of the flat slat bamboo stuff), installing more pavers to widen the path, soil delivered, plants to go in (thinking of a giant Bird of Paradise with a smaller one next to it, in the corner next to the proposed screen next to the bins, some Lady Palms, not sure what else), a replication of the garden on the other side of the deck to this side of it, and pebbles galore! Geoff - Decophile. Re: Our Landscaping Story 179Aug 29, 2011 9:24 am Sounds like a plan! For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Our Landscaping Story 180Sep 18, 2011 8:39 pm More progress. I have now finished the extra column of pavers, DS has finished the structural mods to the kennel, the pebbles are now spread in front of the gates after the grass was removed and also placed on the deck side gardens, and I also re-laid some other pavers around the place that were a bit low. Many thanks to Glen from local builders KB Living for giving me permission to take a wheelbarrow full of sand from a house being built just around the corner so I could use it as a base for the pavers. Still to do is a frame to screen off the bins, some bamboo screening for the fence, and a garden along there too. Completed path and a pile of leftover pebbles which will go on the proposed garden: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Pebbles in front of the gate to the bins. This whole area has been effectively raised 40mm which will help tremendously in wet weather. I still have to get rid of the sods: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The deck side gardens: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We’ve utilised the new deck extension to good effect this weekend too. It has given us so much versatility, which was the aim, because we can move the furniture around at will to capture the sun etc. I even had a nap out there today! Geoff - Decophile. Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8461 We bought land in Tallawong Schofields NSW size 30m X 12.5m and planning to get double story house build around 350 sqm. We are thinking about having premium inclusions… 0 4086 Hmmm, I have checked your past posts and it seems that you are in NSW, not WA as I had thought. It pays to show your State in your avatar. Retaining wall regulations… 5 7850 |