Widcombe · Bath
A family garden with places to disappear into.
A long garden reorganised around everyday family life: eating outside, children moving through it and adults having somewhere quieter at the far end.
The brief
What the garden needed to do.
Keep enough lawn for everyday family use
Create a larger dining area close to the kitchen
Give the far end of the garden a reason to be used
Make planting feel generous without narrowing the main routes
The challenge
The lawn-dominated layout made the garden feel narrower than it was and left the far end disconnected from the house.
Our response
A gently shifting path now pulls the eye diagonally through the plot, linking a generous dining terrace, open lawn, softer central planting and a tucked-away seat beneath existing trees. The route is deliberately informal so children can move through the garden without every space feeling prescribed.
PaletteClay pavers · lawn · native hedging · flowering perennials · timber seating
The finished garden
A space that looks better because it works better.
The garden still works simply for family life, but it now has depth. You move through different atmospheres instead of seeing the entire plot in one glance from the back door.
That is the test we use on every project: the garden should be easier to understand, more useful day to day and more connected to the property than it was before.
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