Embedded in the heart of East London, just a few moments of the hectic, frenetic energy of the city, this sanctuary of peace is located. With a rich, lively bushes that line the edges and have plenty of space to lean and relax, this garden oasis feels a million miles from the bankers and commuters of the Liverpool Street.
The most successful ideas for the urban garden manage to grasp a feeling of the surrounding area and at the same time create a unique private space. In busy cities, it can be difficult to increase this balance and to make your garden to part of the landscape and clearly from the fast -moving feeling of the city. Somehow Charlotte Rowe managed to do exactly that in this house.
This small courtyard garden brings together modern design with a rich, lush green and is the dream escape and is still firmly in the middle of the sum. By creating various zones in this room, Charlotte was able to design a garden that was uniquely suitable for the way of life of her client. With the room to refuse and read a book in the sunshine, as well as a committed 'dance floor', this is a garden where you can live.
Before
Practically not recognizing, the previous garden left a lot to be desired.
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Worn -up fences and long successful green made the original small garden, to say the least, looked uninspiring. Fortunately, this complete shortage of existing style or personality Charlotte enabled the full creative freedom to create everything that it considered correct.
“The garden is located behind a new Bauhaus, so there was an empty canvas except a fence, which was pretty terrible,” explains Charlotte.
Part of the attractiveness of this new building style is the possibility of completely reinventing the home owner the room, which makes it a completely unique reflection of his own taste. They are free of the pressure to adapt to existing functions and designs of the former inmates and receive an open ticket for the complete aesthetic exploration. This approach also applies to the interior of a new build as well as for the outdoor area. By taking over this approach, you can create a feeling of continuity and river between these two rooms.
As Charlotte explains: “The garden is very small, so we decided that it works as an extension of the living room inside.”
By framing the garden as a continuation of the living room, the illusion of a more expansive space for both areas is created.
After
Due to the increase in some sections, Charlotte was able to create different zones in this garden.
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With many different seating areas to choose from as well as a standing shower outdoors and a slim breakfast bar, this petite garden creates all the functions that you can wish for, into a professionally designed courtyard. It is a real master class about how you can get the best out of the pitch.
One of the best ways to do this is to zon the space, as Charlotte seamlessly did in this design. “We had to break up the room in 'zones',” explains Charlotte, “and it was an unusual form. To create these specific areas, it had to contain different levels.”
These separate zones, which worked according to their customers' specific inquiries, contributed to creating a feeling of distinction between each section.
“They wanted a breakfast bar, a fireplace with comfortable seating and a shower outdoors,” she says.
“The atmosphere we wanted to create was comfortable and cozy. That is why we decided to create different 'zones' by sinking the fireplace outdoors and the day bed and placing the shower and breakfast on an upper level, which made it possible for us to create a 'dance floor' on the upper level. The customers were big party people!”
By emphasizing the unusual structure of the chimney, he makes this fireplace a striking architectural feature.
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In the background of the garden there is a strikingly modern fireplace, the perfect accompaniment to the sunken fireplace area at the front.
“Such fireplaces are a characteristic of many of our gardens,” notes Charlotte.
“This has an unusual chimney that is highlighted, and we only thought that it looked good. A decisive factor is that the garden is in shape, so that the fireplace was placed in parallel to the house and was not brought into line with the limit of the final limit, so that it is a visual and actual walls that look into the everyday area.”
This placement enables the fireplace to act as a tool in order to make this urban garden privately and to protect it from the eyes of the neighbors, while the striking design also brings a strong visual attraction for the feature.
The lush, lively green around the outdoor shower contributes to the tropical feeling.
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For this tropical oasis feeling, a slim, steel -related shower outdoors in this garden gives an additional paradisiacal note. This outdoor shower is far from being in London Homes another example of how Charlotte integrated the identity of its customers into this design.
“One of our customers is a Brazilian and a party person, so he thought to do a shower (with our suggestion was not cold), is a good thing to do,” comments Charlotte. “Maybe he didn't completely appreciate the cold English winter!”
Cleverly placed lighting gives this garden a warm glow in the evening.
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With cast concrete tile floors, wooden fences and a polished concrete table, there was a risk that this garden became too strong or cold. However, Charlotte avoids this problem by introducing a lavish selection of deeply rich and lively green and brings life and joy into the garden.
The combination of these elegant, modern materials and the wildness of the plants surrounding them enables a nuanced and balanced garden design.
“As with all city gardens, it is important that the plants work hard all year round, but we not only plant evergreen plants, and we have combined the climbers and shrubs with shady -tolerant plants such as ferns,” explains Charlotte.
The dark gray painted wooden fence is a number of climbers.
“They are climbers, not vines and they are of crucial importance in a small garden, since they provide additional” green “and margin interest and look particularly good in front of a dark background as in this garden,” says Charlotte.
This project shows how a small urban garden can do. With the essence of a back yard, we combine the most stylish modern garden ideas. This is a garden that we happily thrown away in the summer days.