Services

Landscape Design

Living Rooms specialise in creating, beautiful and easy to maintain gardens to match your lifestyle and your budget. Whether you are after an outdoor area to entertain family and friends or just somewhere to sit and relax, we can help you add a unique "living room" to your home.

Every Living Rooms design is presented in clearly set out, easy to read drawings and specifications that show you or your professional landscaper exactly where each wall, planter box, pot, paved area, deck and plant will go.
Understanding the special needs of children, pets, allergy sufferers and the needs of the plants themselves is critical to making a garden safe, easy to maintain and beautiful. To find the balance needed for a truly great design you must be both a talented designer and an experienced Horticulturist. Fortunately, when you are working with Living Rooms Landscape Designs you get both.

Project Management of Installation and Construction

Having a garden professionally designed doesn't mean that it has to be professionally built. For many people, the joy of owning a garden comes from having created it themselves. If however, supervising a landscape construction team and ordering truck loads of materials sounds a bit much for you to handle, don't worry. Living Rooms can supervise the whole construction process from start to finish.

Pre-sale Garden Makeovers

Maximising the appeal of your property is the easiest way to ensure a quick and easy sale. Many properties offered for sale today have undergone some recent improvement of the building in order to maximise their potential return. Often sellers forget that the appearance of a garden, courtyard or balcony can have a dramatic impact on the perception of a prospective buyer and the price they are willing to pay.
Many people find it hard to envisage how much more appealing a property will look once overgrown plants are pruned, the paving is clean and even and the garden beds and planters are freshly mulched and contain attractive healthy plants.
This is where Living Rooms can help you to achieve the highest possible return on sale day. We can:
  • Provide useful, practical and cost effective advice for preparation of a property sale or rental
  • Put right the 'wear and tear', in your garden to bring your property back up to scratch
  • Prune and renovate existing plants and garden beds
  • Add new plantings and garden features such as seating, paving and garden ornaments
Coordinating and managing a garden makeover can be time consuming and stressful - partially when juggling all of the other aspects of selling a property. Living Rooms Landscape Designs make the process as simple and painless as possible by providing an end-to-end solution that matches your timescale and your budget.

Garden Renovations

Eventually every garden needs to undergo a rejuvenation or renovation process. Some plants go passed their "use by dates" whilst others grow and change shape to form new areas of light and shade. All of these changes mean that a garden can eventually outgrown its original design and require some attention in order to look its best.
Living Rooms Landscape Designs can help guide you through the renovation process by:
  • Developing a renovation plan that is in keeping with garden function and site peculiarities - soil type, aspect and slope etc.
  • Identifying those plants that have outlived their role and those that can be moved or pruned to fulfil a new role
  • Replacing sun-loving plants with those that prefer shade in mature areas of the garden
  • Restoring colour and interest to the garden with the use of focal plants, sculpture and hard landscaping features
  • Returning vitality to trees, shrubs, beds and lawns by using appropriate fertilizers and mulching techniques
  • Designing or modify an existing irrigation system to suit the needs of the plants being watered
Living Rooms can advise you and help you to renovate your own garden or we can manage the entire process for you from start to finish.

Horticultural Consulting and Problem Solving

Is something not quite right in your garden?

Living Rooms' qualified horticulturist Lisa Ginns has over a decade of experience in the combined fields of Landscape Design, Landscape Construction and Landscape Maintenance and can help you to solve almost any problem in your garden.
Lisa can combine any of the following techniques with her extensive horticulture and general knowledge to identify and resolve problems in your garden:
  • Pest and disease identification and management
  • Site analysis - including slope and aspect assessment
  • Soil analysis - including pH testing and soil composition analysis
  • Plant species selection to suit your garden
  • Plant maintenance and management - including pruning, fertilizing and watering
  • Irrigation system testing and re-design

Lisa can also help you by preparing a garden management plan that sets out a calendar and schedule of activities that should be undertaken to keep your garden at its best.