Your Home and Garden

Step in time

ow to create a garden that H would meet the needs of a young family without compromising the elegant, clean lines of a mid-century-designed house?

This was the question facing landscape designer Ben Shearer of Shearer Design when asked by repeat clients Allison and Jeremy to take a look at their new home in the inner-city Auckland suburb of Herne Bay. Taking his cues from the simple, geometric shapes

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