Outdoor Design

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Australia is home to a vast array of talented, highly skilled landscape architects and landscape designers who can create a unique garden that will be individually tailored to the way you want to live ■

Presented by Outdoor Design, the NSW Landscape of the Year Awards celebrate residential design innovation and construction excellence. On the following pages we showcase the entrants in the 2022 awards ■

Claudia Crawley, a residential landscape designer and co-founder of Grindstone Landscapes, a design and construction business, is a multiple award winner with a passion for contemporary garden design. Claudia believes a great garden design is balance

Each of the state-based landscape associations hosts a regular awards program to recognise its members’ design and construction skills. Here we look at just some of the latest residential landscaping winners ■

Having designed your new garden, the next step is to turn it into the ideal outdoor living space by selecting the right furniture, lighting, heating, decking, shade, decor and more ■

“In recent years, home builders and renovators have been opting for a style that better suits the Australian climate and way of life. Today, houses have more open areas and most are designed to flow to outdoor living spaces. To maximise these alfresc

• Create places to sit with outdoor lounges or armchairs. Use scatter cushions to finish. If you have a large garden, it’s nice to create lots of different zones for mingling and relaxing. Mix it up with some sun lounges, pod sets, or garden benches

Heating an entertaining space is about more than keeping warm on a cold winter’s day or chasing away the chill of a crisp autumn evening. Today, our decks, pergolas, cabanas and patios are used as outdoor rooms. As a consequence, aesthetics and ambie

An outdoor blind is a smart way to make your balcony or patio more usable and comfortable — not to mention add value to your home. You can choose from a clear PVC cafe-style blind or a tinted mesh-type shade. Clear blinds give you the benefits of an

For those seeking a shade solution with a sculptural quality, the shade sail is the answer. By using a series of sails to cover a space, by overlapping the corners of two sails, or by using a combination of both high and low fixing points, you can cr

In most cases, lighter colours tend to make an area appear larger so if you want to make the space look and feel a bit bigger, choose paler colours. But if the mood strikes you, choose an awning in a bold block colour or vivid stripes. You can also f