Category Archives: Outdoor Design Tips

Outdoor mirrors are such fabulous features in garden spaces you want to make sure you get one that looks perfect on the wall where it’s hung. Because outdoor walls come in all shapes and sizes there can’t be a ‘one size fits all’ solution to choosing a mirror for your space.BUT if you want to […]

  As a kid I used to get up long before my parents, often just to watch the birds as they started their day. The small brown sparrows were my favourite, mainly because they’d hop about happily eating any breadcrumbs I threw on the dewy grass in New Zealand. One morning, I hatched a plan […]

How borrowing  from your neighbour’s landscape design can bring out the best  in yours. When Doug and Nancy came looking for garden decor for their courtyard wall they were after a mirror that would reflect the views from their outdoor living deck. Looking at their photos, it was easy to see the potential to get […]

When faced with the problem of how to block the view of a neighbouring carport built right against the boundary fence of their courtyard garden, the owners of a terrace apartment in Sydney’s Woollahra thought a wall featuring an outdoor mirror might be the solution. The apartments’ owners, Richard and Dawn, found what they hoped […]

Occasionally I get requests that seem a bit over the top, like when a client in Perth wanted a mirror frame painted with a colour accent so that it matched a very specific piece of artwork inside their Cottesloe home.The client knew what she wanted so we needed to create the perfect shade of verdigris […]

Want to make over an apartment courtyard but body corporate restrictions make you think you can’t do much? – just don’t give up and do nothing.In city apartments around Australia body corporate rules can restrict the styling of courtyards. They can even stop you fixing things into the balcony spaces right outside your own door. […]