The Dusty

Working closely with our clients throughout all stages of this project, the main requirements were to open up this sloping block and create an unobstructed feel to the front of the property when viewed from the main bedroom and living areas, all while ensuring privacy and also street appeal.

With an already landscaped backyard with space for the kids and entertaining, our focus is on creating a pocket of tranquility, a space that is welcoming, with texture and depth. This space needs to be aesthetically pleasing from a 270 degree view, with no set front or back.

Location

Castle Hill, NSW

Scope

Landscape design

Landscape construction

Property maintenance

Year completed

2019

Photographer

Kel Bush

Backyard with manicured lawn, plants, and stone retaining walls.

A primary feature of this project is the Canary Island Date Palm, which was to be featured and be heavily integrated into the design.

Backyard patio with seating area, garden beds, and plants.

Garden pathway surrounded by greenery and small trees.

Modern house with landscaped front yard and palm trees.

Front yard with stone walls, shrubs, and ornamental plants

The design of ‘The Dusty’ showcases a series of 5 evenly tiered retaining walls that each act as individual garden pods, with each one different to the next, while blending and overflowing into each other, all set around the gorgeous expanding canopy of the Canary Island Date Palm. There is a real sense of continuity and harmony in this design through the repetition of these pods.

Front yard with stone walls, shrubs, and trees.

Front yard with driveway, lawn, and landscaped plants near the house

Stone pathway with surrounding garden beds and green shrubs.

Matt has great design ideas, his vision is unsurpassable, and his team are so thorough with precision workmanship, friendliness and professionalism they completed a fantastic overhaul to the bare front of my home of weeds and rock into a magnificent and practical show piece.

— Alison

Front yard with landscaped garden beds, shrubs, and stone walls.

Landscaped garden with a large palm tree, stone planter walls, green shrubs, and a paved pathway.

Backyard patio area with seating, greenery, and stone pathways.

The harsh lines are softened by the sandstone cladding and overflowing foliage, with the 5th tier, and the tier closest to the house, having a large sweeping curve, to soften these angles and assist further with opening up the space when viewed from the house.

Take a look at the before photos.