Rear Garden Rejuvenation

This rear garden had been given no love or attention for a long time.  This small space had mainly been used as a play area for the clients children.  However as the children are both growing up and no longer need a garden to play in , the clients wanted to reclaim it!

An awkward and meanly sized second terrace interrupted the feeling of the garden and created more un useable space shrinking the garden further.

Natural stone paving with brick on edge was used to revitalise the old patio.  The area where the raised terrace used to be was re leveled, allowing for an area to locate the BBQ away from the main dining terrace.  Throughout the rest of the garden the shrubs were trimmed up and flower beds had a mushroom compost mix added.  Edges were re defined thanks to the laying of a new lawn.

(Don't worry the football goal etc was re homed to the garage)

Bring Me The Horizion - Suicide Season

Bring Me The Horizion - Suicide Season

Bring Me The Horizion - Suicide Season - Cut Up

.....Its a girl!

Paige Wilcock -Born Wednesday 19.05.2010 6.1lb

Congratulations to my friends Dan and Becky on their beautiful little baby girl, nice one guys!

Garden Design & Construction West Sussex - Boi Project

A 3 story town house with North facing garden in West Sussex. Apart from early morning and late evening sun this garden is prodominantly in shade, cast from the house.  Due to this the lawn was patchy and would hold water for long periods of time.  The client was looking for a paved area to allow for better evening dining, and due to lengthy stays away from the home, was also looking for something with minimum maintenance.

The lawn was replaced with Indian Sandstone Paving, and close to the house a new drainage system was installed to collect and control the water run off.

A small town garden

The clients were looking to replace their old patio that had sunk and broken up over a number of years.  Being a small town garden we reduced the patio in size slightly as it was dominating the garden.  This also allowed the clients children a bit more valuable playing space. 

We replaced with a new natural stone paving to give the area a cleaner and more modern feel.  A recess cover was installed to allow to an un sightly manhole to be hidden in the lawn.
A new panel fence was also erected to replace and old fence that had seen better days.

Quit while your ahead...again!

TH Garden & Landscape Design...modern day hero?

Hello to all and Happy Easter. Spring is finally here! This is a just a quick blog to highlight the latest advertising campaign aimed at raising my company profile....my friends thought it would be a good idea and thanks for all their efforts! Please click on the link below and take 2 minutes out of your busy schedules to enjoy this video!

Bon Appetito!

http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1270830808406RA79

Thomas Houghton Garden & Landscape Design,West Sussex

Sustainability bubbles....

The perfect partnership!

This week my new toy arrived..... in the form of a 3D Connexion mouse. To to be used in conjunction with popular 3D modeling programs such as Vectorworks Landmark and Google Sketchup. What are the benefits I hear you ask, well here are three reasons to make you consider buying one....

1.Increase Productivity: When working with one hand, you can either navigate your model or select commands. With a 3D mouse you can do both at once saving you valuable time.
2.Enhanced Comfort: Up to 50% fewer mouse clicks by spreading the workload across both hands.
3.Design Performance: Whether you’re working on a sketch or a complex 3D model, the superior navigation experience encourages levels of model exploration that are crucial to avoiding frustrating and costly design errors.

3D Connexion Mouse - http://www.3dconnexion.co.uk
Google Sketchup - http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en_uk/

Project Two Complete

Project 2 finito!Status update..awaiting final marks for Project 2, Timlines and Hardlandscape/Bespoke Portfolio

Project 2 Part 1 Complete Colour scans

As promised a couple of months ago here are the colour scans of my Project 2 work....still waiting to recieve my mark hopefully sometime this week. Enjoy.

Vectorworks 2010 Hard Landscape Portfolio

Happy New Year to all!

As the hangovers clear, and the sun sets after a beautiful day in the South of England we well and truly bid farewell to 2009. As Helena Riste said..."2010 is going to be the year of the designer", and we all look forward to the forth coming designs and trends both in garden and jewellery design! Happy New Year to all from everyone at Thomas Houghton Garden & Landscape Design.

Project 1 complete and marked

Project one is all complete! The marking has been been done and I am pleased to say i got 78/100. As promised here are the colour copies for you to all take a look at! enjoy!

Project 2 has also now been surveyed so keep checking back to see updates of how the design is coming on!

Week 8 Project 1 complete

It is the end of Week 8 and Project 1 is complete. All presentations have been made and the work is now in for marking. Colour scans are being made and my work and will be on here hopefully within the next week or two. Will put up a new posting when they arrive! Only other thing to say is...... bring on project 2!!

Week 5 already!!

So the weeks are flying by, and the work is piling on. Our first site survey of a real clients garden is complete, now onto the design process. Critique on Friday could have gone better, i lost my shapes! However, after forgetting about building the garden and some re-designing over the weekend, a significantly stronger design has flourished! Pictures will follow shortly. Also Oxford College of Garden Design was on Radio 1 over the weekend thanks to a little txt I sent. Hopefully the link below will work and you can hear for yourselves! Hb my main man heard it live while building his wall at home, nice one mate! Mmmmbaa!

Week one all done!

My first week in Oxford is over already, it has gone so quickly! Yesterday I finished my card relief homework. Ben Nicholson eat your heart out!! Check out the pictures below. Other exciting news, Steffania finally managed to fill alex up with a Zafferon risotto! Yum yum! Also, while cycling Oxfords canal Sunday we saw a cute little dog on top of a barge!

My post graduate course in Residential Landscape Design

Hi everyone! This week I started my course in Residential Landscape Design at the Oxford College of Garden Design.