Tim Matcham Garden Design » Property

Gardening | Garden Design | The garden that sells the house

Tim Matcham — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:03:43 +0000

An article in todays Daily Telegraph by Maria Fitzpatrick shows how a well designed garden can add value both to your life and the value of your property. Whilst this may be obvious for a larger garden it is also true of smaller gardens. Several of the gardens that I have designed have done just exactly this for the owners.

Gardens can be designed to meet the exacting needs of their owners and this makes the possibilities really exciting – when looking at before and after photos you start to get the picture!

Here is a garden completed last year.

Much better use of space:-

More inspiring, lower maintenance and adding value to the property

Invest in your garden and change your life for the better – you know it makes sense!

Tim is a garden designer based in Wiltshire who is passionate about making the most of your outdoor space

Gardening | Garden Design | Enjoy your garden

Tim Matcham — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:22:50 +0000

Designing gardens gives me great pleasure. I have a passion about getting the most out of a space and watching the garden develop over time.

This however pales into complete insignificance when the people who get most excited about the garden is the the people whose garden it is! when their friends and family also get excited about it then that is a huge bonus too.

I have recently been working on a project which started as a complete ‘bomb site’. You could barely see the garden for stone, rubble and general mess.

The Before Shot

Working on a project like this you develop a great relationship with the owners and watch their delight as things progress. They are doing much of the work themselves but call upon me as required to help with plants and other advice. My latest visit showed some dramatic developments and wildly enthusiastic owners!

Great progress!

They are getting so much value from this and who wouldn’t? Projects like this show just how much value you can get out of a well designed garden that reflects your requirements. Often the comment comes back that ideas that are presented are far beyond anything that they would have dreamed of. The beauty of it is that it will continue to develop and change. Delighting all that have the pleasure of making its acquaintance.

How will you use your conservatory? | Guest Blog from Helen Silver of The Property Styling Company

Tim Matcham — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:37:49 +0000

For many of us, a conservatory is high up on our ‘wish list’ – a room to be used all year round, a bridge between the house and garden, a calm and tranquil space that lets us shelter from the elements but allows us to enjoy (almost) being outside.

The thought of being able to linger over the Sunday papers ‘in the garden’ without putting on an extra layer or jumping up to retrieve the business section from the rose bushes, is very appealing but in reality how often does this happen?

A great number of conservatories become an overspill from the main residence. I have seen many used as playrooms with an array of brightly coloured plastic scattered across every surface, storerooms with the windows blocked out to prevent items from fading, games rooms where the snooker table is so large you have to squeeze around the edge of the conservatory, laundry rooms with washing hanging from the cross beams and ‘pet’ rooms, with dog kennels, aviaries and multi-story hamster cages, all far removed from the original idea of a conservatory, in the traditional sense.

It is often quicker, cheaper and less messy to add on a conservatory than build an extension and in some cases you don’t even need planning permission.

However, if you are considering an addition to your home and wanting to add value as well as space, bear in mind how the room will be used. Possibly you do need extra storage for the kid’s toys or an area to contain your dogs but if the space is off the main sitting or dining room, a conservatory may not be the best solution!

A conservatory that becomes an aspirational improvement to a home and by that, I mean one that really enhances a property; possibly enlarging the kitchen or providing an additional sitting or dining room, a room that can have many guises but fuses with the rest of the house, always adds to the value and saleability of a home but a glass ‘box’ that simply exists to store extra clutter will never be anything more than an eyesore!

By Helen Silver www.propertystylingcompany.co.uk

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