Family Gardens That Don't Look Like Playgrounds

The Plastic Takeover

You want a sharp, modern garden to host your mates and have a beer.

But you have kids. So instead, your patio is covered in bright plastic toys. The lawn is a muddy swamp where they play football. You are constantly dragging dirt into the kitchen.

Most people just give up. They think having kids means surrendering the garden for the next ten years until they grow up.

You Don't Have to Choose

You can have a premium, architectural garden that still works for a family. You just have to actually design the space and engineer the groundworks to handle the heavy traffic.

If you just lay a big square of standard turf and a basic patio, the kids will destroy it by November.

Zone the Garden

We don't just leave one massive, open space. We zone it.

We build a sharp, modern porcelain terrace nearest the house. That is the adult zone. We frame it with low, rendered block walls or heavy oak sleeper beds. This creates a physical barrier. It breaks the sightlines, so when you are sitting on your expensive patio, you aren't staring directly at a trampoline.

We also build solid, custom timber storage into the boundary walls. You actually have a place to chuck the plastic slides and bikes at the end of the day so the garden looks like a high-end property again.

Bulletproof the Lawn

Kids wreck standard lawns.

For the heavy play areas, we dig out the mud properly. We put in a heavy-duty stone sub-base that drains instantly, and lay premium, high-weight artificial grass.

It takes a beating all year round. The kids can play football in January, and they won't drag a single muddy footprint across your clean porcelain tiles or into your house.

Build It Right

Don't let the garden turn into a swamp. Zone the space, sort the groundworks, and get your premium patio back.

Stop by the office at 78 Alma Rd, Bournemouth BH9 1AN, UK, or call 07835 390845.