ReScape
Narrow plunge pool bordered by ironbark decking and a dense bamboo privacy screen, with an outdoor dining setting alongside
Design Style

Compact & Inner-City

Small footprint, considered detail

About the style

Compact & Inner-City

Compact and inner-city gardens make the most of tight, narrow, or difficult-access sites through plunge pools, vertical greening, and careful screening. Every material and sightline is considered because there is no space to waste.

Suits

Suits inner-city blocks with a limited footprint or difficult access where privacy and function have to be solved cleverly.

Materials

  • Ironbark decking
  • Clumping bamboo
  • Basalt paving
  • Corten steel fireplace
  • Black steel screening
  • Polished concrete

Signature details

  • Plunge pool footprint
  • Dense bamboo privacy screening
  • Tight-access side paths
  • Built-in fireplace nook
  • Vertical greening
  • Linear drainage details
The Gallery

Compact & Inner-City in South East Queensland gardens.

Stepping pavers through a tight side-access path with mixed native and tropical underplanting
Small courtyard with black steel privacy screening, pavers, and lawn against a rendered wall
Timber entry door and stepping pavers through a narrow side garden with native planting
Narrow paved side path leading to a steel gate between rendered boundary walls
Steel pergola walkway with timber posts framing a narrow side entry path
Street view of a contemporary black-clad home with a steel entry gate and clipped lawn
Narrow side path with a linear drain and layered tropical underplanting against a rendered wall
Street facade of a white rendered contemporary home with a timber entry door
Aerial view of a plunge pool, timber deck, corten fireplace, and bamboo screening in a tight courtyard
Small rectangular plunge pool on ironbark decking backed by a dense bamboo privacy screen
Built-in timber bench and freestanding fireplace on a deck backed by a dense bamboo screen
Corten steel fireplace detail on a timber deck against a bamboo privacy screen

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