'For the first few years I did very little, designing my own garden proved to be an unexpected challenge. I needed to draw up a plan. But now I was my own client and I didn't know where to start!'
"For the first few years I did very little, designing my own garden proved to be an unexpected challenge. I needed to draw up a plan. But now I was my own client and I didn't know where to start!"Diarmuid Gavin moved from London to Wicklow 14 years ago with his wife Justine and their then-two year old daughter, Eppie. The house where they chose to put down deep roots was a new-build nestled in a small new housing estate at the foot of the Sugarloaf mountain.
"For the first few years I did very little, designing my own garden proved to be an unexpected challenge. I knew what I wanted, which was a contemporary garden packed with plants, a lawn for games and a space to grow vegetables. We wanted to live outdoors as much as possible. Over time, a dream developed: To wander from each room upstairs onto a wide balcony or veranda under the cover of an overhanging roof and use the upstairs space as an outdoor room. However, reality kicked in.
"A covered veranda would also allow an unusual view over the garden and would let me indulge in my love for architectural plants such as tree ferns, as viewed from above. And so we built it, and over time changed the architecture of the back of the house by taking out windows and replacing them with glass doors.
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