Whilst we have been waiting impatiently for our architect to get back to us with some modifications which we requested to our house plans, we have received a first proposal from the landscape architect who he recommended to us:
View from the N.E.
View from the S.W. (The street is to the left, entrance & driveway is top left)
The main garden plans are too big to post on the blog, but you get an idea from the small sketches above. (The house and garage is not really going to be completely black, but will have dry-stone walls and a conventional roof!)
We are very pleased with the proposal, which is completely in line with our own ideas. It will give us some interesting views from the house, uses indigenous plants and accommodates our request to have some citrus trees in the garden – we like freshly pressed orange juice every morning and it would be great to be able to press fruit from our own trees when it is in season.
I also spoke to the architect today, and he promised us that although he had put us on hold for a couple of weeks to finish another project, we are now his top priority, and he hopes to have everything we need to apply for planning permission completed within the next two weeks, which is also good news.
That looks fantastic!! xx