Earth Designs Ltd, established in 2003, specializes in creating innovative garden spaces tailored to clients' lifestyles, offering a comprehensive design and implementation service. The company is run by Katrina, the creative director, and her husband Matt, who oversees construction, with a focus on using an in-house team for most work. The document outlines a detailed design proposal for a garden, including features such as a sunken water rill, bespoke seating, and lighting, along with a breakdown of associated costs totaling £36,261.35.

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What is Earth Designs?
Earth Designs Ltd was formed in 2003. Our aim is to provide our clients with a garden space that reflects their
lifestyle and personality, making our work stylish and innovative without being intimidating. From our no-nonsense,
‘down to earth’ consultations to our after-care packages, we offer a total, ‘concept to creation’ service to our
clients.
We have compiled this garden design package based on the concept
drawing discussed in your initial design consultation. This presentation,
along with your visualisation and design, should hold all the information
you need to give you a clear mental picture of how the garden will look.
If you have any questions about the design or its implementation, please
don’t hesitate to ask.
For your piece of mind Earth Designs is
a fully insured registered company.
Should you wish to see our insurance
certificates please let us know. For
mutual protection, all work is completed
under signed contracts. Earth Designs is
a full member of the British Association
of Landscape Industries (BALI).

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Who are Earth Designs?
Katrina is the Managing and Creative Director here at Earth
Designs. It will be her you will have met at your initial
consultation and she runs the design side of the company.
As Operations Director, her husband Matt oversees the
build side of the company. Should you commission an Earth
Designs garden Matt will be your first point of contact for all
build related questions.
Wherever possible, all work is completed by our in-house team, including
hard landscaping, structural design, and water features. Other services,
such as tree surgery and electrical installation, are out-sourced to
specially selected professionals

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What’s been said about us?
The design, the construction and project
management of our new garden was
carried out professionally and on
schedule
Liz and Linda, West Hampstead
We are thrilled with our new garden and
would highly recommend Earth Designs to
anyone wishing for innovative ideas
and a professional and friendly
service.
Kate Frayne, Chelsea
They were completely trustworthy and
always polite and considerate while in
our home. The end result is fantastic and
meets all our needs
Michael and Dean, Hackney

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What’s been said about us?
The end result is that an overgrown wilderness has
been transformed into an attractive and relaxing
extension to our living space and we are delighted
with the result. We only wish we'd done it sooner.
Val and Les, Ilford, Essex
I would commend them to any potential
client as a friendly, efficient, and highly
competent company, and thank them for all
their hard work on my own garden
Matthew, Stoke Newington
We are very pleased with the work
done by Earth Designs from the initial
consultation and design phase
through to implementation
Joser and Dechlan

6. Garden Design Presentation

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Your garden in words
Entering the garden via the extension, the user will travel across
two deep wide steps to join the main section of the space. Climbers
will be planted to conceal the existing fence on the left
hand side, with a bespoke screen (approximately 6 metres
long), comprising
tall timber posts joined with stainless steel tension wire and decorated with
small panels of coloured perspex, will be erected above the top of the fence to
break up the view of the buildings to the left.
Flooring throughout the space will be in rectangular dark slate tiles laid in a
stretcher bond pattern to match the interior of the house. The main section of the
garden will benefit from a variety of bespoke features designed to make maximum
use of the space. A major focus of the garden will take the form of a water feature
consisting of a sunken rill bisecting the space. Deep and wide enough to allow the
client

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Your garden in words
to add fish at a later date, this rill will be topped
with removable walk-over grating and fed from the
left side by a stainless steel water blade installed
into the front of a decorative tower constructed
from yellow stock brick, railway sleepers, coloured
perspex and slate.
Seating in the garden will be provided by two large ‘sofas’ constructed from
chunky railway sleepers, positioned to face each other across the water
feature rill. The sofas will be complemented by a matching
coffee-style table straddling the rill between them. Large (2 metre clear stem) cordylines planted in the ground at
either end of each sofa, will frame the seating to give the area a sense of privacy and seclusion.
A bespoke barbecue/fireplace will be constructed to the right of the seating area, at the opposite end of the rill to the
stainless sleet blade. Constructed from yellow stock brick and utilising the existing stone lintel, this barbeque will
feature two separate cooking areas with space between for a firepit.
The main area of the garden is screened from the remainder of the space by a tall, wide ‘shelving unit’ screen.
Constructed from railway sleepers, this structure will feature individual alcoves which will be filled with a variety of
decorative materials and ornamentation. Directly in front of this will be a flush level herb bed.

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Your garden in words
Beyond the shelving unit screen will be the child-friendly
section of the space. This will comprise a rectangular section of
artificial lawn edged by a slate paved pathway, with the
playhouse nestled within the centre of a planting bed at the end
of the garden.
Planting in the second section of the garden will include stepover fruit trees down either side, back planted by
climbers. In addition, an Acer and a Mimosa will be planted in the bed around the children’s playhouse. The
pathway around the lawn will offer the client’s opportunity to place planted pots at a later date if required.

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Your garden in plants
Latin Common
Acacia dealbata Mimosa
Acer palmatum Bloodgood Japanese Maple
Asparagus Connover's Colossal Asparagus
Callistemon Bottle brush
Clematis armandii Clematis (Group 1)
Clematis Gravetye Beauty Clematis (Group 3)
Clematis tangutica Golden Clematis (Group 3)
Cordyline australis Cabbage Tree
Fatsia Japonica Caster oil plant
Hamamelis x intermedia Jelena Witch Hazel
Jasminum beesianum Jasmine
Jasminum nudiflorum Winter Jasmine
Laurus nobilis Bay Standard
Lonicera x tellmanniana Honeysuckle
Origanum laevigatum Herrenhausen Marjoram
Rhubarb Champagne Rhubarb Champagne
Rosmarinus officinalis Rosemary standard
Thymus pseudolanuginosus Woolly Thyme
Trachelospermum asiaticum Trachelospermum
Trachelospermum jasminoides Star Jasmine
Stepover fruit trees

15. Winter Jasmine

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Two submersible pond lights positioned within
the sunken rill will caste gentle ripples of light
across the seating area through the walk-over
grill
10 x large low voltage LED lights will be
installed to illuminate individual alcoves
of the railway sleeper screen (1 per
alcove) to create nocturnal feature of
this eye-catching structure

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Mains voltage spike spotlights installed in
the ground beneath each cordyline in the
centre of the space, will highlight these
impressive plants while giving illumination
to the seating area
A single stainless steel spotlight
installed on the side of the house will
provide light to the sideway

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Your garden in numbers
Date: 13.03.08 Version: 01
QUOTE AND PROPOSAL OF WORKS
Client Name: Job No: ED130
Site Address:
Clearance and preparation Total Cost: £1,988.30
~ Remove existing lawn
~ Remove existing concrete flooring adjoining house
~ Remove general garden waste
~ Replace broken fence posts at end of left hand boundary (beside shed) and re-attach existing fence
~ Relocate drainpipe on right hand side of extension patio doors to left hand side of extension patio doors (to aid easy opening of right hand patio door) - this
will necessitate running a section of drainpipe across the top fascia of the extension
~ Relocate children's playhouse as per design (including concrete blocks to support)
Waste disposal (skip hire (multiple))
Labour
Paving Total Cost: £8,747.55
Install Black slate paving, including cladding to step treads and risers, as per design. To comprise:
Excavate area to be paved to depth of approx. 150mm
Lay approx. 32 sq. metres of compacted MoT type 1 hardcore base to depth of 100mm
Lay approx. 32 sq. metres 600mm x 400mm honed black slate tiles* in 'stretcher course' pattern**, including steps and path round lawn
Install yellow stock bricks in 'soldier course' pattern to edge water feature rill and herb bed
Yellow stock bricks and concrete to construct terraced steps as per design
All materials for above
Disposal of excavated waste
Labour
* Client to choose colour from available options (Earth Designs recommends Brazillian Black)
** Paving to be laid on full mortar bed (min. 25mm thick). Mortar joints not more than 10mm. Paving to be laid with 1:80 run-off to planting beds and drains as
appropriate. Paving to be laid 150mm below the property's damp proof course
Railway sleeper screen Total Cost: £2,492.44
Construct railway sleeper shelving unit/screen (3000mm (l) x 2000mm (h) with perspex in-lay and various fillers to individual alcoves as per design/visual.
To comprise:
New pressure treated softwood railway sleepers (250mm x 125mm x 2600mm) to construct uprights, cross beams and alcoves/shelves
Timberlock screws to fix
Concrete to secure uprights
Perspex sheeting (3mm) for inlay - 2 different colours - client to choose from available colours and types (i.e. opaque, translucent or clear)
Various decorative infill materials (e.g. log sections, glass nuggets, decorative stones) including galvanised mesh to retain
Dark woodstain to treat
Waste disposal (post foundations)
Labour

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Railw ay sleeper seating Total Cost: £2,475.50
Construct railway sleeper seating as per design/visual. To comprise:
2 x railway sleeper sofa seats@ 2000mm (l) x 750mm (w) x 500mm (h) (with back rest 750mm high)
1 x free standing railway sleeper coffee-style table approx. 1000mm square x 500mm (h)
To comprise:
New pressure treated softwood railway sleepers
Timberlock screws to fix
Compacted hardcore for seat foundations
Dark woodstain to treat
Waste disposal
Labour to construct
Water feature Total Cost: £5,074.21
Construct water feature as per design/visual, as follows:
Sunken black rill (1000mm wide x 3500mm long x 600mm deep), covered with a grill 'walk-over' top and fed at the left end by a 600mm stainless steel water
blade mounted on a railway sleeper, slate, perspex and brick structure (approx. 1000mm high x 925mm wide x 500mm deep) as per sketch on supplied design
To comprise:
Rill:
Excavate rill to depth of approximately 850mm
Lay waterproof concrete base at 250mm thick
Construct rill sides with high density concrete blocks
Render rill sides with water proof render and paint with black pond paint
Install removeable 'walk over' fibreglass grating panels* (1000mm x 1000mm x 30mm)
Install 1 x pond pump and tubing
Electrical installation by qualified electrician**
Electrical installation materials***
Disposal of excavated waste
Labour
Water blade mount structure:
Construct outer side cladding from Yellow Stock bricks, including concrete foundations
New railway sleepers to line inside brick cladding
Black slate tiles (to match garden paving) to clad front and top of structure
Perspex panel to install to front of structure directly below water blade
1 x stainless steel water blade/spout 600mm wide mounted halfway up front of structure
Stainless steel screws to secure perspex and slate tiles
Labour
* Available grating colours: Dark grey, Light Green and Sand
** All electrical materials to be suitable for exterior use and rated to at least IP65 where appropriate
*** A copy of the appropriate NICEIC Domestic Electrical Installation Certificate will be given to the client on completion of the work. This certificate
may be combined with certificate issued for any lighting work undertaken during the project.

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Bespoke BBQ Total Cost: £1,681.74
Construct brick built BBQ with central fire pit as per design/visual (N.B. elevation on design not to scale. To comprise:
Excavate and lay concrete foundations
Construct 2 x brick BBQs from Yellow Stock bricks (approx. 750mm (w) x 500mm (d) x 1000mm (h) per bbq) with open front as per design
Install existing concrete lintel between two BBQs
Install 2 x BBQ tray and grill to fit
Supply and install metal fire pit
All materials to construct
Labour
Artificial lawn Total Cost: £963.86
Install artificial lawn (approx 2750mm x 3500mm) as per design/visual. To comprise:
Luxury artificial turf with two-tone pile*
Compacted sharp sand base
Kiln dried sand to dress
Labour to lay
* Please note that artificial turf is supplied in 4 metre wide rolls, therefore some wastage will occur based on the required lawn dimensions
Decorative tension wire screen/trellis Total Cost: £2,249.79
Construct decorative wire trellis down left boundary (from house extension to far side of water feature) as per design/visual. To comprise:
Treated wooden posts (approx. 3000mm high) secured in concrete foundations (3 posts total approx 2.7m apart)
Stainless steel tension wire (including tensioners) to run between horizontally between each post (wires start approx 1000mm above top of fence - 3 evenly
spaced horizontal wires in total with approx 165mm gap between each wire)
Small (approx 100mm square) coloured perspex panels (two colours) to install between horizontal wires (including wire clips) - approx 75 panels in total
Stain for posts
All materials for above
Labour
Planting Total Cost: £2,289.25
Install plants to all beds as per planting list in supplied design presentation. To include:
4 x cordyline australis (2000mm clear stem)
Decorative bark chips to mulch planting beds
Decorative cobbles to mulch beneath cordyline
Labour to install

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Lighting Total Cost: £2,898.09
Lighting and electical installation throughout. To comprise:
10 x large LED lights in railway sleeper screen
2 x M2500 pond lights for sunken rill
1 x light behind perspex panel in water feature 'feeder tower'
1 x stainless steel adjustable spotlight to install on house wall down sideway
24 x low voltage spotlights for flush planting beds
4 x 240v spike spotlights to uplight cordylines in seating area (1 per cordyline)
1 x double weatherproof socket
All necessary transformers, connectors and bulbs for fittings
All installation materials, including armoured cable, weatherproof boxes, rcd and weatherproof switches*
Electrical installation and certification** by qualified electrician
Labour to manually install fittings
* All electrical materials to be suitable for exterior use and rated to IP65 where appropriate
** A copy of the appropriate NICEIC Domestic Electrical Installation Certificate will be given to the client on completion of the work
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WIRING REGULATIONS AND THE NATURE OF THE MATERIALS USED, IN SOME AREAS (SUCH AS ON THE HOUSE WALL)
THE CABLING, JUNCTION BOXES, ETC MAY BE VISIBLE. THIS WILL BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM AND MADE AS INCONSPICIOUS AND IN-KEEPING
WITH THE STYLE OF THE GARDEN AS POSSIBLE.
Sub-total: £30,860.73
VAT @ 17.5%: £5,400.63
Total: £36,261.35
PAYABLE IN 5 INSTALMENTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. Due im m ediately to secure dates 25.00% £9,065.34
2. Due 1 m onth prior to com m encem ent of w ork 25.00% £9,065.34
3. Due at end of first w eek of w ork 20.00% £7,252.27
4. Due at end of second w eek of w ork 20.00% £6,172.15
5. Due on com pletion 10.00% £3,086.07

24. 5 Hatherley Mews
Walthamstow
London
E17 4QP
T:020 8521 9040
F:020 8257 9246
M:07717 453401
info@earthdesigns.co.uk
www.earthdesigns.co.uk
Company number: 04680276
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