Very nice, Martin.
Thanks for sharing it.

Eric Clough
Building Designer and Landscape Architect

@ Eric - Hi Eric, thanks for the comments and you are welcome. Are you large scale Landscape Architect or garden designer like myself ?

When the construction is complete and functionality has been tried and tested I will put the whole design up on GrabCAD so it will have the decking area as well as the gazebo and the pond. The only thing you will need to do as add your own planting schema.

Wishing everyone all the very best

Martin Spencer-Ford

Hi Martin ...

I guess you would say I am a 'large scale' landscape architect ... I only do private gardens when I design a house for a client. Some of the municipalities in this area require registered landscape architects for development permits so I do a fair amount of that type of work as well as commercial site planning and park development. My first 14 years of practice was in the San Francisco bay area and I did lots of private landscape architecture there incorporating outdoor living spaces and swimming pools.

My work over the last many years focuses more on site development planning (with planting specs included), residential architecture, affordable housing, and some commercial work (currently working on a veterinary clinic, a country butcher shop/restaurant, a residence and some multiple housing). I work in a very rural area (in BC Canada) with scattered small cities so my work is extremely varied ... from some very small projects (like a new front porch) to numerous medium sized ones (hardly ever exceeding a million).

I appreciate your good design work and attention to detail.

cheers,
eric

Hi Eric

>> I guess you would say I am a 'large scale' landscape architect ... I only do private gardens when I design a house for a client. Some of the municipalities in this area require registered landscape architects for development permits so I do a fair amount of that type of work as well as commercial site planning and park development. My first 14 years of practice was in the San Francisco bay area and I did lots of private landscape architecture there incorporating outdoor living spaces and swimming pools. <<

I have done gardens up to 4 acres in size but find them very cumbersome when they are so large, it wouldn't be so bad if they let you have free reign but they never do. Never designed a swimming pool other than to put dimensions and a label stating swimming pool, i pretty much avoid water designs as much as possible, ponds i can handle and drainage systems, other than that i don't tempt providence :)>> My work over the last many years focuses more on site development planning (with planting specs included), residential architecture, affordable housing, and some commercial work (currently working on a veterinary clinic, a country butcher shop/restaurant, a residence and some multiple housing). I work in a very rural area (in BC Canada) with scattered small cities so my work is extremely varied ... from some very small projects (like a new front porch) to numerous medium sized ones (hardly ever exceeding a million). <<

I did lots of this type work about 25 years ago when the UK had a building boom and I did the landscaping designs for 'public' areas, i prefer to call it no mans land but i certainly never made anywhere near a million from them - lol.

Done bespoke conservatory, greenhouse, garages, lean-toos and even garden potting sheds etc., but back then it was all pen and paper.

I miss it all, the banter with the workers and the excitement of chasing after design contracts, getting down n dirty, still hate surveying !!>> I appreciate your good design work and attention to detail. <<

Thanks :) Would love to see some of your projects, send me a PM if you have a link you don't mind sharing it or them, don't need files, just pictures will do

All the best Eric

Martin Spencer-Ford

Timber has been ordered today - Construction starts 9th June 2015 - Yay, the final big spend.

Rendered images of the design can be found here
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1648291982058866.1073741835.1488815808006485&type=3


Michael I need to claw back some forum post space .... Are you able to do this when you have time or is it something i need to do manually ?

Martin Spencer-Ford

Hi Martin, that's great that it's in progress!!

re:
> Michael I need to claw back some forum post space .... Are you able to do this
> when you have time or is it something i need to do manually ?

I don't have any automated way to do this, you have to just do it manually by deleting some of your biggest attachments. Go to Options on the upper bar and then choose "Attachments" on the left menu bar, if you have any big file in there delete those and that will probably leave room for more images.

I can't really host all that much stuff directly on the server because the server has limited disk space, so if you need to store a lot of things you may need to use a file sharing service like Dropbox or Microsoft One Drive where they have way more space available, and then put in links to that content over here, rather than directly uploading it here.

- Michael

Much appreciated Michael - I will have to scrounge some time and get it sorted :)

Martin
(TpwUK)

Construction almost complete - Need to save up again to purchase the finishing touches, but the spare bedroom tax has been imposed upon us so this will take longer than anticipated, hopefully the Tribunal will find in our favour and help us to complete this very important personal project.

Pictures are here: https://www.facebook.com/martin.spencerford/media_set?set=a.10205427481341397.1073741831.1080888421&type=3

Martin
(TpwUK)

WTH????? smh.....

Hope you get it finished up nicely, soon.