Paddington Terrace
A narrow Victorian terrace garden reworked into three connected outdoor rooms — front bed, kitchen courtyard and a planted laneway entry.
A narrow Victorian terrace garden reworked into three connected outdoor rooms — front bed, kitchen courtyard and a planted laneway entry.
Inner-city terraces ask the landscape to do three jobs at once: arrival, outdoor living and screening. On a five-metre frontage with party walls on both sides, every centimetre had to be drawn carefully.
We rebuilt the front garden as a low, mostly-evergreen composition that reads from the street as one quiet gesture. The rear courtyard was excavated by 400mm to create a sense of room and rebuilt around a single olive tree pulled in by crane. A skinny lane down the western side was converted from a wasted side return into a planted approach to the new kitchen door.
The palette is deliberately tight — three trees, six shrubs, four ground covers — so the garden reads as resolved from every angle rather than busy. Lighting was kept low and warm; the garden disappears at night and the planting takes the spotlight.
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