Current Projects

A couple of photos of progress; storage shed and tank screen taking shape. Read more »

I am starting a family garden in Co. Kildare for a couple with a two year old son. The principal features will be a large paved sitting/ entertainment space, a custom storage shed, generous lawn area, screening to the unsightly oil tank, herbaceous planting bed, shade planting bed, fruit bed and herb bed. A large… Read more »

Here are a few photos of the front porch project I am doing in Co. Laois. The shiplap cladding has been started so we can begin to get a sense of the character of the finished structure. The planned colour is Black Ash. The next step is to get the profiled metal roof cladding on,… Read more »

We’ve had a nice dry week so we could move a bit of soil down in the Hazel on Saturday. We got all the excavation done for the central paved area. We also put down a layer of opaque polythene on what will be the perimeter planting beds. The polythene will keep unwanted grass and… Read more »

The brief is to create an entrance porch to provide a weather buffer and more space for boots, coats, dogs etc. The current front door faces south and gets battered with rain and wind which inevitably, in the midlands, comes from a southerly direction. There will be six large windows to maintain light and a… Read more »

More rain but good progress nonetheless on Saturday. Perimeter pretty much in, we had to leave out a section to facilitate access for the large precast concrete manhole ring which will form the structure of the central water feature. The water feature will be 2 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. The perimeter will… Read more »

Despite the rain we made good progress down at the Syrian Garden in the refugee reception centre in Monasterevin on Saturday. All of the perimeter posts went in, railing and boarding will happen next Saturday. Not surprisingly, given the recent weather, we encountered an awful lot of surface water. We had to divert a couple… Read more »