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Landscape design & outdoor living

Room to live outside.

Thoughtful outdoor spaces, shaped around the way you want to live.

Illustrative concept image: an enclosed courtyard with limestone paving, sculptural planting and a built-in bench in warm evening light
Illustrative concept image — an enclosed courtyard at the end of the day.

The space study

How would you like to use the space?

Three ways people ask us to shape a garden. Choose one to see how it is arranged.

Outdoor dining and places to come together.

A table sized for the people who actually visit, with room to move around it and shade where the afternoon sun lands.

Illustrative concept image: a dining table on a stone terrace beneath a timber pergola
Illustrative concept image — a terrace organised around the table.

Illustrative design studies

Selected space studies

Three ways the same idea is arranged. Each study is a concept, not a completed project.

Illustrative concept image: an enclosed courtyard with limestone paving, sculptural planting and a built-in bench

01 / Enclosed courtyard

The Courtyard Room

A small, sheltered courtyard treated as another room of the house — somewhere to sit with a coffee while the street stays just out of earshot.

Explore the Study
Illustrative concept image: a designed garden at dusk lit by small warm garden uplights

02 / Front garden, used after dark

An Evening Garden

A garden that works in the evening, when it is actually used — light placed so paths read clearly and planting keeps its shape after sunset.

Explore the Study
Illustrative concept image: an outdoor dining table on a stone terrace beneath a timber pergola with climbing vines

03 / Dining terrace

A Place at the Table

An outdoor table that is genuinely used — shade in the middle of the day, room to move around the chairs, and one clear route from the kitchen.

Explore the Study

A considered plan for your outdoor space.

Four kinds of work, often combined. You can start with one and add the rest later.

Illustrative concept image: close view of limestone paving joints under raking light

Illustrative concept image — a material study kept beside the plan.

  • 01

    Landscape Design

    The overall plan: how the space is laid out, what goes where, and what order things happen in.

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  • 02

    Patios & Gathering Spaces

    Terrace and patio layouts built around the way you sit, eat, and host.

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  • 03

    Planting Plans

    Plant selection with structure first, so the space reads well all year — not only at its peak.

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  • 04

    Outdoor Lighting Concepts

    Light placed for evenings — paths you can see and planting that keeps its shape after dark.

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Your space, thoughtfully considered.

See the full approach
  1. 01

    Listen

    We start with how you want to use the space and what already works. Nothing gets drawn until that part is clear.

  2. 02

    Explore

    Two or three ways the space could be arranged, described in plain language, so you have something real to react to.

  3. 03

    Refine

    We narrow it down together — materials, planting, and where your money is best spent.

  4. 04

    Plan

    One clear written plan you can keep, quote from, and build at whatever pace suits you.

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Concept diagram — the same line is carried through all four stages and closes into a room.

What could your outdoor space become?

Tell us what you would like to change, and we will start with the part that matters most to you.

Discuss Your Space

A first conversation is a conversation — no obligation to proceed.

Stillform

Outdoor spaces for everyday living.

Independent design concept • Fictional business. Stillform is not a client and nothing here is a real offer. Project imagery and design studies are illustrative concepts.