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December Garden Tips 2024
The right garden can help you stay cool over the summer months - it's all about microclimate. If you have a [...]
Wellbeing Tips: Water and Serenity
Sound and Movement - The sound of flowing water can be a powerful tool for creating ambiance while masking disruptive noises. [...]
Talk about a veggie patch!
Another stop on Outhouse's recent tour of UK gardens was Chatsworth House Gardens, home to this incredible kitchen garden. This is [...]
October Garden Tips 2024
Soils ain't soils - improving your soil should be considered an ongoing project, something to do at times of planting but [...]
August Garden Tips 2024
Spring is probably the busiest time for the home gardener - but you can get a headstart on those spring jobs [...]
Garden visit: Beth Chatto’s Garden
Outhouse recently visited Beth Chatto's famous garden in Colchester, UK - Chatto was a renowned garden designer and horticulturalist, and her [...]
Congratulations Remy
Congratulations Remy, the newest member of the Outhouse team recently graduated from The University of technology with a degree in Landscape [...]
July Garden Tips 2024
Crisp, clear air and the warming sun - when it's not raining, winter in Sydney is absolutely beautiful outside (just don't [...]
Congratulations Katrine, AILA RLA
We are thrilled to announce that Katrine Mardini has officially become a Registered Landscape Architect with the Australian Institute of Landscape [...]
Gardening training – empowering you to enjoy your garden!
OUTHOUSE recently hosted a training day for staff at long-standing client RSPCA, enabling them to take ownership of the new landscape [...]
June Garden Tips 2024
Sydney is lucky to have relatively mild winters, but even here the winter garden is sometimes one where the structural elements [...]
May Garden Tips 2024
The cooler months are some of our favourite times to be in the garden: work done now ensures a bountiful harvest [...]
Hurstville Grove Radio Feature
A special thanks to Craig Reucassel host of Sydney Breakfast on ABC Radio Show @creucassel @abcradionational for inviting our Senior Landscape Architect & [...]
April Garden Tips 2024
Cooler autumn nights and shorter days are a signal to many plants to begin flowering - Camellia sasanqua is one of [...]
Aged Care News: Best in Grow Resident Gardening Competition Goes from Strength to Strength
In 2022 Outhouse design’s Steve Warner was lucky enough to be invited to engage with residents in a new initiative called [...]
Hurstville Grove Infant School Wins Landscape Designer of the Year!
In the recent LDI National Landscape Design Awards OUTHOUSE Design was awarded Gold for the Commercial Masterplan category as well as [...]
March Garden Tips 2024
By the time March rolls around, it feels like the whole garden is heaving a collective sigh of relief! February can [...]
LDI Commercial Landscape Designer of the Year and four Gold awards!
OUTHOUSE design picked up one of the coveted major awards at last week's LDI 2023-24 National Landscape Design Awards, winning [...]
February Garden Tips 2024
A well-tended garden can be a gorgeous place to linger on a summer afternoon, but only if it offers the right [...]
OUTHOUSE shortlisted for National Landscape Design Awards
OUTHOUSE has been shortlisted across multiple categories for the upcoming LDI 2023 National Landscape Design Awards. Residential projects in the [...]
December Garden Tips 2023
Summer is when Sydney's climate really shows its challenging aspects for gardening. From year to year, summer can be scorching hot, [...]
2023 LNA AWARD RESULTS
The results are in for the 2023 LNA Landscape Excellence Awards! We are so pleased that our sensory school playground project in [...]
November Garden Tips
It's the end of spring, and the days are getting steadily hotter. Keep your garden thriving over the summer months by [...]
October Garden Tips
Spring is kicking into gear by October, and most plants will be putting on a steady flush of growth. Here's a [...]
October Mindfulness
Today marks the 2023 World Mental Health Day and this year's theme is 'Mental Health is a Universal Human Right'. As [...]
Gardens from above
OUTHOUSE has been increasingly using drones to capture aerial views of our constructed gardens. Drone technology has opened up new opportunities [...]
Hurstville Grove Infant School Unveils New Playground and Yarning Circle
Hurstville Grove has a historical connection with woodland and tree groves, and we took this as our inspiration to design this [...]
A visit to Sissinghurst
This month, OUTHOUSE principal designer Steve Warner reflects on his recent visit to the historic gardens at England’s famous Sissinghurst Castle. [...]
August Garden Tips
August is an exciting time of year: warm days start to sneak in and many plants will be showing signs of [...]
July Garden Tips
The cool, dry, sunny days of winter are one of the best times to be outside and in the garden. You [...]
Trip of a lifetime!
Two bucket list gardens down, so many more to see. OUTHOUSE principal designer Steve Warner recently spent a month in Europe, [...]
May Garden Tips
Cold weather has arrived! Strictly speaking, Sydney does not have cold winters, but we can certainly have cold days each year. [...]
Plant Collector’s Fair 2023 – designing with new plants
Instead of taking a breather after March's incredible landscape industry fixtures in Melbourne, Outhouse decided to keep up the pace and [...]
Australian Landscape Conference and MIFGS 2023
OUTHOUSE had the great privilege last month to attend both the Australian Landscape Conference and the Melbourne International Flower and Garden [...]
April Garden Tips
Autumn is a fantastic time of year in Sydney, with the edge just starting to come off the temperatures and many [...]
March Garden Tips
March is the wettest month of the year in Sydney, and lingering summer heat can make it feel like an extension [...]
February Garden Tips
February is hot and humid - keep your plants healthy through this period and you'll be rewarded with an autumn [...]
January Garden Tips
Christmas is over and the long summer holiday is here - January is when many people will have the time [...]
December Garden tips
December signals the start of summer - in Sydney this means temperatures and humidity are already on the rise. Christmas [...]
OUTHOUSE launching new horticultural design services
"The best fertiliser is a gardener's shadow." We don't know who said it first, but the old proverb is still [...]
November Garden tips – preparing for Spring!
The season of growth is well and truly on us now - the early blossoms have already disappeared and evergreens [...]
OUTHOUSE garden takes Gold at LDI National Landscape Awards
OUTHOUSE design took home a gold award in the Mid-Size Residential category from 2022's Landscape Design Institute National Landscape Design Awards, [...]
Two OUTHOUSE gardens featured in Backyard & Outdoor Living
Two of OUTHOUSE design's recently completed gardens are featured in the current issue of Backyard & Outdoor Living! You can find the [...]
Better Homes and Gardens Feature
On this week's Better Homes and Gardens episode, Graham Ross takes you through our beautiful Five Dock family garden in detail [...]
Lt Cantello Reserve All Inclusive Playground Is Now Complete And Open To All!
Such a pleasure as always working with Variety Livvi’s Place and extremely grateful to Liverpool City Council for the opportunity to showcase [...]
SMALL STUDIO – BIG IDEAS – FLEXIBLE, INNOVATIVE, GREAT PROJECTS
OUTHOUSE design is an award-winning landscape architectural practice with a key focus on our people, in order to deliver unique outcomes [...]
Variety Livvi’s Place Lt Cantello Reserve Grand Opening
Melanie Gibbons the representative for Holsworthy attended the opening of our inclusive playground in Liverpool, commenting "Recently I was honored to [...]
Allan Correy Award for Design Excellence 2021
OUTHOUSE Design principal designer Steve Warner has been awarded the 2021 Allan Correy Award for Design Excellence at the AILDM awards [...]
Inner City Tranquility featured in Australian House & Garden
We are so thrilled to announce that one of our favourite designs has been written up in September's issue of Australian House [...]
2020 Sydney Design Award Winners
OUTHOUSE design are extremely pleased to share that our one-of-a-kind project Santa’s Secret Garden has been awarded a 2020 Sydney Design [...]
Santa’s Secret Garden Opens!
We are so thrilled to have our Secret Santa’s Garden project featured on 7NEWS Sydney. You can rewatch the snippet here: https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSsydney/videos/2476592012578085/ We [...]
2019 LNA Award Results!
The results are in for the 2019 LNA Landscape Excellence Awards for Construction! We are so pleased that our residential courtyard [...]
OUTHOUSE design on Dream Gardens!
Catch us on ABC’s Dream Gardens next Tuesday 5th November, 8:00pm as we shine the spotlight back onto our multi-award winning [...]
OUTHOUSE Wins Gold & Best In Category: 2019 AILDM National Landscape Design Awards
OUTHOUSE Design in pleased to announce we were awarded a series of awards at the 2019 National Landscape Design Awards over the [...]
Cultivate NSW Committee Member
Our senior Landscape Architect Katrine Mardini has recently become a Committee member of Cultivate NSW. It is the main organisation of the [...]
Stockland Green Hills wins respected Development Excellence Award
Stockland Green Hills shopping centre has recently been awarded the Urban Taskforce 2019 Development Excellence Award in the category of Retail Development. [...]
LNA Master Landscapers Association: Residential Landscape Construction of the year
We are thrilled to announce our Urban Oasis project in Paddington has received two awards apart of the 2018 LNA Master Landscapers [...]
The Happy Garden featured on Sunrise
The Happy Garden apart of the Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick is a space for respite for sick children. In this segment [...]
New Knox Grammar Project
This week we started installation at our exiting new project for Knox Grammar School. [...]
Best Western Is Project In Focus
We are often asked who we use for our lighting design. We are proud to say it is the amazing team at [...]
Boutique Hotel Courtyard Completion
Our Boutique Hotel courtyard garden comes to life! An amazing transformation and engaging space for hotel guests to relax, enjoy and soak [...]
Featured in Eco Outdoor Specs book
We’re extremely thrilled having our gorgeous rooftop design at Knox Grammar School displayed on Eco Outdoor Specification book! Click here to see more [...]
Featured in Outdoor Product Guide Magazine
Take a sneak peek here from the Outdoor Product Guide magazine as our Senior Landscape Architect Katrine talks Garden art. "When designing [...]
Dream Gardens filming part 2
Our gorgeous overhead structure is coming together! How exciting as it will be aired on ABC's #DreamGardens in 2018. Stay tune!! Thank you Outside Space and PO Box [...]
Dream Gardens filming part 1
A massive day filming our rooftop project for the ABC hit gardening program 'Dream Gardens' with Michael McCoy and the #DreamGardens' film crew. Stay tuned and watch [...]
The Happy Garden in ODS
Thank you Outdoor Design Source for featuring our award winning Happy Garden in the Sydney Children's hospital on your latest newsletter. Click here to [...]
Progress shot – Commercial
So excited for our first leaf of many that will form part of our featured playground at an upcoming Shopping Centre!!! Stay [...]
Featured in Garden Clinic Magazine
Flicking back to our Randwick's Happy Garden project featured in The Garden Clinic Magazine. Thank you Robin Powell, the Garden Clinic's editor and the [...]
Cultivate Sponsorship
At OUTHOUSE design we believe in giving back to the community via our Pro Bono work and we are so delighted to [...]
Knox Grammar School’s landscape design won multiple awards
Thank you Knox Grammar School for selecting us to design this unique outdoor learning space for the senior boys to enjoy and come together. [...]
AILDM Awards 2017
On Saturday the 26th August the team at OUTHOUSE design attended the 2017 AILDM National Landscape Design Awards. It was an incredible [...]
Paddington garden won Gold!
Thank you Robert and Trish, our amazing clients, for trusting us to design this incredible garden and entering it into this year’s [...]
Camperdown Commons Playground awarded Gold
Thank you to Lloyd and his team at the Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL for engaging us to create this small but valuable [...]
Liverpool Council Park unveiling
Fantastic day to celebrate the reopening of Miller Park, such a privilege to work with the team at Liverpool Council in creating [...]
Miller Park playground opening
We’re so excited that our playground is officially opening. Come and join us this Saturday 19th Aug!
Shortlisted for 2017 AILDM Award
We’re so honoured to be shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 National AILDM Award! We believe that this year has had the highest [...]
Dream Gardens
OUTHOUSE design is so excited to be part of the celebrated ABC's Dream Gardens show with the amazing Michael McCoy. We are [...]
Leycester Meares Awards
Fantastic privilege and honour to receive the coveted Leycester Meares Award for innovative design at the National Kidsafe Awards. This was for [...]
Allan Correy Award for Design Excellence
‘Tonight’s Allan Correy Award for Design Excellence is a great joy for me to present and, being very familiar with Allan Correy’s [...]
‘The Happy Garden’ is Officially Open!
The Happy Garden at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick is a magical new fantasy garden created by Outhouse Design, together with the [...]
Gardening Australia Feature
Our Award Winning RSPCA project was featured on Gardening Australia TV program. "Animal shelters are usually unfriendly environments, but this is a [...]
Small Gardens Transformed into ‘Stylish Living Spaces’
While this amazing home would be the envy of most people, the garden certainly wasn’t,” says Steve Warner of OUTHOUSE design who [...]
‘Ladybird Woodland’ Opening
Leichhardt Council's Mayor Darcy Byrne and Deputy Mayor Linda Kelly were on hand recently to celebrate the opening of the award winning 'Ladybird [...]
A Little Space with a Big Impact!
Originally, this now stunning outdoor room featured an old garage roller door that could be viewed from the main lounge and kitchen [...]
National Award Winning Toxteth’s Ladybird Woodland makes News!
Turning concrete into great outdoors space hasn't only improved the ambience for the children at an Annandale childcare centre, it's also won a [...]
Urban Nest
Maybe we need to re connect. Maybe it’s time to get back to the basics, to re charge the battery and just [...]
Less is More
This traditional terrace has been renovated with such care and pride by the home owners, engaging the services of Philip Goodman of [...]
Clean Organic
Gone are the straight lines, replaced with a bold open lawn area and oversized organic pavers. Built in timber seating allow plenty [...]
A Petite Garden Proving Fresh Produce can be Grown Anywhere
If you have a small inner-city garden or courtyard, you may be thinking that a flourishing vegetable garden is out of reach. [...]
Manly Vale Community Garden & Playground
Community gardens are opening up all over Australia at an amazing pace. OUTHOUSE design has been working with Warringah Council in it’s [...]
OUTHOUSE design receives National Award from the Governor General
OUTHOUSE design has scooped a Kidsafe 2012 National Playspace Design Award for its ‘Ladybird Woodland’ playground for Toxteth Kindergarten in Annandale. Kidsafe [...]
