Outdoor Design

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Designed for a couple who frequently travel for business, creating low-maintenance gardens that would thrive, not just survive during their absences was imperative. As was designing spaces that could take the punishment meted out by their teenage sons and the family dog.

The designer, Gerrad Everson of Octopus

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