This professional couple, both leaders in their fields in the media world, had recently moved to London from a large house in the country and found an early 20th century house in West London with a large garden (25 m x 20m) which would accommodate their large family.

The garden had been greatly loved at one time but had been let go in recent times. The couple wanted a much more modern garden with good quality garden lighting, contemporary style fish pond and ordered and contemporary planting.

It had an old fashioned rockery and pond in a sunken area just off the house and we proposed that this area should be transformed into a sunken grassed area using some of the sandstone rocks and stones from the old rockery - so a grass amphitheatre was created.

The amphitheatre is used for as a seating area by both adults and teenagers both by day and night (it is cross-lit at night) and is fun for the youngest daughter who can use it as a play arena. The other main features of the garden, is pale limestone paving contrasting with the large lawn and gravel, an L-shaped water feature with two jet spouts and carefully placed lighting to highlight the mature yew trees and laurels. The limestone pavers are also used to create a geometric pattern cut into the lawn to take the eye down the garden to the childen's play area.

"An L-shaped water feature with two jet spouts and carefully placed lighting to highlight the mature yew trees and laurels".