From cramped to expansive.
A new-build Warsash garden with barely enough patio space for a table and chairs, rebuilt around a sweeping curved terrace in Valour Beige porcelain, framed in black limestone setts. A stepping-stone path in matching edging and Polar Ice chippings ties it all together, turning one small paved corner into three separate places to sit.
The brief.
A new-build property in Warsash had barely any outdoor space to speak of. A single narrow strip of paving ran along the back door, hardly wide enough for a table and two chairs. Everything else was lawn, with garden tools, bags of aggregate and a wheelbarrow parked along one side.
The brief was simple: give the owners somewhere proper to relax and entertain, without losing the whole garden to hard landscaping.
What we built.
We replaced the single narrow patio with a sweeping curved terrace in Valour Beige porcelain, framed on every edge with black limestone setts for a crisp, deliberate line against the lawn. The curve lets the paving flex around the garden rather than cutting it into a rectangle, so the lawn that remains still reads as generous rather than leftover.
A second patio area was built under a freestanding gazebo further down the garden, giving a shaded spot away from the main terrace. A stepping-stone pathway, also edged in black limestone and finished with Polar Ice decorative chippings, connects the two and leads on to the shed and a run of raised vegetable beds.
The result is three usable areas instead of one small strip: a main terrace by the house, a shaded gazebo patio, and a working path to the shed and beds, none of them fighting each other for space.
Planning something similar nearby? See our work in Warsash, Park Gate and Sarisbury Green.
