Yarralumla

At the centre is a full-length lap pool, wrapped by a signature curved fence of white vertical battens that ripples along the pool edge, a compliant barrier that became the garden's sculptural centrepiece.

The planting is layered and silver-toned to sit against the dark cladding: dichondra spilling over walls, westringia, cushion bush and grasses, threaded with established maples that carry the garden into autumn. Decomposed-granite paths, exposed-aggregate and stepping stones connect the arrival, the pool terrace and the rear garden.

One team, one contract. We designed the scheme, built the pool and hardscape, installed the planting and irrigation, and managed every approval and trade from first excavation to final handover.

How it came together

The home set the bar: dark standing-seam cladding against crisp white, and a pool that had to read as part of the architecture rather than an add-on. The barrier regulations, usually the thing that fights a pool garden, became the opportunity — a compliant fence resolved as the sculptural centrepiece of the whole site.

Design, construction and management ran as one contract. We designed the whole-of-site scheme, built the pool and the hardscape, installed the planting and irrigation, and managed every approval and trade from first excavation to final handover — so the fence, the terrace and the planting arrived as one idea, not three.

The planting was chosen to be silver-toned against the dark cladding and climate-resilient by default: a garden that is quietly spectacular in autumn and asks very little the rest of the year.