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Garden Screening / Privacy Ideas

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1. Aluminium

The back of this Clerkenwell penthouse is facing a commercial office block and so screening was needed on 2 levels. The balcony outside the living room was planted with evergreen Pittosporum in an architectural planter which allows some light through its void. The entrance hall and bedrooms were screened using a sliced aluminium sheet which was then powder coated. The air conditioning units were concealed with a pattern of small square holes allowing air flow. The posts were powder coated in a darker colour to create definition and contrast, while the central section can be opened to provide an emergency exit.

2. Cedar louvers

This Parsons Green residence is facing South Park and its tennis courts. The fourth outdoor space is a small and sunny roof terrace outside the master bedroom. The client had carried an extensive renovation and installed a hot tub on the terrace. With neighbours on 2 sides and the park on the third screening was essential. I created a Western red cedar arbour to add definition ad human scale and to the sides of it low screens of louvered slats. We doweled each slat top and bottom so that they became movable giving the client the option to allow more or less light into the space as and when needed. The cedar is light weigh, looks great with the slate coping and stainless steel light fittings and merges with the cedar in the hot tub elevation.

3. Cedar cladding

Here I was able to mill the cedar into 3 sizes and create a repeating dynamic pattern within each of the 1 metre bays. This north London courtyard is at end of terrace and as such requires privacy as well security. The existing vertical hit-and-miss fence was painted a dark purple colour, while the horizontal cedar provides a sharp contrast and adds height. The posts supporting the cladding are also in cedar and the fixings used are stainless steel nails to prevent the cedar reacting with mild steel. The nails are swollen by the cedar hence hidden, fired by a small gas-operated finishing gun.

4. Hardwood cladding

This small Parsons Green patio was in a truly dilapidated state when I first arrive there. It not only required screening from the neighbours but also a solution for a boundary brick wall which was falling apart. To avoid having to rebuild the wall at a huge cost, we repaired it and built a hardwood cladding wall in balau. As the brick wall was incredibly uneven the wood frame was able to create a completely flush and plum surface at a small space sacrifice. The hardwood cladding is warm in tone, structurally robust and enabled us to link it to a bench seat along one corner of the patio.

5. Cedar trellis

Western red cedar is such beautiful material – it is light, easy to work with and versatile. Here in South Kensington the roof terrace is exposed to dozens of overlooking windows and so cedar was used extensively to enclose the whole space. As the distance to the overlooking windows is fairly long I could detail the gaps between the boards greater than usual. In turn this allows sunlight to create beautiful shadows on the terrace.