Garden Design

Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Your Landscape Design

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Landscape Design

After the excitement of landscape design and the final product wears off, you may find yourself spending less time tinkering in your yard than you should. You may begin to neglect pulling the weeds out as often as you should, or you might not spare a thought for the outdoor furniture wasting away in your fresh new patio area.

Neglecting your new landscaping according to divinelandscapes.com.au is one of the worst things you can do for yourself, your family, and your property. As most landscaping experts will tell you, it’s one of your property’s most significant assets. Look after it, or the following might happen…

It Could Bring Down Your Home’s Value

First impressions count for a lot in real estate, and failure to maintain your gardens and invest in your landscaping can bring your value down significantly. It can even have more of an impact than you think. Overseas experts suggest that landscaping can account for a return-on-investment between 100 percent and 1,000 percent. That’s a lot of money just by taking the time to look after the backyard you may have spent hours creating.

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Yacht Design

Yacht Design – White Rabbit Golf

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Award winning Sam Sorgiovanni Designs are at the forefront of the internal design of the amazing 84 metre superyacht, White Rabbit Golf, as well as the external design. Other accolades for the White Rabbit Golf are that of being

  • one of the largest trimaran superyachts in the world,
  • the largest one to be built in Australia,
  • the largest aluminium superyacht in the world
  • the first diesel electric superyacht to be built in Australia

The White Rabbit Golf will accommodate up to 28 guests in supreme luxury with plenty of room left over for the 36 crew members.  The interior design is everything you would expect in a vessel designed by Sorgiovanni,  one of the world’s leading yacht designers who has travelled the world to design or collaborate on the design of super yachts in many different countries.  With sumptuous entertainment and play areas not to mention dining and living quarters, the guests will be able to relax and simply enjoy their surroundings or sunbathe on the teak decks, enjoying the view.

With a cruising speed of 84 kn and a range of 5,000 nm, this luxury yacht will easily be able to leave the harbour for any number of distant destinations for the enjoyment of those aboard her.

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Kitchen Design

Kitchen Design and Feng Shui

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Kitchen Design

The most important room in your house is the kitchen. For that reason, the Feng Shui perspective needs to be honoured. Preparation of food to provide nourishment and a healthy and balanced life for the occupants of the home happens in the kitchen. While mixing Moses and the Old Testament with Feng Shui may seem out of balance, follow the ten commandments of kitchen design set up to ensure you have harmonious and positive energy  flow.

Commandment 1

The Light in your Kitchen

If you have a light and airy kitchen, then people will want to linger there as they find it a happy place to be.

Fact is that the longer the time spent in the kitchen, the more careful we are with how we prepare and cook the meals.

Commandment 2

Don’t make your kitchen an obstacle course

You want energy and flow in and around your modern kitchen, so make sure there are no obstacles. Kitchens usually have that square design with cupboards and sink and appliances making it a sharp room with angles that do not promote positive chi. Therefore, it’s not a good idea to create more obstacles by placing tables, island units, and block benches in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Commandment 3

Beware of Poison Arrows

Poison arrows are a bit like the furniture mentioned in the previous commandment. They are outward pointing angles of 90 degrees that hinder the flow of energy. Hide or disguise your poison arrows.

Commandment 4

Your Kitchen should not be seen from the front door

When you walk in the front door and you can see your kitchen, you are more than likely going to make a beeline for the fridge.

Ideally your kitchen should be well away from your front door.

Commandment 5

Don’t make your kitchen an obstacle course

Aim for a clutter free kitchen

When we talk about clutter, the whole house should be free of it, not just the kitchen. We mention the kitchen specifically because it has the greatest tendency to gather great amounts of clutter. Don’t think that clutter is rubbish – it isn’t. Clutter is just stuff you don’t need right now.

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Garden Design

Landscape Design and our Future

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Landscape Design

Our time in the outdoors is always something we treasure. It’s a puzzle then as to why we devote so little time to better landscape design.

It’s interesting to work out what value we place on the great outdoors. If you ask people to talk about their visits to cities like Melbourne, Sydney, New York or Paris, and what they liked most about being there, most would answer that their best experiences involved the outdoors. Memories of a city visit or a trip into the wild have little in common apart from being outdoors.

Better Lifestyle

Studies by Landscape architects have shown that individuals live a healthier and happier life in areas where they can experience nature and the green urban spaces. Landscaping design of outdoor spaces is one of the cheapest you can do, and provides the highest return on investment. We’re talking about community life, health and wellness as well as the surrounding businesses. More people are making the move back into cities, and green public spaces and colourful streetscapes are attracting factors.

Indoors V Outdoors

In spite of this, we have the tendency to provide greater financial support to buildings and interior decorating than we do to outdoor spaces. Values are set as to how many dollars a square foot costs for buildings, but we don’t apply the same for the outdoors. Isn’t it time we made a strong business case for the landscaping design of outdoor spaces? How can it be done? The first step is to utilise the combined skills of talented landscape designers and architects who are the best able to design and create amazing outdoor areas.

Utilising Landscape Designers

If ever there was a time in history for landscape designers to speak up, then this is it. Landscape design is a profession that works on a holistic basis. They have the ability to interface and mesh the natural environment with the built environment. Give them an inch and they will take the mile in providing leadership for shaping spaces outdoors and also making the public aware of them.

There are virtually hundreds of talented and inspired landscape designers who can lend their vision and design to outdoor spaces.

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Graphic Design

Why A Proper Business Card Design Is Still Important To Your Branding

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Business Card

In these days of online marketing, you may be forgiven for thinking that having a properly designed business card is no longer an important part of your branding. Well you would be wrong. A business card may not have the high-tech appeal of a Facebook page or a YouTube channel but remember, not every business interaction or meeting takes place online.

As a business owner, it is highly likely that you will encounter potential business associates and customers in the world that exists offline. In these scenarios, if your business card is just a boring old piece of card, or worse if you haven’t even bothered to create a business card, you and your business are at a huge disadvantage to those businesses and business owners who have had the foresight to create a business card to use as one of their branding tools.

So now that you know you must have a business card to help brand your business, here are simple rules in terms of its design to ensure it does so effectively.

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Garden Design

Shade Sail Design For Your Business

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Shade Sail Design for Business

When you have a business it is important for your customers to feel welcomed and to be comfortable when they are there.  In a hot climate, shade sails from Shade Sails Perth can be really helpful in keeping the building cooler and reducing the glare from those large shop windows so customers have an enjoyable shopping experience.

There are many advantages to adding a sail to the outside of your business premises.

  • They cut the glare from your display windows, especially good if they are facing west.
  • By throwing shade over display windows, the goods that are on display are protected from excessive heat and from fading; important for clothing displays, or anything else made from fabric that can fade in sunlight.
  • Shade cloth outside can make a pleasant place for customers to wait, or to sit and enjoy their coffee or cold drink if you have a coffee shop.
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House Design

Security Technologies Designed For Your New Home

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security door design

According to the experts, the need for security technology is also increasing with the increasing crime rate. Installing protective doors, windows, fencing, and screens is a rational decision in such instances, especially when you are investing highly in a new home. If you live in areas where crimes occur every other day, install the needed security equipment and protect your home, family, and yourself from harmful incidents.

Security Doors

When the security question arises, people focus a lot on the doors, as they are one of the outlets from which the burglar can enter the house. This is why security doors play a significant role in reducing breaking and entering scenarios and guarding you against such harm. The security door’s material can range from wood and glass to steel and aluminium.

With different materials, there are also different styles of security doors. These comprise sliding security doors, bi-fold security door, hinged security doors and many more. Some doors come with triple lock systems, whereas others protect you from kick-breaking and shoulder-slamming entries. See-thru doors allow fresh air to enter your house without compromising on security.

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Garden Design

4 Ideas to Make Your Landscaping Pop

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Landscaping Designs

Proper landscaping around your home enhances the street appeal, makes it more attractive and utilises all those small or narrow spaces that are otherwise never used.  By using your imagination and thinking outside the box you will be able to make every part of your garden and lawn look amazing and get the best use out of it all instead of only some of it. Even narrow or very shady parts at the side of the home can be renovated so that they look wonderful instead of like the town dump.

Here are 4 landscape ideas to make your Landscape Design pop.

  1. Add a water feature – there are many water features that do not take much effort or skill to install. Even a small backyard will rock with a water feature installed on the fence or wherever you want it. You can even have one on the back deck. Water features can be as simple as a half a wine keg filled with water, a plant and a fish. It can be a column topped with a glistening ball, a waterfall running into a pool, a statue with a spray of water coming from it or a set of three tipped up buckets that water drips out of. Simple or complicated, water in the garden will certainly make it pop.
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Garden Design

Garden Design

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Garden Design

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned garden mаkеоvеr, plants here, paths there, turf over the main area, оr a more creative landscaping job that garden landscapers just love to do. Well, that’s what they tell us and hope we believe. Garden landscapers are real outdoors-type blokes, tanned legs and arms that are always exposed to the sun, and they are a hardy breed of men who were probably seen more often hanging off scaffolding structures making suggestive remarks tо lаdіеѕ раѕѕіng іn the streets bеlоw. Well, they used to, but it’s politically incorrect to do that. As that famous singer pointed out, the tіmеѕ they are a-сhаngіng.

Landscaper’s Knowledge

A properly qualified garden landscaper needs to be a bit more than a person that builds a few garden beds and fills a few planters. It’s a competitive business and customers are looking for an expert who can transform their yards into something that will grace the front cover of Better Homes and Gardens. Fountains, ponds, and waterfalls are common enough requests from homeowners looking for a nice, peaceful place in which they can relax after work.

His Assistants

The garden landscaper is more like a technician now, a person who needs specific skills and certainly a lot more knowledge with regard to irrigation, garden lighting, pond and waterfall formation, water pumps and of course, the most suitable plants and lawn to put into your garden for the very best effects. The best landscapers are able to call on other trades as required such as electricians, horticulturists, fencing contractors and they need to know all about the garden machinery that is used to make your garden dream turn into reality.

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