11 Millicent St, Burwood.

spacesplaces — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:32:50 +0000

11 Millicent St Burwood, is located adjacent the inner eastern suburbs of melbourne. Camberwell, Hawthorn, Malvern, Toorak and Glen Iris are right on your doorstep. For a business targeting high end projects, this is the ideal location to be situated in.

The LAND

The land area is around 600 sqm! There is plenty of parking space for your customers or staff. You can park a truck, a bobcat or excavator along the side of the building, behind a secure gate. At the rear of the property, a large covered area awaits your TREASURED items for storage. Ideally suited for a landscaper or pool builder, you can keep or your materials and pipes in a safe covered area. Staff can access it to load their utes up in morning and still get to job site before 7am!

Inside, currently comprises of large warehouse space. Used for storing materials and valuable tools and lite fabrication. The presentation room is great for taking your clients through the designs of their projects, going over drawings and materials to be used. A collection of suppliers materials and specification manuals is right on hand to pull out to show them to seal the deal!

Adminstration, project management, and the design team take up the rear offices. Phones, faxes, internet connect and wireless wifi are ready to go. The good old magnetic white board is the hub of operations – see all your current clients, new ones, potential sales, project status etc. Keep your customer files in the filing cabinet, your books and resources right above your head, and the phones right at your fingure tips.

Both Male and Femail toilets and kitchen facilites are ready to go for your staff to get to work straight away. Use the amenities that are there or update to suit your own needs.

The lease is CHEAP. There is nothing on the market anywhere near by that is priced this well. If you are serious about impressing your clients, running a well oiled business machine, all close to the most desirable suburbs in Melbourne, 11 Millicent St is the place to establish your business.

Call James Craig -0416 066 010 to discuss the posibilities of moving into this great location.

Landscape Design Melbourne – Carlton Project

seo — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:12:46 +0000

This project which is located in Carlton is what an outdoor room is all about ! The clients came to us with a simple suggestion to “make me a cafe feeling alfresco that is warm and inviting all year round”. As big coffee drinks and lovers of alfresco dining, they really wanted something that was similar to what Carlton offers in terms of a cafe feeling room. With this brief we developed the followin concept design and ultimately the construction of the project.

Existing site

The existing property is what you would expect from a house in the Carlton area – small compact courtyard. There really wasn’t muchroom too move around let alone to build an alfresco area. So we hit the drawing boards and came up with four concepts for our clients.

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3

Concept 4

Final Concept

As well as offering four concepts to our clients we also produce a final concept. The final concept at times incorporates different elements from the various other concept designs. For this particular project the client really loved concept four and opted to go for that design with minor tweaks and alterations.

Completed Project

The completed alfresco entertainment area which was inspired by concept 4 includes Cantilevered roof with GLOSSWOOD timber lining, sky lights, an outdoor kitchen with running cold/hot water, HEATGLOW outdoor radiant heaters to name a few. The whole area is warm and inviting that can be enjoyed all year round regardless of weather conditions.

Landscape Design Melbourne – Malvern Project

seo — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:03:00 +0000

Landscape Design Melbourne.

Landscaping your property can be a daunting task! Where to begin? Most us come by the need for some type of landscaping to surround our homes with a garden setting. What goes into that garden setting is up to you. You might be looking for a plant filled oasis that you can potter about in all weekend, or maybe you want to entertain family and friends. You might want to put a pool or a putting green in, or highlight some beautiful sculpture that you picked up on your overseas travels. Spaces and Places specialise in Landscape Design Melbourne.

This project we are going to have a look at is in Melbourne’s inner east suburbs. The family decided that instead of moving to a new bigger home, they would renovate to accommodate for the now teenage kids needing a bit more space. The new renovation meant that the house wrapped around the back garden with all of its windows looking into the space. Unfortunately the space was tired and uninspiring.

The dog especially has to be given consideration in a landscape design, after all he is part of the family – and probably the one who is going to use the space the most!

The family started the process thinking that they wanted a pool, but quickly discovered that an ordinary pool was going to take up a lot of valueable space. They really wanted more entertaining and garden area.

This is typically the landscape design process. The team at Spaces and Places love to give you options, we want you to be involved in the design process. That is why we start off by giving you 4 different designs to consider – all of them based around your brief.

After we have been through the landscape design processes – the conceptual designs, we started to get serious about finalising the design towards the end product. The beauty of working in 3D, means that we can show you what we are trying to achieve with your design.

The following picture demonstrates this well.

You can see in this photo that what was once going to be a small swimming pool, has now been reduced to a large spa. By doing so, the area is now more open to entertaining, BBQ’ing, space for the dog and for the kids and adults to be able to move more freely around the space.

The image below shows the size of the spa. Large enough to be to float around in and relax on a hot day. The day bed at the rear of it has a water feature coming subtly from between the timbers and wall. This Spa features infloorcleaning – a nice feature to keep your maintenance time down. The landscape design of this space incorporates the notion that the person on the BBQ is not relegated away from the area, but very much part of the hub.

The garden was to designed to be looked onto. The tropical foliage and succulent planting creates a little oasis – in the middle of Melbourne!

Whats new in landscaping

spacesplaces — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:13:45 +0000

Coming up in this section we are going to be looking at a number of different new and exciting elements found in your garden. We will look at sustainable options for your garden such as green roofs, green walls, low water use gardens etc. We are going to show you some links to other sites that may be of interest to you.

Green Walls
Green Roofs
succulents for your garden
low water usage irrigation systems