FACT FILE

THE DETAILS

Caroline and Tim Norris live here with their children, Maya, 19, Stanley, 15, Ted, 14, and Ada, seven. They have a large 30x15m plot belonging to a 1950s five-bedroom house in Hampton, Middlesex.

THE CHALLENGE

The couple were complete garden novices so they needed to spend time researching exactly how best to use their large rectangular plot.

THE PLAN

Caroline says, ‘We wanted to connect the house to the garden and make it a space we could use all year round. We still wanted it to look lovely, but also be a sociable space for entertaining friends and family, and we needed to have storage too.’