Bronte Project Featured
House & Garden Magazine
Thrilled to see this cute coastal project featured on the cover and within this month’s House & Garden magazine.
At the edge of a sea-salted breeze and beneath the ever-watching sky, we reshaped this coastal home’s backyard into a gentle place of pause and connection. A garden not just for looking at, but for living in.
A wide curve of formed concrete now anchors the space, its arc a quiet invitation to sit, linger and stay a while. We softened its strength with layered textiles: thick seat cushions and a tumble of throw pillows, comfort woven into the contours of hardscape.
This is a space made for movement and stillness alike. Where the smell of something grilled wafts on the breeze from a built-in barbecue. Where a plunge spa waits under a lockable cover for the moment someone feels like slipping beneath the surface. Shaped like an arch, the spa is scaled for small gardens but generous enough for four or six to stretch out under the stars. It holds warmth efficiently, yet is so indulgent and luxurious.
As day folds into dusk, a remote-controlled central fireplace becomes the gravitational pull. Its heat holds everyone close, even as the evening cools and temperatures drop. This is a place that lets you live outdoors all year round, under sun or stars, in joy or retreat.
Underfoot, crazy paving is wild, textural and imperfect, grounding the space in its coastal story. Along the garden’s edges, a bold cast of characters holds space: Euphorbia ingens, Howea forsteriana (craned in like sculpture), Banksia integrifolia, Pittosporum 'Miss Muffet', Sansevieria congo, Kalanchoe beharensis, Aloe arborescens and Cotyledon macrantha. Together, they speak in silhouettes and textures, succulent, spiked, soft-edged and always interesting.
This is not just a garden. It is a backdrop for slow rituals and spontaneous laughter, for bodies warmed by fire and water, for the quiet joy of being together and being still.
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Collaboration with Garden Life
A Design Dialogue Between Garden Life and Adam Robinson Design