Three very modern houses, we call them the ‘shoeboxes’ in Tivoli Villas, Cheltenham, with three very different gardens

Clean cut lines with porcelain paving and inset astroturf. Cedar cladding, to cover the brick walls so typical of a Cheltenham garden, accentuates the linear design.

Introducing angles with a central bed, the whole area covered with a Millboard recycled decking, with furniture and planters to match the grey steel in the building itself.

Breaking it all up with this chessboard paving effect, with racked fibreglass planters and water feature, to create an almost ‘shop window’ effect, opposite the long glass frontage of the house.