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9 Ropere Street, Kumeu

Here is what we have envisioned to do around the house and would appreciate if you can come and give us a quote. 1. Front Garden... We have our own current front lawn and the council piece. This is solid clay and we were thinking of have the clay scooped out and replaced with decent top soil. We will have to keep the council bit of lawn and probably want to replace this with Kukuyo and tidy up around the tree. Where our front lawn is we would like to cast some stepping stones to the front door and straighten out the driveway... see my scribbles. Then we also want to cast a concrete path along the front of the house from the new stepping stones to the gate on the right hand side. Also add a post box. The grass we want to replace with natural plants including 2 or 3 trees which will give shade in the winter and possibly some natural grasses and other shrubs that won't need too much water or maintenance. 2. At the back of the house... We have a very small L shaped piece of lawn which is also not working. Most of the back is covered by decking. the lawn in winter hardly gets sun so it is more a pain in the butt than anything else. We also have the wonderful lid of the stormwater tank at the same height as the current decking. So we were thinking of lower this by cutting the neck shorter and then extending the deck out to the wall over it - obviously with an access hatch. See scribbles on photo. The deck extension is like a t sticking out the width of the bedroom door with a very simple water feature at the end where it meets the wooden fence. The L shape is then split into a long narrow bit and the short corner piece where the tree is currently planted. The idea for this is to box it into the same height as the decking and fill it with good topsoil again. This will save us from having to dig out the clay at the back to try and grow anything in it. I have seen an idea at Westgate shopping centre that could work... Along the fence, we grow a high hedge covering the fence, with a second lower shrub hedge broken by rusted pots with trees in front of the neighbour's windows giving us some privacy. See photo attached. The part left then has very simple grasses that need no cutting. The water feature could be very simple with a rectangular bottom and spouts coming our the wall. So we would like to view this project in a couple of steps. The planning and hard landscaping split into the back and front garden. And then the soft landscaping like the planting etc. The above is pretty detailed but open to suggestions... You guys are the experts after all.