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Garden Design Process and Services

Designing Gardens That Inspire & Enrich Your Life & Wellbeing

Turn your outdoors into a space that inspires, restores, and elevates your lifestyle. Serendipity Garden Designs creates timeless gardens across the Northern Rivers, Tweed Coast & Hinterland, Byron Bay, and the Gold Coast.

Designer Carmel blends your vision with beautiful, natural materials and native plants to boost biodiversity, create habitat, and deliver a garden that’s uniquely yours.

DESIGN PROCESS

1. Consultation

Carmel, at Serendipity Garden Designs, looks forward to discussing your ideas and specific site requirements. During the Garden Design consultation, she will actively engage with you to explore your style preferences, essential design elements, budget, and timeline. This consultation, which lasts between 1 and 1.5 hours, does incur a fee. Following the meeting, you will receive a detailed design fee proposal via email for your review.

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2. Concept Design

While collaborating with you, Carmel will develop a Concept Landscape Design Plan. Your input and feedback are crucial in crafting the best possible design for your garden. This plan will include a scaled black and white landscape concept plan, planting schedule, and material choices.

At this stage, you will have the opportunity to make any necessary adjustments to ensure the design meets your needs.

3. Documentation

Not all landscape construction projects require Council approval. Carmel will assess the need for approval based on your vision for the outdoor space during the Concept Design stage. If your project does require approval, she will inform you during the initial consultation or the Concept Design stage. Carmel will clearly communicate any additional fees for documentation, private certifiers, and/or Local Council requirements. Please note that Development Applications are billed separately from the concept plan and depend on your Local Council’s submission requirements.

4. Construction & Maintenance

Once Carmel finalises your design and secures the necessary approvals, we will bring your new space to life. At Serendipity Garden Designs, I work closely with a skilled team of Landscape Contractors to transform your vision into a beautiful garden and outdoor space. Additionally, I will help you engage the right professionals to ensure that your garden design is constructed to the highest standards.

Imagine your garden…