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When it came to designing her own garden, landscape designer Kate Patterson of KPLA had a few things to include in her ‘self-brief’. The garden needed room for children and animals to roam, spaces for entertaining as well as relaxing, and a pool! (Kate was outvoted on the veggie patches.)

The resulting family garden is tiered with layers of verdant greenery inside and out, balancing internal courtyards with a lush backyard at the rear.

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Simone Haag is best known as one of Melbourne’s most in-demand interiors gurus – but before she was a professional taste-maker, Simone spent years working around the world as a snowboard instructor!

While we’re usually profiling Simone’s fabulous design and styling projects on TDF, today she’s taking us around some of her favourite spots to stay, eat, drink and hang out in Mount Buller and Mansfield. Just in time for the snow season to start again on June 22nd!

There comes a time in most family homes where the outdoor play equipment is outgrown, and the surrounding garden is in need of a little TLC. It was at this familiar stage that Kate Seddon Landscape Design was brought on to design a Hawthorn garden for a growing family and their now young adult children.

Kate’s design sees a disused trampoline and spa replaced with a sophisticated planting and material scheme, inspired by both Japanese and Danish gardens. This lush and inviting outdoor area is now a seasonally changing retreat for the owners, representing a new phase in their family’s life.