Composite decking and garden landscaping in Tring

Tring

A Golden Oak Millboard terrace, bespoke balustrade and new garden layout completed this contemporary home extension in Tring.

Steve Richardson and Rees De Liege combine practical landscaping experience with careful attention to materials and finishing at S&R Landscapes. This project shows how decking, steps and boundary details can connect a renovated home with its garden.

The extension featured white render and western red cedar cladding. The outdoor space needed a coordinated finish, with a larger terrace and a clear route to the garden below.

A Terrace Designed Around the Home

The homeowners wanted a new decking terrace, suitable steps, a new lawn and fencing, together with work to complete an existing retaining wall. Keeping routine maintenance manageable was an important part of the brief.

The deck’s dimensions were planned around the 3.6-metre board lengths, making efficient use of the material and reducing cutting waste. Its colour was chosen to sit comfortably beside the cedar cladding.

An artificial lawn, new fencing and treated timber retaining sections completed the wider landscaping, bringing the different elements into one scheme.

Golden Oak Decking and a Bespoke Balustrade

The homeowners chose Millboard in Golden Oak for its timber-like appearance and warm colour. Matching boards were used across the deck’s front face, giving the raised terrace a consistent finish.

An Accoya balustrade, finished in grey with Owatrol Solid Colour Stain, introduced a contrasting detail. Decorative metal panels with circular patterns kept views through to the rest of the garden.

The combination of warm decking, grey timber and patterned metal complemented the contemporary extension. For Steve and Rees, careful alignment, cutting and material connections are what bring these individual choices together.

A Small Planting Feature Beneath the Steps

The planting was deliberately restrained. A tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica, and a hart’s-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, created a tucked-away feature beneath the steps.

Their foliage softened the construction without introducing extensive borders. The garden was planned to reduce routine tasks, while cleaning the surfaces and caring for the plants remain part of its upkeep.

Project Details

Location: Tring.
Completed: 2020.
Decking: Millboard in Golden Oak.
Balustrade: Accoya timber with decorative metal panels.
Materials suppliers: Country Supplies and James Latham.
Timber coating: Owatrol.
Panels: Metal Garden Screen.

Planning your garden after an extension? Steve Richardson and Rees De Liege design and professionally landscape gardens in Tring and the surrounding areas, bringing terraces, steps and planting together to suit your home.

Discuss your garden project with Steve and Rees.

Garden design: Karl Harrison.

Our approach

We believe a well-designed garden should be a pleasure to live in, thoughtfully built and made to last.

For us, good design starts with listening. We take time to understand how you want to use your garden, what matters to you and the character of your home.

We bring the same care to construction as we do to design. From the preparation beneath a patio to the finishing details around a border, each part contributes to the quality of the whole garden.

We favour materials suited to their purpose and planting that can thrive in its surroundings. We consider how your garden will mature and how much maintenance you want, creating a space you can enjoy for years to come.

Steve & Rees

Throughout the process he and his team have worked tirelessly to ensure we received the best design, consideration and implementation of our brief.

As a landscaper, he is a professional and did a brilliant job and completed when he said he would in a calm and measured way.

Steve and Rees worked hard in all weathers, to create a beautiful garden for us. I would highly recommend Karl and his team to create some magical for you, and to do it really well.

Rees came up with an imaginative design that has brought interest, variety and colour. The landscaping Steve, Rees and their team did was excellent and they were a pleasure to work with too.

Steve and his team were skilled and friendly, and the results were amazing. They were professional and always left things tidy. Would highly recommend.

Fast efficient service from a passionate professional who puts his competitors to shame. Excellent work at reasonable prices. You’d be mad not to use him.

What a professional garden landscape artist does is give you something that you would never do yourself. Highly recommended.

All the team were exceptionally professional, hardworking, polite and tidy. We are thrilled with the results and thoroughly recommend this business.

I could not have wished for better. I would recommend Rees, Steve and their team to you all. I could not fault them in any way and it was an absolute pleasure to work with them.

Very efficient team, hard workers and really nice people too! Great job with a really uniform finish on a complex-shaped deck. Neat workers, clearing up each evening, and finally leaving my garden and garage in perfect order.

From start to finish-excellent service and he has transformed my garden. I’m now in love with my garden and will be spending many happy hours out there.Before and After pictures - excellent transformation

Very professional, knowledgeable, and friendly. Great design and helpful discussions, making sure we got the best results. Would not hesitate to recommend.

Steve & Rees did an excellent job. From initial design considerations to preparation and installation. The team worked well and on time to transform our garden with Trex decking.

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We adapt to the needs of every client, fluent in a combination of traditional techniques ensuring the hard landscaping works in harmony with the soft planting, garden art and style in your garden.