Complete landscaping service
Great Spaces is a one-stop landscape design and construction service ready to advise, plan, and manage your landscaping project from start to finish.
- Landscape consultation
- Brief development
- Concept design and planting plans
- Site demolition and waste removal
- Hard landscaping construction
- Soft landscaping
- Start-to-finish project management
We deliver landscape services to answer the diverse needs and requirements of Melbourne’s homeowners, architects, developers, schools, and urban planners. We also work with other award-winning landscape architects to execute their designs with impressive results.
Qualified, collaborative, and adaptable
We bring all the skills, qualifications, and experience to deliver your project to the highest standards of construction and compliance on time and within budget.
We’re across all the required building codes, permits, and permissions, and we engage and manage all outside suppliers and trades involved to deliver your project with skill and precision. Most uniquely, our landscape design experts are always on-site as part of the construction team, so you only need to deal with one point of contact.
Clients may change their minds as a project progresses, or new site conditions may require a different approach. We adapt quickly and react to new requests or changes in real time, an approach that our clients appreciate and that makes us more agile than most.
Entertaining spaces
From outdoor kitchens for al fresco dining to fences and decks around the pool.
Natural spaces
From free-flowing native landscapes to water features or mouth-watering edible gardens.
Public spaces
From paths through parks to shopping strips or commercial landscapes.
Sustainable spaces
From underground rainwater tanks to water saving, programmable irrigation systems.
Play spaces
From sports fields to places of discovery or safe playgrounds for early learners.
Private spaces
From green, screened, quiet courtyards to a pergola over your private sanctuary.
Streamlined process
Our efficient process enables us to deliver landscaping and construction to match your vision on time and within budget.
It involves checking in and signing off at each stage to ensure we stay on track to deliver the space you want. Whether your project is big or small, there are four basic stages.
1. Consultation, brief and design
Our process begins with an initial client consultation to understand what you desire from the space and develop the design brief—which we share with you to ensure we’re all on the same page. From this brief, we develop landscape concept designs, planting plans, and working construction drawings where required.
Not all projects require formal design drawings. On smaller jobs, we can agree on the brief and design just by listening and discussing ideas directly with you. In either case, once the final design is agreed upon, we can provide an accurate quote and timeline to complete the project.
2. Site preparation
Upon signing off on the design and quote, we commence groundwork for hard landscaping. Depending on the site, this may involve demolition and removal of existing structures or excavation to define correct levels. Existing water, gas, electricity, or sewer lines passing through the site must be mapped and factored into the works.
Any plumbing, pipes, cables, or conduits required to service the finished design must be planned for and installed before hard landscaping.
3. Hard landscaping
Hard landscaping is the construction of features made from bricks, stone, concrete, steel, and timber. These are the underlying structures that form the basis for your landscape. Our residential designs frequently include decks, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, retaining walls, paving, water features, lighting, garden beds, fencing, irrigation systems, drainage, fire pits, and concrete rendering. We also specialise in rain-water catchment and conventional and underground water tanks.
In parks and public spaces, hard landscaping may involve chain-link fences, tan tracks, play equipment, shade structures, BBQ areas, toilet blocks, or irrigation. All hard landscaping is delivered to the specifications outlined in your concept design and construction drawings.
4. Soft landscaping
Soft landscaping is the soft or living element of your design, such as soil, flowering plants, shrubs, and trees. It also includes ground coverings such as bark or turf, both natural and synthetic. Our plants are lovingly bedded according to best horticultural practices and align with your overall design and planting plans. We use planting as structural elements to create privacy, shelter, shade, and sunlight in the right places. We also consider seasonal colour and diversity to ensure your space looks great through spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
We take pride in our work
At Great Spaces, we take pride in what we do and follow a thorough process for all projects. Whether you need a simple lawn, a quality design, residential landscaping, or something else, you can rest assured that our team will do a great job that produces results you love.
