This year at MUD has been big; surprising, challenging, at times messy (muddy!) and completely enjoyable! Thank you to our clients We'd like to extend our thanks and gratitude to the most important component in our business; our clients. With their awesome design briefs, vision, hard-earned money and trust in us we’ve been able to [...]
This renovation and backyard landscape design was a collaboration between Mark's design skills and the owners build ability. MUD's role in the renovations was to conceptually design both the internal layout of the residence and update the landscape. The challenge faced on this site was to transform the significant slope into usable space while keeping costs [...]
Our brief was to design a Singaporean style garden suitable for the Australian climate. A Singapore-based Australian family of five engaged Novocastrian small businesses to extensively renovate the interior of an original Merewether miner’s cottage on Buchanan Street, a place they have lovingly dubbed The Hideaway. Their favourite space is the Singapore-inspired garden, created by [...]
Continuing from our last post, for those of you interested in sustainable design and have a small space to work with, read on to discover some of the ways MUD tackled these design constraints right down to beautiful details such as the inclusion of a small hole in the recycled timber for a local robin [...]
Every plant in her garden is edible! “A lot of people think you need a large space to have an edible garden, this is a great example of how smart design can create a great space and lots of gardens without taking up too much valuable space,” Mark says. Read on to discover how MUD [...]