The water-wise garden is designed with different sections, each colour-coordinated with foliage and texture to create varying scenes, and native species are selected to attract wildlife and birds. The house has a private front courtyard landscaped with wattles, grevilleas, and kangaroo paws, and a central courtyard with an outdoor shower and dry river-pebble pond crossed by a recycled railway sleeper bridge.

The main north-facing deck has a timber pergola reminiscent of an old coastal jetty, designed to weather to grey naturally, requiring little maintenance. Coastal references continue in the native grass lawn with bluestone stepping-stones creating the illusion of water around the floating deck. Larger rocks form a miniature escarpment above a swale ‘river’ creating a natural amphitheatre quality to the outdoor dining and firepit.

Rusting reinforcing mesh is used as a trellis around the property, with espaliered eucalypts providing screening and dappled light whilst maximising the planted area of the site. The property has become a biophilic haven for wildlife, with frogs, skinks, echidnas and even a wombat and koala visiting the site.