No. 73 Backyards · English Cottage
Sunken Brick Fire Pit with Curved Seating
A circular brick fire pit with curved stone bench seating anchors this English cottage garden, framed by flowering foxgloves, climbing roses, boxwood hedges, and a stone cottage behind a white picket fence.
Design notes
English cottage design is abundance with a plan. Look for brick, flagstone or gravel paths that give the eye a route, borders packed with roses, foxgloves, lavender, catmint and delphiniums, and a little structure from clipped box, a picket fence or an arbour. Materials are aged — reclaimed brick, painted timber, weathered stone — and there is always somewhere to sit: a bench under a tree, a bistro table by the door.
What to look for
- How the space is zoned — dining, lounging, lawn, planting
- Sightlines from the back door to the furthest feature
- Layers of privacy: canopy, screening, structure
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