Simply, it’s a one-stop home, office and garden design store

Simply, it’s a one-stop home, office and garden design store

Dwelling Simply just operator GRAHAM HOLBROOK says the boutique retail keep in Pialligo gives whole interior and exterior layout providers, together with home styling, landscape consultation, style build and maintenance products and services. 

Residing Simply just has developed and expanded above the past 30 decades from a business, indoor, plant-employ the service of corporation to today’s detailed assortment of indoor-outdoor decorator and feature vegetation, decor pots, drinking water features and back garden furniture.

From still left, interior designer Gary Ertl, owner Graham Holbrook and landscape designer Robert Kimpton.

Graham states he’s happy to have designers Robert Kimpton and Gary Ertl on his staff, offering shoppers with their merged experience of a lot more than 60 years in landscaping and interior style. 

“In conditions of the back garden and landscaping, Dwelling Merely is a a single-prevent shop. There’s not substantially we just can’t handle,” claims Robert, who is in demand of design, upkeep and horticultural consulting. 

Owning analyzed horticulture at Melbourne University, Robert says he has intended and constructed additional than 75 gardens in Victoria, before relocating to Canberra in 2020. 

“I provide landscape design as properly as a consulting services in which I can come out to people’s gardens and respond to inquiries and help fix the problems they might be dealing with in their gardens,” he claims. 

“Some of these challenges may possibly be drainage or deciding on the correct vegetation for a hedge. I provide a extensive report to the consumer,” he says. 

Robert claims that apart from the way of life rewards of savoring a lovely backyard, there are tangible financial benefits, far too. 

“Studies have been undertaken that present that the garden of a house can be valued as giving up to 10 for each cent of the total assets price. So it is essential for my function to protected people’s expenditure,” he says. 

Inside and exterior designer Gary Ertl moved to Canberra this calendar year, and delivers a prosperity of encounter from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and London. 

Gary states that his qualified target at Living Simply is on the interiors, possibly at house or the office environment, together with plant hire as very well as scaled-down and far more personal spaces this kind of as balconies and courtyards. 

“A whole lot of my position is the trouble-resolving element of the room. I’m usually wanting at how I can evolve a space into one thing attractive,” he states. 

“Even in the cold Canberra winter, we enormously worth the out of doors place and we will need to see the outdoors as critical in a residence as a kitchen area,” he states. 

Gary states that in excess of his 35 decades in layout, his ethos is to remain inside the client’s price range and to style successfully. He claims he enjoys doing work with his purchasers to create their eyesight.

“My work is to get the client’s vision on observe,” says Gary. 

Graham says that at the coronary heart of anything he and the workforce provide at Dwelling Merely is the appreciation and regard for “biophilia”, which is outlined as an psychological and actual physical relationship among humans and mother nature. 

“Combining point out-of-the-art inside style, landscape layout and innovative horticulture techniques, Living Only satisfies the biophilic requirements that are crucial to human wellbeing and connection,” suggests Graham. 

Living Simply, 10 Beltana Road, Pialligo. Simply call 6249 1552 or stop by livingsimply.com.au

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