You bought this house with your future garden in mind. The minute you saw that wide strip of lawn you knew what it is going to be – a garden, even if you were not sure at the time whether to go for vegetables or for flowers, being as most people are inclined at times towards beauty and at times towards their immediate health and kitchen convenience. What you were nevertheless sure of was that you have the skills and creativity to transform it in the center of your home, where to spend sheltered the few hours of leisure for cultivating your hobby.

Any improvement involves some work and definitely some amount of cash; therefore, you are justified in asking if what you get is worth what you put in. No matter the type of garden that suits you, this piece of greenery will allow you to get in touch with nature while staying at home. Besides, it is your ticket to health, as modest as it seems. You may want to eat healthily and plant some vegetables; for them to grow you’ll have to sweat some, without having to go to fitness classes or jogging in front of your neighbors. If sweating is not quite your thing after work, you can limit yourself to herbs.

Moreover, this is like growing children: you create something and help it to develop. It’s not only the sense of ownership, but the happy feeling of designing something useful and pleasurable. Your imagination, your skills will be needed and used, and both the process and the end result will be to your benefit. You’ll have the occasion to act as a project manager: conceive and execute through stages your concept, from the beginning to the end.

If these arguments do not seem judicious enough to make from your garden the core of your life, and you would be more tempted by comfort than exertion or exercise, why not try a flower garden? You do not have to consume the result of your hands; you may just look at it and take it in. Beauty has a quieting effect and helps the mind to rest. Surrounded by the smells of your flowers and their gratuitous beauty, you’ll be able to find detachment and comfort at home, to think at ease or just enjoy the quiet so difficult to find in other places.

When buying the house, you knew implicitly that you wanted your garden, once you decide on the type, the garden center waits for you with the seeds of the nourishing or lovely things you have in mind. Either for working outdoors for the benefit of your health or for enjoying sunny days surrounded by congenial plants, the garden may be the reason attracting you back from office, becoming the center of your home.

An Atelier garden studio is a subtle exercise in balance between aesthetics and function, between attention to high technology and natural materials and the effect on their surroundings.