Outdoor space designed with the same rigour as the building it surrounds — grading, planting, shade and water treated as part of the brief rather than as decoration applied at the end.
On a Cyprus site the landscape does real work. It manages sun, wind, privacy and water, and it decides whether the terrace is used in August or admired through glass.
Slope, aspect, wind, existing planting and what the neighbours can see. These decide more about an outdoor space than any style does.
You end up withSite read and constraintsWhere you will eat, where the sun needs blocking at four in the afternoon, whether a lawn is worth its water. The honest version of this conversation saves a great deal later.
You end up withBrief for the outdoor spaceLevels, planting, shade and materials are resolved together — a terrace at the wrong level and a tree in the wrong place are both expensive to move.
You end up withLandscape design and planting planDrainage, irrigation and hard landscape are detailed for the contractor, and coordinated with the building's own drainage.
You end up withConstruction details and schedulesDesigning the outside alongside the inside is the only time the levels can still agree.
Slope is a landscape problem as much as a structural one, and the two answers should be designed together.
Shade and orientation are fixable — usually with less building work than people expect.
Planting and irrigation designed around real maintenance rather than aspiration.
C.F.L. has been designing and delivering buildings from Limassol since 2009 — long enough to know how the local authorities read a set of drawings.
Design, engineering, permits and inspection under one roof means one number to call when something needs deciding — and nobody able to point at somebody else.
Levels, drainage and thresholds are agreed with the architecture instead of negotiated against a finished house.
A planting scheme is a running cost. We say what yours will need before it is planted, not after.
Timings depend on the plot, the size of the building and how quickly the authorities respond. Ask us for a schedule against your specific project.
€600 – €2,000
The range covers most projects of this kind. Your exact fee depends on the plot, the building and the scope, and is set out in a written proposal before work starts.
A single-storey house on an open plot in Kalavasos, planned around its pool and shaded terraces under white roof planes.
Three apartments above a garage cut into the slope; white frames, fins and planted balconies give the building its face.
A two-storey house in Erimi: a ground floor open to the garden and pool, bedrooms in a white volume above.
Five multi-level houses on one site in Germasogeia, each with its own entrance, parking and outdoor space, in one language.
“Most of what people ask us in the first meeting is answered in here. Read it first — then the meeting can be about your project rather than the basics.”
How to make a terrace usable in August, what planting costs in water, which shade strategies work on this island, and the level decisions that have to be made before the house is built.
Get your free eBookConcept to photorealistic walkthrough, before a single wall is built.
Structural drawings and calculations produced in-house, coordinated with the architectural design from day one.
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems designed with the architecture, not bolted on afterward.
