Businesses
Commercial outdoor design
Outdoor space design for offices, hotels, hospitality, care homes, co-working and schools across Derby and the East Midlands. Practical, style-neutral and shown in 3D before build decisions.
What you get
- Brief aligned to usersStaff, guests, residents or pupils — access, maintenance and how the space needs to work day to day.
- Design shown in 3DClear visuals for stakeholders who will never walk a drawing set. Layout and materials agreed before procurement.
- Drawings for pricing and set-outScale technical information your contractor or partner team can use. We design and plan; we do not build.
How we work
About half of our work is commercial outdoor space. Dapplegrove is design and planning only. Build and aftercare go through trusted, vetted partners. Style follows the brief — we are not locked to one look.
Example (anonymised)
Commercial outdoor · East Midlands
Workplace courtyard refresh
- Challenge
- Under-used outdoor area with poor seating layout and unclear routes for staff breaks.
- Design response
- Simple zoning for seating, planting and circulation; durable materials suited to daily use; reviewed in 3D with the client team.
- Deliverables
- Concept layout, 3D views and scale drawings for partner pricing.
- Outcome
- A shared design pack stakeholders could approve without site jargon.
Client and site details withheld.
Designing a home garden instead? See private garden design.
