A first home together, and a fresh new start for this 1950s home with a dramatically terraced rear garden, hot tub and multiple seating areas with heated benches and space for plenty of conviviality. Three outdoor rooms came together: on the top level, Australian tree ferns, Euphorbias and Phormiums bring low water and easy care. On the hot tub deck, Agonis and Fatsia screen for privacy, and in the lowest area cosy seating is cooled on a hot day with silvery Agave attenuata ‘Nova’, Aeoniums, grasses and olive trees.