Custom aluminium vertical battens at the front of this coastal home make a visual impact on arrival and are the perfect solution to filter light and provide privacy. Continuing all the way inside, the screens pivot open to reveal doors leading to the playroom and living area.

Photography: Louise Roche | Story: Home Beautiful

An exquisite variety of robust, rugged plantings come together in this Mollymook garden. Recycled hardwood sleepers lead to the front door and tree aloes underplanted with star jasmine add drama to the front garden design.

Photography: Prue Ruscoe / Design: Dangar Barin Smith / Story: Belle

Striking seasonal plants means the look of this garden is constantly changing. The sculptural pruned hedges to the front complement the rigid form of the entryway, adding height and visual depth.

Photography: Natalie Hunfalvay / Design: Outdoor Establishments / Story: Inside Out

If you’re after a low maintenance sculptured garden, a landscaping design such as this with plants including Westringia ‘Aussie Box’ and ‘Grey Box’, naturally grow into tight, round balls so you don’t have to clip them into shape.

Photography: Priya Schuback / Design: Budwise Garden Design / Story: Inside Out

Once a barren stretch of lawn, the front garden design of this large Melbourne home has been expertly shaped into a lovely, layered wonderland befitting a special historic home.

Photography: Claire Takacs / Design: Eckersley Garden Architecture / Story: Australian House & Garden

Recognising the potential in an undeveloped garden scored Sydney landscape designer Nicola Cameron her dream family home. The front garden designs include a concrete path and steps weaving through beds of natives in the front garden.

Photography: Natalie Hunfalvay / Story: Australian House & Garden

This seaside garden features natural stone wall cladding in warm and cool tones that blends with the coastal surrounds. These steppers are mini pieces of the main paved area, formed in situ repeating the stone paving.

Photography: Jason Busch / Design: Michael Cooke Garden Design and Nature’s Vision Landscapes / Story: Inside Out

This 1930s Georgian Brick home is surrounded by manicured gardens that boast neatly trimmed hedges and clipped balls, which are framed by red brick inlays.

Photography: Lisa Cohen / Design: Jenny Smith / Story: Belle

This front garden design features straight trunks of peached pair that are emphasised through an expanse of white sandstone paving provide a simplistic and welcoming front yard.

Photography: Jason Busch / Design: Peter Fudge Gardens

The front yard of this Victorian house may not look large, however, the combination of grass pavers, shrubs and succulents add an element of texture to the space.

Photography: Ross Coffey / Story: Belle

Balconies and terraces, which are accented by palm trees and other greenery, wrap around this home in the Gold Coast to further accentuate the crisp lines of Brazilian-style architecture.

Photography: Justin Alexander / Story: Belle

Landscaping in the front garden of this Hampton’s style house in Montauk was achieved with a light touch using indigenous planting and concrete steps.

Photography: Richard Powers / Story: Belle

A bright blue door and elegantly sculpted Chinese juniper hints at the design surprises inside this Victorian terrace in Melbourne.